My candy boy’s first journey across the solar!
We spent essentially the most excellent sunny day celebrating our personal little sunshine’s first birthday with household and buddies. I’m undecided if I’ll ever have the ability to look again at these images with out tearing up.
In case you’re searching for inspiration on your personal “First Journey Across the Solar” 1st party
— from decorations to social gathering favors to meals —
I’m sharing all the small print of Oliver’s big day in San Diego!
Get together Particulars & Decorations
In relation to social gathering decorations, just a few wonderful native San Diego female-owned manufacturers (a lot of whom I used for my child bathe!) helped make the day so particular!
Balloons by Collect and Pop Balloons
They create biodegradable balloon installations that make the entire setting significantly *pop*. We added attractive trains of balloons to the arch backdrop of his cake smash station and his bounce home. Protecting with the “solar” theme, we opted for heat and brilliant colours!
Furnishings & Prop Leases from Boho Babes
We went by Boho Babes to lease the cane backdrop, cane cake stand, and umbrella for his cake smash space. And the lovable mini attan clothes rack for the pool ponchos for the youngsters.
They have been capable of design the “First Journey Across the Solar” signal for the backdrop which was the proper contact and introduced the theme collectively fantastically!
I completely love furnishings leases for events—it’s such a straightforward method to rework an area like your yard into no matter you dream of!
Mini White Bounce Home from Inflate San Diego
Smooth play objects are excellent for first birthdays! Oliver LOVED operating round his bounce home and the older children jumped for hours. It additionally made for ADORABLE images!
Ice Cream Cart from Little Fox Cups + Cones
I’ll discuss extra about Little Fox’s ice cream tacos within the meals part, however I really like that this doubled as dessert and decor!
The rental from Little Fox included the darling bike with a floral association for the basket.
Sensory Bins
My buddies run an unimaginable firm, SD Little Wonders, that does speech and sensory play pop-up occasions and personal events round San Diego. They arrange water and kinetic san sensory bins for the youngsters to play with within the yard!
1st Birthday Smash Cake
My mother made his cake utilizing this wholesome smash cake recipe sweetened with maple syrup as an alternative of sugar. The “bare cake” type is definitely tremendous straightforward to DIY. You may at all times totally cowl it with the yogurt frosting for a extra completed look.
Truthfully, I used to be apprehensive the cake may not be very yummy however it was actually scrumptious. And, as you’ll be able to see, he practically completed the complete factor himself!
Rattan Cake Stand
This was truly a rattan flower pot stand that I discovered on Amazon and it labored completely!
“One” Felt Pennant Excessive Chair Banner
Etsy, in fact!
Customized order particulars:
- String Sort: White Twine
- Flag Colour(s): CREAM
- Letter Colour(s): GOLDENROD
- Pom Pom Colour(s): BURNT PUMPKIN, GOLDENROD, YELLOW, CREAM
Customized Title Felt Pennant Cake Topper
Etsy strikes once more!
Customized order particulars:
- String Colour: Cream
- Font Colour: Cream
- Cake topper Flag shade(s): Pumpkin Spice/Goldenrod/Gold
Get together Favors
For the reason that social gathering was a “pool” social gathering, I opted for these lovable little swim ponchos and my bff made the customized kiddie sun shades! We displayed them on the little rattan clothes rack (from Lease Boho Babes) by the pool—it was the proper contact!
Hooded Swim Ponchos
I really like this a lot that I need to do matching outfits or equipment for all of his birthdays. The youngsters have been thrilled they usually made for lovable images!
Better part? They have been truly fairly inexpensive. I discovered these on sale at Kohl’s and had one in every of their huge 30% off coupons, making them round $14 every.
DIY Title Sun shades
These are tremendous straightforward to make! We purchased this pack of youngsters’ sun shades (I may’ve purchased much less in the long run as a result of there have been solely 8 children) and these flower slime charms.
First Birthday Get together Meals and Drinks
We opted for the “minimal effort” route for social gathering meals. As a substitute of a cake to serve, we had the Little Fox ice cream taco cart which was self-serve. For meals, we positioned a giant Costco with sandwiches and many snacks. And, I made fairy bread and solar butter and jelly sandwiches for the youngsters.
Meals from Costco
We have been internet hosting round 30 individuals, so positioned a giant Costco order with drinks, snacks, and sandwiches. Right here’s our listing for inspo!
- Juice bins
- Coconut water
- Glowing water
- Seltzers (alcoholic)
- Beer
- Water bottles
- Applesauce pouches
- Pirate’s Booty
- Selection Pack of Chips (Hippeas or PopCorners)
- Rooster Swiss Rolls
- Veggie Platter
Children’ Sandwiches
We made allergen-friendly sandwiches for the youngsters. Fairy bread is an Australian snack produced from a slice of white bread topped with butter (modify in case you have a dairy or nut allergy) and sprinkles. We additionally made DIY solar butter and natural strawberry jelly “Uncrustables.”
NOTE: We’ve a variety of allergy symptoms to be conscious of in our buddy group and discovered the laborious means that gluten-free bread is usually made with eggs. If in case you have a baby with egg allergy symptoms and a baby with gluten intolerance, you would possibly want to purchase two forms of bread.
Ice Cream Tacos
This was such a tasty deal with from Little Fox Cups & Cones! You may decide which taste ice cream tacos you need — we opted for the plant-based gluten-free “Let Them Eat Cake” taste (which I really like that they’ll do!).
Gotta love the rainbow sprinkles!
Useful Tip:
Customized Cookies
As a parting “thanks” present, we gave out “First Journey Across the Solar” themed cookies from Christina’s Confections.
There you might have it!
Oliver’s “First Journey Across the Solar” 1st Birthday Get together in San Diego! It was the proper day spent celebrating our little sunshine!
I additionally shared a reel on Instagram from the big day. Make sure you test it out!