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Gender Reveal Party Tips!

Your little bundle of joy is on the way and you couldn’t be more thrilled. Whether this is your first child or another addition to your wonderful family, you want to mark this moment with something amazing. A Gender Reveal Party is all the rage and you are ready to start planning yours now.

Some tips toward creating the perfect gender reveal party.

  • Pick a date that is around your 20-week ultrasound. In case that little one is a bit shy, it’s a good idea to leave a little wiggle room after your ultrasound. After you’ve got your date scheduled, make sure you send out your invitations a month in advance, which will allow your guests to plan for any travel arrangements they might need to make to attend your party.
  • If you are planning to be as surprised as your guests on your big day, then it’s a good idea to choose a trusted accomplice who can handle any hiccups when it comes to ordering the surprise reveal party supplies. You definitely want someone who can keep a secret—even from you! Your ultrasound technician will happily assist you in keeping the secret. Just provide them an envelope to write the baby’s sex on a piece of paper to seal in the envelope. Then you can hand this precious information off to your trusted pal to commence with the surprises. The fewer people that know the sex of the baby—the better!
  • Start looking for ideas on gender reveal party themes and decide on the theme that is perfect for you. You can let your guests know the theme of your party by choosing coordinating invitations. Don’t limit yourself to just pink and blue. There are other gender neutral and modern themes such as a yellow and grey chevron design, or orange and navy. Once you have decided on a theme, make sure to order your supplies early and give yourself enough time to put things together and to decorate. You are pregnant and you don’t want to be stressed or rushing around when it comes time to get ready for the big gender reveal. This is supposed to be fun—not stressful!
  • If you are planning on some special effects such as, balloon reveals, powder cannons, or smoke cannons, you can do a test run to make sure everything is set up perfectly. This can also help your photographer set up and capture the moment without missing a beat.

While at the party, it’s a great idea to involve your guests as much as possible. Everyone is there to share in the joy of the new family member, so let them be a real part of the event. Have your guests cast their vote for the sex of the baby, let your guest “dress their guess” in the color scheme of the gender they suspect. Prepare fun games that revolve around guessing the gender of the baby and even send them home with a special favor to mark the moment. Pinterest is your best friend when it comes to your party planning.

For those far away loved ones who couldn’t be there, you can share the pictures on social media. If you really want to involve those who are far away, you can even live stream the reveal on Facebook. Whatever you choose, this party is about your family and the new arrival soon to come and all the love that everyone around you shares. Make it a special day for you and your loved ones by throwing a fun and memoriable Gender Reveal Party.

Sparkling Fourth of July!

 

The time has come to deck out the porch in red, white and blue to celebrate our freedoms and thank the amazing men and women who make it possible! So, grab your sparklers, lay out a spread of the best 4th of July snacks and prepare for our favorite celebration of the year! Independence Day is less than two weeks away and we are more than ready to celebrate this exciting holiday!

When you think of the Fourth of July you think of American flags, backyard parties and of course sparklers! So, let’s start with the endless possibilities for decorations! For starters, if you have an American flag, display it! If your flag is already out check it, it may be time to replace it. When I decorate for a party I like to go all out, I just love the classic American red, white and blue everywhere from table cloths and plates to desserts and center pieces! One super cute and easy idea is getting some red, white and blue flowers for center pieces! I love to upcycle used jars, so I put an assortment of flowers in a jar and added a mini American flag and it was the perfect addition to our festive decorations!

Now for the best part of your fourth of July party, sparklers! Sparklers are always so much fun for the whole family! We have a variety of sparklers and 4th of July sparkler packages to add to your Independence Day fun. Our Patriotic Sparklers Party Package includes 10 packages of our 10 inch sparklers and a package of our gold star sparklers as well. The 10 inch sparklers and our star sparklers have a burn time of 45 seconds which gives you plenty of time for fun and pictures! To add to all the patriotic fun, we have included two confetti cannons, so you can be showered in a cloud of red, white and blue! Our confetti cannons are super easy to use just hold the confetti cannon with both hands, point them at the sky, twist the bottom and BOOM! You will have red, white and blue confetti shooting up to 15 feet in the air showering you in a patriotic cloud! It also includes 8 glow sticks, 4 boxes of kid snappers and 6 jumbo assorted color smoke bombs to add the party excitement. We also have our 20 inch sparklers which are perfect for sky writing with a burn time of one minute and a half to help capture the best pictures!

Let’s not forget safety this Independence Day especially while using sparklers! Sparklers are fun for everyone to enjoy but make sure all children are supervised by an adult. Sparklers should always be held at arm’s length and you should be standing 6 feet away from other people while the sparkler is lit. Once the sparkler has burned out, place it in a bucket of water or sand. Just because the sparkler has burned out does not mean that the stick is not still hot, once the sparkler stick is placed in the water or sand bucket and completely cooled it is safe to throw the sticks away.

I hope your Independence Day celebration goes off without a hitch and our patriotic party package will help add that extra spark to your party! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for all our party package updates and don’t forget to tag us in all your sparkling pictures! We love to see your smiling faces!

What is a Gender Reveal Party

 

What is a Gender Reveal Party? A gender reveal party is a party to announce a new arrival in the family! It is a fun new way to reveal the gender of your little peanut to-be and celebrates the newest soon-to-be born member of your family. Gender Reveal Parties are so much fun for parents to be and it’s a great way to include the extended family in this new stage of your life. Friends will also feel more involved, and they will appreciate being included in the excitement. So, invite all your loved ones to find out the gender of your new baby and celebrate this during this beautiful time of your life.

Decorating with pink and blue is an obvious tip for your party, but there are a lot of creative ways to do this. I have seen so many cute ways to not only decorate but to include your friends and family in the fun!  Ask your guests to come dressed in the color of their gender guess. It will be so much fun to see who comes in pink and who comes in blue! I have also seen some fun old wives’ tale games, where the mom answers old wives’ tales to help guest’s guess whether this new baby is a little mister or misses. Some families take it even further, keeping themselves in the dark about their new baby’s gender. They have the doctor’s office write down the gender and seal it in an envelope. This take some serious restraint on those parents not to peek! Then a trusted family member or friend does the gender reveal for them.

One of the most exciting ways to do the final reveal is to shoot a gender reveal confetti        cannon into the air near the end of the party. Our confetti cannons are made with compressed air,    and they shoot bright pink or blue biodegradable paper confetti up to 15 feet high. You simply hold the gender reveal confetti cannon with one hand and twist the bottom with the other. Then POP a cloud of festive pink or blue tissue paper falls down around you. Our confetti cannons can be launched indoors or out.

You can involve all your friends and family in the party by asking them to help make pink and blue cookies to celebrate. Set up a cookies station with all pink and blue frosting and sprinkles! This is a fun way to have some sweets and an activity for the kiddos as well.  Another fun party idea is to give guests a memento to take with them to remember your gender reveal party. Photo booths are a ton of fun plus it gives your guest a picture that one day they can show your little one. It is so fun to have these little keepsakes to show kids years later that you were there they day their mommy and daddy found out that you were their little prince or princess.

Do you have any fun gender reveal party ideas? I’d love to hear them! Tag us on Facebook and Instagram! Don’t forget if you used any of our products for your gender reveal to send them in to be entered into our photo contest!

Unique Wedding Ideas

Some girls dream about their wedding day from the time they are a little girl. As they get older those fairytale wedding dreams change from Cinderella and her horse drawn carriage to trying to the current trends and trying to find something new and exciting. I have 3 exiting new wedding trends that are must tries! Make your wedding one they talk about for weeks to come.

Guests books are a great way to create memory book to be able to look back on. To remember who came to your wedding and each guest’s warm wishes for you and your new husband on your big day. But traditional guests’ books aren’t something you’d normally display in your home. Make a sentimental memory piece, one you can look at every day and be reminded of all the love your friends and families have for the two of you. I came across this great idea for a guest log! I love the pay one words with this one! Rustic, chic weddings are all the rage these days, and this guest log fits that theme to a tee! This beautiful guest log  is customizable with your name and will make their perfect addition to your new home as a married couple.

An old must have wedding idea is making its way back! Disposable cameras! Place a disposable camera at each guest table or give each guest a disposable camera to use throughout the night. Now, I know what you’re thinking, I have my cellphone and that technology is amazing, but the beauty of film camera is you truly never know exactly what you get until its developed. No filters, no 100 poses, just you and your guests having the time of your life. Plus they are so fun to use and will help to create the very best memories! Love and Luxe Handmade makes adorable disposable camera wraps. Such a fun way to make the cameras an addition to your wedding décor!

The last big event of your wedding will be your big exit! There are so many beautiful ways to exit your wedding and saying goodbye to all your loved ones. One of my new favorites are confetti cannons! Our confetti cannons are biodegradable and we have some that are even water soluable, making clean up a breeze! Our confetti cannons as easy to use, hold with both hands, twist the bottom and POP! You will be showered with confetti that has been shot 15 feet into the air. Give all your guests a confetti cannon for a grand exit you’ll never forget!

I hope these ideas have helped you while planning your dream wedding! Planning to use our confetti cannons for your grand exit? I would love to see them! Tag us on Facebook and Instagram. Don’t forget we also have a monthly photo contest, so send us your confetti cannon grand exit pictures for a chance to win!

Engagement Pictures with a Twist

He’s popped the big question and you’ve said YES! What’s next on your wedding planning to do list? Engagement pictures! Before you get into the craziness that is wedding planning take a moment to enjoy being engaged! The man of your dreams just asked you to be by his side for forever. Fiancée is an exciting new title upgrade from girlfriend, and that needs to be documented! So, engagement pictures are a must do!

Engagement pictures are so much fun and there are endless themes and ideas! Is your soon to be hubby a huge sports fan? Saira Barron Photography captured this perfect picture of Tom and Jennifer! Tom is a huge football fan, so incorporating both his love for the game and his love for Jennifer created a spectacular picture for these two! I love how the jersey has his last name and her soon to be last name on it! This shot also spotlights her gorgeous engagement ring as well!

I absolutely adore this engagement picture of Dave and Kate using our confetti cannons! These confetti cannons are perfect for any outdoor photoshoot as they are water-soluble! You know what that means? ZERO clean up! Our confetti cannons shoot up to 15 feet in the air, showering you in confetti! We get asked all the time if our confetti cannons are hard to use, the answer is no! They are super easy! Hold the cannon with both hands, aim the cannon towards the sky and twist lightly on the bottom of the tube and BOOM, you’ll be in a beautiful cloud of white confetti.

Props are another fun addition to your engagement photoshoot! These I stole her heart … So I am stealing his last name signs by Refunked Junkies add such a fun flirty feel to your pictures! Another idea I have seen a lot lately is save the date signs used during your engagement picture session. Which I think is a brilliant idea if your future hubby is anything like mine. Convincing him to take professional pictures with me is like pulling teeth, so getting some cute save the date pictures at the same time as your engagement pictures is win, win, win in my book!

Before your elbow deep in seating charts and floral arrangements, capture your love and excitement during this beautiful chapter of your life. You won’t be sorry you did! I can’t wait to see your beautiful engagement pictures, so be sure to tag us on Facebook and Instagram. Don’t forget we have a monthly photo contest! If you use confetti cannons or sparklers in your engagement shoot be sure to send them to us for a chance to win!