I mean, they aren’t going to name her that, but I still kinda “won” if you know what I mean. Their last name is Whannell so I chose “1L” (get it “One L” Whannell) and I won. Basically you guess (or pick) what name you think they should name their baby. We stole the name game idea from Bash, Please (only the hippest party planners in town) when they did it for Margaux and Max’s beautiful shower. I kept meaning to buy or make a cake topper but the day totally got away from us. It has all the elements of ‘smores inside it - chocolate, salty graham cracker and marshmallow. That beautiful ‘smores cake is a genius creation by Tara at HeirloomLA and was insanely delicious (and while it looks not that big, it served all 75 people). They were a massive hit, cut to six hours into the party, and yes, “lollipop kids” may have been sung with the help of some helium, that oh-so-precious resource. I enlisted help from my friends at Geronimo Balloons, which are those famous huge and round balloons floating around at parties. Plus, I love saying and buying “Billy Balls.” Oh, and I added Billy Balls because I wanted more texture and something really graphic to contrast against the Proteus. Stylistically, they all look good together because the they all fell within our mid-century Texan outback theme. Somehow throwing it all together looks way better and more fun than going through and perfectly picking out all the colors that matched, etc. When it comes to the patterns and colors, we decided to not try to art direct it too much and just mix all of these together, with the main color palette being desert colors, with hits of hot pink and teal (duh). That awesome fringe situation up there is from Geronimo, which was supposed to be on the balloons that we got from them, BUT, we loved them in the more blank places of the party. Ultimately I liked the height and color variation of the Proteus, but the succulents would have been less wasteful, so they would have been just as good of an option and not that much more expensive. Also, anybody who reads this and books a party before August 1st can get 15 percent off the rental with them, as long as you say “Emily loves Yeah!” in your email.įor flowers, I vacillated between these Proteus and other desert flowers or doing just succulents. We had them come at 11pm and it was fine). (And yes, they remove as late as you want - ish. You go to their warehouse, pick out what you want (they’ll help you make decisions based on how many people you have, how big the party area is, etc.), and then they deliver, set up, and remove all in the same day. They provided the furniture, rugs, pillows (except a few of mine), and poufs. … and turn it into everything you see below without help from an awesome rental company like YEAH!. I enlisted help from Yeah! Rentals because even though I’m a stylist you can’t take a backyard that looks like this at 8am … Basically it just means a casual desert vibe with delicious beer and BBQ. They both love mid-century, she is from Texas, and he is from Australia, so that is kinda the best we could come up with. The theme was “MidCentury Texan Outback, ” naturally. So we wanted to go all out and spare no expense for them. And I promise you, being at what you think is a normal party and then having a magician randomly pull a bird out of his pocket next to you is VERY exciting, indeed. Leigh and Corbs are very generous and throw awesome parties, sometimes including custom scavenger hunts, magicians, or yachts. Not the date or time, but everything else. And we did.īut of course, it had to be a surprise. Then thirdly, why do they always have to be during the day when people aren’t really ready to get rowdy? So we - myself, and Corbett’s three closest ladies in her life - decided to throw a joint baby shower - er, PARTY, at 5pm, which is an appropriate hour to get your crunk on. Also, Corbett has a lot of close male friends so it’s just kinda weird to make it solely a girl thing and leave all the boys out. First off, Leigh (the dad - yes, they both have strangely asexual names) is having a baby, too he loves a good party and he deserves a good party before life all changes. It’s not that anything is wrong with the more traditional baby showers, truly, but sometimes I think traditions don’t make much sense for everyone in every situation. Except I’m officially renaming this one to “Send Off to Parenting Party” because that’s more what we decided to do.
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