Those of you who know me know that I LOVE to plan parties! Since the moment Daphanie told us she was preggo, Laura, Jayne and I have been hard at work designing and planning her babyshower. We knew we wanted it to be unique and different and of course totally awesome!  We wanted to have nests incorporated, so we built our theme around that idea. Laura, Jayne and I got together a couple of times to plan out the details and discuss dinner options inbetween our busy work, kids and school schedules.We each have our own special talents and we definitely put those to good use!   Jayne designed and hand made each invitation, which were to die for! Laura picked out the runner fabric for the tables and had her mom help sew it.  She also created all the floral arrangements, frisco cups salads and desserts. I designed the menu cards and stickers for the jars and took pictures (along with Jen’s help) at the shower and made the pecan crusted stuffed chicken.  It was really important for us to support our local businesses, so we tried to get everything we could at all of our awesome stores. The first place we hit up was Style. If you havent been there you must asap! Style is located two doors down from our studio in downtown Kingsport. We found some really cute wooden and mercury birds there that went perfectly with our theme. We also used Hobby Lobby (a lot), Evergreen, and Tennessee Florist Supply. We were able to keep the babyshower theme a secret from Daphanie for seven long months! I know, we cant believe we were able to do that either! She had absolutely no idea what we were planning and it was a total surprise. We even got some of the men involved in the festivities and had them act as waiters to serve us dinner! The morning of the shower was a LITTLE hectic placing the tables, making the flower arrangements, cooking, and making sure every last detail was perfect. The look on Daphanie’s face when she saw everything was SO worth it! She was totally surprised and cried when she saw everything! Daphanie we are all so excited for you and Joe! We are thrilled you enjoyed your babyshower and we cant wait to meet little Hayden!

Front of the invitation and petite nest found at STYLE

Inside

the first of our many details of the day adorned the front door

Daphanie’s face as she opens the door!

favors for the guests to take home (idea from Bakerella)

Jayne, me, Daphanie, and Laura

the wishing tree..the note cards say “my wish for you is” and each guest wrote a special note and hung them on the tree

The tables!

napkin ring holders are tiny grapevine wreaths, name place holders are peat cups with one white jellybean

crystal vases held a nest with a bird and roses

green cock’s comb from Cali and tree stumps from Jayne’s father-in-law’s yard and customized water bottles

chairs, tables, china, tent and linens rented from Action Rentals

Our awesome dinner and one of the servers!

the guests

dessert- petite chocolate bunt cake drizzled with chocolate syrup!

our friendship!