"Bonjour, au Revoir!" Hello Baby and Goodbye Going Away Party

I recently found myself unexpectedly moving from a state that I had been born and raised in my entire life. This presented a tidal wave of emotions, as you can imagine, along with some major problems, like: two of my friends were having babies and we needed to have a party before I left! Lets get our priorities straight here!

If parties are as important to you, as they are to me, than you know, there was no way these two girlfriends of mine (who just happen to be SISTERS-how cute is that?!) were going to have babies without a party first! They, in turn, made me agree to it doubling as a going away party for me. Fine. Have it your way. We all know you don't mess with pregnant ladies.
 

 

So the theme was created, a "hello, goodbye" party to celebrate the upcoming arrivals of two sweet little boy cousins and for friends to say goodbyes amidst tears...not of sadness, but slap your knee, squeal with delight, hilarious girl talk tears. You know the kind I'm talking about, where your cheeks hurt so bad you have to hold them in poker face position so they don't sting? Ya, that kind of laughter brings on the best kind of tears. Ok, enough about the "why", here are the fun party details! The "Bonjour/au revoir" garland was made by sketching letters onto black paper with pencil, and then carefully, VERY carefully cutting those letters out and then gluing them to one another. The black and white bakers twine was strung through the tops of the letters. The mini striped flags were cute from black and white paper and the bakers twine was affixed to the backs with tape. 

 

We used mustaches and gumballs as inspiration for the party, creating the decorations with black and white, and bright colors. We used honeycomb globes to mimic the gumballs used to decorate with. Those little gumballs were put to a perfectly practical use as drink stirrers. We only stabbed ourselves about 15 times jamming those gumballs onto the ends of the sharp (VERY sharp, I might add) bamboo skewers, but hey, we all make sacrifices for the greater party good, right?

The gumball stirrers in action, clearly not stopping juicy conversing from happening.

 

My talented friend, and one of the expecting mamas, Wendy, made this adorable mustache garland, handle bar 'staches and all! She cut the mustache shapes out of black felt and then sewed them all together. The garland really pulled everything all together.

 

The gumballs made another appearance on the cake.

 

The dessert table also featured Snickerdoodle cookies and Chocolate Chunk Salted Carmel cookies. Both were also tucked into the cute little mustache bags for guests to have a sweet treat to take home. Because, lets be honest, when cookies this good are served at a party we all want to shove a handful in our purse to take home and eat while we watch our favorite show, but never would. Oh, that's just me? oh well. And some of you actually do? Well, I won't judge. But that's what the guilt-free party favors are for!

 

 

Aren't those mustache balloons perfect?

 

The menu was casual, to go along with the casual, intimate gathering. Toppings to create your own pizzas were displayed for guests to add what they liked and then transferred to the oven to bake. While pizzas cooked, guests nibbled on vegetables, fruit and cheese and crackers. A hearty pear and goat cheese salad accompanied the pizzas and it was fun to sample the various flavors of the pizzas that were created.

 

And what's a mustache party without some mustaches on a stick?

 

I hope your party is fabulous!

 

-heather