You'll see from my previous post that Hank and I found out the gender of #BabySaye on a sweet little date night at one of our favorite spots. I would recommend that to anyone. I'm always down for hosting a party though so we of course wanted to tell our family in a fun get together kind of way.
Throughout the week I had my coworkers cast their vote in the office, noted social comments and texts and all that jazz. The majority thought what we thought... boy... FOR SURE. I decorated and ordered everything before we knew so no party decor or eats swayed a certain way.
I loved these balloons from All She Wrote Notes (mint best day ever), Oh Shiny! Paper Co. (confetti) and Thimblepress (pink hooray heart). The pink one popped shortly after this photo so it was obviously bursting with excitement to tell the world. Oh, and I took these mostly Etsy balloons to my local grocery, Harris Teeter, and they helium-ed them up at only 50 cents a pop.
When you walked in you donned a 'definitely a girl' or 'totally a boy' sticker. I had fun custom making these pretty in pink and mint wearables. Everyone, except one (Brandon!), wore boy.
I had the Oh Joy for Target party animals on each of the tables with flowers I arranged from my local grocery. I love this gold tablecloth (and a lace VINYL one!) I got on Amazon so much.
These fun gold balloons and tassels were also by Oh Shiny! Paper Co. on Etsy.
Of course Happy Little Prints koozies made an appearance next to the not-for-me beers.
But, what I could drink I love so much. The mocktail of all mocktails. Mint-to-Party Punch: one can concentrated frozen lemonade, one 2-liter Sprite Zero, three cups pineapple juice and three berry blue Kool-Aid Bursts. Mix together and all the yums ensue. We also served up Hank's delicious guac and cookies & cream popcorn from local shop The Mad Popper.
Everyone wanted to do the reveal before the pizza party so dessert was happily served first. We had the crew bite into their pretty in pink cupcake from The Cupcake Shoppe in Raleigh on the count of three. What color were these tinted with inside - totally blue or definitely pink!? Everyone bit in, and they were really looking - once the confusion struck - we let them know, "why would we color the inside when the outside color nailed it." Pretty in pink it was!! That was Hank's brilliant idea, and well, it was hilarious. So yes, girl it was!
No clue what we're looking at in the above photo but there it reads, it's a girl. We had so much fun, but the real star of the show was Bentley in his new party wear from Charleston's Crew La La.
Hi, guys! I'm going to be a big bowl of wrinkles brother. He's confetti all over the place excited. We think. Happy day, and enjoy the week.
