EventsByRicci

I’m working with a fun young mama-to-be for her baby shower coming up on the 24th of this month. Her mom and mother-in-law asked me to pull together some of the details for the day. I think we’re gonna have some fun! I sat with the mama-to-be for a bit to figure out where we’d begin. They had already sent out invitations with a hot pink and brown zebra border, similar to these. An event always looks better when all of the details are coordinated, so that was our jumping point.

 We now have brown favor boxes with a special treat inside - can’t spoil the surprise for the guests! Those will be tied u with brown and ivory zebra ribbon w/ hot pink tags.

Now, I’m no floral designer but the mother-in-law happens to be pretty close to me so when she asked if I’d do the florals I really couldn’t say no. Off I went to Mayesh and picked out flowers and greenery that I knew would be easy to use. Here’s the result:

Hot pink ranunculus, tulips, roses, paler pink peonies (swoon!), hypericum berries and leaves I forget the name of :/

This was a quick mock-up. For the day of we’ll be using smaller cylinders that will be placed in larger square vases lined with coffee beans and wrapped with hot pink double faced satin ribbon layered over the brown and ivory zebra print ribbon. We’re rethinking the berries and considering some branchy type things like ting ting or fern shoots (tee hee, Cee!). All in all methinks it came out better than decent. I doubt good ol’ R. Jack or Asiel will be knocking at my door but oh well. I’ll live.

• met Mimi from Enjoy Celebrations and Occasions - LOVE her! had a grand ol’ time chit chatting over coffee and iced tea and exchanging ideas and musing over business
• had a drink or two with a past client/current friend - LOVE catching up, gossip and snarking ’bout just about everything. Super fun and I woke up with a headache to prove it!

Yay for me I made it back here just befor emy deadline of TILT.