So the invitations to my daughter’s party are out. The responses are trickling in. While my intention was to keep it small, I don’t think I’m going to be successful. Now I’m planning on about 30 kids, 45 adults. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. So for my menu…
45 inch sandwiches from Bay Cities [...]
Posted under Birthday, Birthday themes, Entertainment, Food, Invitations, On a Budget, Party Ideas, Party Style, Party planning by Jillian - Monday, February 22, 2010
Tags: bay cities, Birthday themes, kid birthday, santa monica
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Every time I plan a party, I’m always amazed at how many details there are and how much work the whole thing is.
For my daughter’s 3rd birthday party, my goal is to create a hip, fun, and relatively simple shindig, with low stress. A tall order, I know, but here’s how I’m thinking of doing [...]
Posted under Birthday, Birthday themes, Entertainment, Food, Invitations, On a Budget, Party Ideas, Party Style, Party planning by Jillian - Friday, February 19, 2010
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I love this… an entire blog dedicated to people throwing Twilight-themed and New Moon-themed parties. It was started by Tara who was turning 30, wanted to throw a Twilight-themed dinner party, couldn’t find a lot of ideas on the web, so she started her own blog.
Some pictures from her Twilight-themed 30th birthday party.
And some other [...]
Posted under Party Ideas, Party Style, Party planning by Jillian - Thursday, January 21, 2010
Tags: new moon party ideas, new moon party invitations, twilight, twilight party, twilight party decorations, twilight party favors, Twilight party ideas, twilight party invitations, twilight party supplies, twilight theme
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I was just talking to Christine Long-Plotkin, who recently added her wedding photos to our site. She got married in November 2009 in Los Angeles, and threw a $30k wedding on a budget of $13k.
How did she do it? With a “can do” spirit, by finding people who were willing to work within her [...]
Posted under Dress, Entertainment, Food, On a Budget, Party Ideas, Party Style, Party planning, Wedding ideas, Weddings by Jillian - Monday, January 11, 2010
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So many of the parties I write about are big parties, so it was fun talking to party planner Chris Nease, owner of Celebrations at Home in Richmond, Virginia, about some of the smaller events she throws, and the creative things she comes up with to make her parties special.
She just put together a candy [...]
Posted under Entertainment, Food, On a Budget, Party Ideas, Party Style, Party planning by Jillian - Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tags: candy bar, Chris Nease, dessert bar, holiday party, On a Budget
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So here’s an interesting idea. You go to Paper & Cake, buy some inexpensive, but cool party themed design files, download them, print them (or take them to your local Kinkos or Staples and have them print them for you), cut them out, tape them together, and voila! and you’ve got professional-looking partyware at a [...]
Posted under Birthday, Entertainment, Food, On a Budget, Party Ideas, Party Style, Party planning by Jillian - Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tags: baby shower, Birthday, cupcakes, party, theme
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