Wine Dinner Party

2015 was full of parties and great celebrations. A friend of ours contacted me about helping him pull of a surprise party for his wife. We totally pulled it off with the help of Kim and her awesome team at Glory of Zion in Solomon's Porch. It was a dinner party with a few of her closest friends, drinking wine and laughing. We know where the party was held, now let's give a shout out to the awesome photography by Aish Photography. Without her, I wouldn't have the awesome ability to showcase the work of yours truly along with Kim and her team! We also had wine pairing done with each course by The Barrel Room. Each wine was specially chosen by their amazing team. If you're in the area, be sure to schedule a tasting with them. It's pretty special!

We'll start with the invitation. This custom piece was inspired with a Napa Valley feel to it. The fork prongs have wine bottles built into them along with cork and mostly wine colors for a natural feel. Lots of nature browns and burlap were added but it still has an elegant feel.

This is the personalized menu with wine pairing for each course that everyone had on their plate. Mimicking the invitation colors and feel.

Here are the rest of the decorations. All of this was made possible thanks to the help of Kim's team. Barrels were brought in to add to the feel along with wood rounds, grapes, and fresh flowers in crates. The colors were soft. We had a bottle of wine for the guests to sign so that we could give her a memento to cherish for years to come. Also, I cut out circles and had everyone sign them so that we could group them into grapes on a framable art. Here's a photo of the finished art piece of her signed grapes.

The food was SO good. I seriously cannot express this enough. I can't even pick a favorite course because it was all so delicious. The decor change was a huge help to the space!

Nothing is complete without people to celebrate it with the birthday girl! 

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Champagne Themed Thirtieth Birthday Party

"Friends are the family we choose for ourselves." ~Edna Buchanan

So my Chick Pea was going to turn the big three-oh. That's good because she doesn't look a day over 22. Her SIL (you may know her as a writer) and I planned one awesome dinner party with games and a photo area. I have never done a dinner party because I always needed a reason. Well, good thing that's what Chick wanted because I was SO ready with ideas. She wasn't allowed to know about anything with the party. She knew what the invites looked like, and that it was a "fancy dinner", but that's it. This was so hard because she is my go-to gal and when I want to gush about stuff, she's the one I go to....so I didn't talk to her for like a month.

The theme was Champagne. She LOVES champagne so we started thinking of things and searching pinterest....this was VERY hard. Partly because apparently Pinterest thought we wanted to throw a "Great Gatsby" party. No. We just wanted to celebrate. We start with the invites made by More Peas, Please (along with ALL signage seen). These were glitter paper complete with a custom champagne label that had her birth year and place on it. Words on the back.

Next the details. I ordered corks from Amazon to use as place card holders. The same glitter paper was the backing to a bubble border design that I then used on the Menus and signs. The table was set in the middle with Chick at the head. On the table were champagne bottles that I Mod Podged glitter on. (GLITTER EVERYWHERE). Then I bought silk flowers to go inside of them. We had the party at Solomon's Porch at Glory Of Zion. (This place is perfect for weddings to meetings to birthday parties). The Staff there is amazing and came up with an AWESOME Menu. That night we had a very "tuscan" themed menu and it was SO good. The steak was perfect, the alfredo was awesome, the desserts were amazing. I could go on and on about the food, but I am not a foodie blogger so back to the details. The balloons were to mimic bubble hanging all around. The "Bubbly Bar" was awesome with our own little bar tender!

Here's the Dessert table with the Strawberry Champagne cake pops. If I could eat only one thing before I die, it would be those cake pops. We had wine, champagne, beer and gelato. Tiramisu and plain vanilla cake pops as well. As a gift, we had everyone sign the champagne bottle to the birthday girl so she could drink it and savor the memory of her thirtieth even longer than just that night. Her parents are very well known at our church and they prayed a blessing over her just before dinner. We are so blessing to have Chick's family in our lives. Her sweetness and great ability to put a smile on anyone's face is awesome. We also made a photo backdrop where we took photos throughout the night.

Here's Chick with her hubby. They're so cute!! Shortly before this we played a slideshow I put together of her 30 years on Earth. Her mom helped so much with providing photos!

These ladies are so much fun to be with. Her SIL even drove up from Houston for the party! We played a game shortly after dinner and I believe this was the most fun King Pea and I have had in a LONG time. It's nice to be home. This makes it far more fun!

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