Baby's First Birthday: Inspiration

A baby's first birthday is a momentous occasion...at least for the parents. For my baby, as many others, it will be the first time he or she gets to rip into a cake. We are talking sugar overload here. Like cake on the walls, in the hair, down deep in the diaper, and the many folds of their chubby (read cute) legs.

If any of you are like me, you actually dread this moment because you know how much energy your little one has before you inject major doses of sugar into their little bodies. This fact alone makes me only want to serve him a cupcake and pray that he does the finger poke and that is all, but then again, I don't want to rob him from that right of passage. 

But me being the person I am, I want an unforgettable party-even if he will not remember it. (Except for the hundreds of photographs that the photographer I hired will take). 

I wanted to come up with an idea that hasn't been done to death or all together too clique or weird. So, after searching through many google searches, Pinterest searches, Amazon searches, and image searches for first birthdays, I came up with a Prince party. There have been so many princess parties-I am talking out the ying yang massive amounts of girly princess parties. Well, I think of my little boy as my knight in shining armor so why shouldn't I give him a little prince party. I found a few parties but only one that was the gold theme, royally sweet, and one more of a knight party. Of course there are all kinds of blue party stuff and even baby shower prince ideas, but just not exactly what I was looking for. So, I began with the lace crowns, a few empty bottles of Starbucks Frappuccino (hey how else could I get my energy), and loads of gold spray paint. 

When I started thinking of color, I got a little jumbled. I am a nice neutral Girl and started out with just wanting to use white, like in his nursery. However, while in his nursery one day I spied the little golden crown that I purchased from Hobby Lobby for like 2 bucks on clearance. Then, I knew my colors would be gold and silver and that the crowns would be my "crowning glory" so to speak (ignore my awful pun). 

So, that was that. I would have a gold and silver prince party featuring crowns for my son's first birthday party. 

Then, to the hard part, the food. This was really very simple as I decided that I wanted the theme to be "Royally Sweet" early one and do like tea party type foods. 

Check out My Pinterest Board filled to the brim with ideas about this wonderful event. 

Some of my favorites were the Homestyle Mac and Cheese Minis, the First Birthday Chalkboard (it is a must for those chalkboard lovers like me), the Milk Bottles, glitter dipped mason jars (love the black one, it is one my to do list), and the lace crowns.They all made an appearance at my little man's birthday party, with some of my own little twirks and twists. 

I love this keep sake. For the party I mounted it on a black dollar tree board. It was a little more expensive than everyone says to get it printed at Office Max. I have over 60 in this but to me, it is worth it.