We went with an icy blue and black theme. Most of the Paris parties we've seen are pink and black, and we wanted to make ours different!
Each place setting had a menu for the girls to pick what they wanted for lunch. We served croissant sandwiches with several choices of toppings. I know my girls got a kick out of "ordering" their lunch and having it arrive on a tray.
The dessert table featured French macarons from a local bakery and birthday cupcakes. When serving cupcakes at a birthday party, I like to make the birthday girl's extra special. Her cupcake was on its own pedestal with a large Eiffel Tower cake topper.
I made the centerpiece stick and placed it in a vase of white roses. I love how versatile these sticks are.
Here are more centerpiece sticks I created and placed on the dessert table.
Door signs are a great way to decorate your entryway and make a great first impression on your guests. I used this door sign to decorate the Birthday Girl's special chair. Each guest had tulle on their chair but the Birthday Girl had this special sign.
I created this Eiffel Tower for the front door to greet guests as they arrived.
I love paper straws! I think they are such a fun and colorful way to add details to a party! Of course, I had to embellish them with Eiffel Towers too.
The Birthday Girl came up with the idea of adding Eiffel Towers to each guest's napkin!
Here's the special cupcake for the Birthday Girl.
Some of the food that was also on the menu....These were veggies in ranch dressing in plastic shot glasses.
The highlight of the party....the chocolate fondue fountain! I used a centerpiece stick to dress up the bamboo dipping skewers.
One of the activities was making outfits out of table cloths, patterned duck tape, ribbon and jewels. I created this little "closet" for the girls to pick out the items they needed. I also found these great free printables and framed those. I created the Chanel inspired sign. The girls were very creative and had a lot of fun modeling their fashions...and wearing my heels!
I found this idea from Pinterest too. There were no directions but I was able to figure out what to do. I bought each girl a canvas. Then I printed out an Eiffel Tower and mod podged it to the canvas. The girls sponge painted around the picture and added black puffy paint and gems. It was really fun to see how different each one turned out in the end!
The favors were small purses that I made from cardstock, ribbon and gems. They were filled with a compact, hair tie and lipstick pen.
Each guest also received a journal that I embellished with Eiffel Towers, tulle and favor tags that I made.
The girls were all so sweet! I know I really enjoyed this party!
Any of the items you see here can be purchased from my Etsy shop.
