Meg's Baby Shower: Birds and the Bees Theme

One of my dearest friend's Meg is having twins. And to celebrate two more little ladies joing our wonderful happy family, we decided to throw her a darling Birds and the Bees Baby Shower. Her sister, Jillian, Meg's Mom Mrs. Geiss, and I started working on the theme.

Here is my inspirational idea board...

After that I designed the invitation and some other stationary to go along with the event.

Jillian had a wonderful idea to give Meg cards of encouragement and advice.

We had a small party, 15 ladies, 4 children and 4 husbands came. We tried to strategically time it between nap times and dinner.

For the entrance we created a welcome sign with the same stationary design and added wooden bird houses on the railing. The wreath was wooden rossettes which matched the color scheme from Target. I added potted tulips and daffodils from Trader Joes.

 I thought the BABY wooden letters were just darling. I bought the wooden letters from Micheals and wrapped them in color coordinated yarn. I loved the clothes line with color coordinated onesies. Jillian and her mom put that together, and one day the girls will wear them.

I found the cutest felt bee clothespins and baskets at World Market. We used the clothespins on everything from the signs to the napkins. We used the basket to hold the completed cards of encouragement and advice for Meg.

I love any excuse to use a cake mold, and this bee hive cake was super cute. We had a large cheese platter, a fruit tray, and various deserts including a honey bee cake recipe which was just so cute.

I try to be as local and seasonal as possible. For the centerpieces, I purchased daffodil plants from Trader Joes, they were $4.99 and now I get to replant the bulbs in the garden. I also bought the cutest little ceramic birds and little bird houses at Micheals for $1.99. They now adorn my garden.

Jillian came up with two darling games. One was guess the circumfrence of the Meg's bump. Which she had pink ribbon and everyone in the room got to guess. The other game was a list of personal characteristics from Meg and Brad and guess which one Meg wanted the children to inherit. It was so much fun and the personal stories about tire changes and getting lost in front of their house was hilarious.

For favors, I made little white chocolate bee hives. I melted white chocolate chips and let them cool in the fridge using a bee hive candy mold. Let them completely cool before you take them out. I wrapped them in cling wrap, and took simple mesh bags from walmart and imprinted them with regular ink with Welcome Baby and Merci stamps.  We hung up a peice of wrapping paper from PaperSource and using brown satin ribbon and clothes pins hung the favors on the door.

It was a wonderful time, and a incredibly joyous occasion. I think the only thing I would do differently was I would have had a citrus punch and perhaps balloons, but hind site is 20/20. All in all it was a perfect day.

As always, much love, many blessings, and happy celebrating.