Fairy Tale Parties: Princess Birthday Party

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Princess Tea Party

Once again this year, my daughter wanted a "Princess" party for her birthday. I didn't want to replicate the same party that we had last year, so I decided we would have a princess tea party this time. We told all of the guests to wear their favorite princess dress or fanciest tea party outfit and hired a princess (from Fairy Tale Parties) to come to the party. Princess Bluebell painted the girls' faces and then taught them how to do a special ballet dance. She then gave each of the girls a tiara and home made fairy princess wand.

After all of the swirling, twirling and dancing, the girls were ready for some tea and snacks! We served iced tea (in a tea pot) and also had pink lemonade on hand. For snacks, we had ham and cheese finger sandwiches shaped like flowers, cranberry scones, whoopie pies, frosted sugar cookies shaped like tiaras and flowers and for the main attraction, a pink castle cake made by Fairy Tale Parties.

For party favors, we gave each guest a 3-dimensional chocolate tea cup and saucer (in addition to the wands and tiaras). The girls had a blast, so I'd say the princess tea party was a big hit!

This is the table where the girls sat to have their faces painted by the princess. The wands, tiaras and favors were all set up here as well.

The castle cake made by Fairy Tale Parties

Each place setting consisted of a flower tea cup and saucer and home made cloth napkin

Tiara and Flower Frosted Sugar Cookies

Whoopie pies

Cranberry Scones to with the tea

And no tea party is complete without finger sandwiches. These were ham and cheese shaped like flowers

Happy Birthday Pennant Banner made of cloth with felt letters

Flower tea pot to match the tea cups

Princess Carriage filled with hydrangeas for the Centerpiece

Hand made cloth napkins

Pretty Tulle Poms add a lot of character to the room.

Chocolate tea cups as party favors with thank you note shaped like a tea bag

Chocolate tea cups were put in white boxes and decorated with tissue paper flowers and princess ribbon

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Purple Princess Party

When I asked what kind of party my daughter wanted for her third birthday, her reply was an emphatic “purple princess party!” I wasn’t quite sure what that would entail, but happily set about looking for purple princess things. I found a website that sells princess dresses (www.myprincesspartytogo.com), so that was my first purchase; 8 dresses with tiara and purple wands. I wanted all of her guests to feel like princesses and if my daughter wanted a purple princess party, I might as well go all in!

Next were the decorations. I found a big cardboard castle from Shindigz and I painted it purple and took pictures of the little girls in their purple dresses in front of the castle (which they loved). I also found a “Princess” sign from Hobby Lobby that painted purple and a mirror decal that I applied to the wall next to the castle so the girls could look at themselves dressed up.

For the dining area, I used a lavender table cloth and hung lots of poufs and poms from the ceiling and tied lavender tulle around each chair, tying a silver or purple wand in the middle. I had lavender flowers as the centerpiece and a metal dress outline that I decorated in lavender tulle and a purple tiara.

I decided to do a dessert table for refreshments and continued the purple theme with those as well, serving Marshmallow “Tiara” Pops, Raspberry Yogurt Covered Pretzels, Purple M&Ms (lentils actually), Strawberry Cupcakes with lavender frosting and topped with tiaras, Castle Frosted Sugar Cookies and finally the Rapunzel birthday cake.
The party was so much fun and the little girls loved the fact that everything was purple! The best part by far, was my daughter’s face when she saw the purple castle and the cake. It was definitely worth the effort!