{Soirees} Showers for the Mommy-To-Be...Amber

Remember the invitation how-to I did last month?  Well we had the shower this last weekend, and it turned out great!

We fell in love with a baby shower that was featured on HWTM done by the fabulous Paige from Pages of Style, so that was our starting point. 

I loved the shower curtain she used as a back drop for the dessert table, and since I couldn't find anything I liked nearly as much, I just bought the same one from Target (it looks great in the guest bath too by the way).  I found a cheap child bubble umbrella on Amazon, drilled holes in it, and attached tear drop crystals to look like rain drops.  It's a little hard to see in the picture, but it was so cute.  I made the cake myself (lime and strawberry cake with cream cheese graham cracker frosting), and topped it with some beautiful fondant flowers I found on Etsy.  We put powdered donuts, yogurt pretzels, and jelly beans in some bright berry containers that I purchased from Shop Sweet Lulu.  Also on the dessert buffet were cupcakes, Fat Witch Babies Brownies that I had from a Gilt sale, coconut macaroons, truffles, and rock candy.

The table set up was pretty simple.  I just bought some antiqued roses to pretty it up a bit.  We used square plastic luncheon plates and plastic silverware (easy clean up).  We use my vintage dessert plates for the dessert.  The bubble vase place card holders were from one of the hosts recent wedding.  They were a perfect touch to our "showers" theme.

We set up a little beverage station on my kitchen table featuring sparkling water, pink lemonade, french berry soda, and pomegranate soda.  We used mason jars as glasses, and I ordered paper straws (from Shop Sweet Lulu too).

For lunch, we served Mac and Cheese with a variety of toppings, antipasti skewers, and caprese salad skewers.

For the shower favors, we made our own sugar scrubs using organic sugars, almond oil, and lime essential oils.  We packaged them up, and topped them off with a little tag that said "From our shower to yours."

We also did a photo booth (without the booth) with various props that I downloaded from Oh Happy Day.  We used the Fuji Instax Mini to take all the pictures, and they all looked so cute.

I made a mini album for the mommy-to-be as a keepsake with all the pictures in it.

Well that's the shower.  It turned out so great, and I had the best co-hosts a girl could ask for.  Next up... Jason's 30th Birthday Bash.  I'll be posting the invites sometime next week.  

I hope you all have a fabulous week!