30th Birthday Party

Yesterday, I told y’all about the birthday cake catastrophe, and today it is all about the 30th birthday party details! I wanted to do a theme party because dressing up is fun and makes for cute pictures. 30 rocks seemed like a good idea, and since the boys were born in 1981, I thought we could all dress up like 80’s rock stars. Come to find out, 30 year old boys think that’s cheesy. Do you think that’s a cheesy theme? I’ll have to do it for my own 30th! I made this cute invite that did not get used:

Any who, I ended up taking the easy route with a pre made evite. Super simple. I was inspired on the evite website with a little ad for personalized M&M’s. Did you know you can get people’s faces printed on M&M’s? I had to try it out and I googled to find a 10% off coupon code. It was a splurge, but for $52.60 you get to add 2 pictures and 2 phrases to M&M colors of your choice. And they come individually wrapped in 20 packets, perfect for personalized party favors. (This is not a sponsored post, I’m just obsessed with pictures of my friends on M&M’s!)

I found plastic table cloths and plates at Target on sale! Come to think of it, that is why I ended up with the color scheme. The yellow table cloths and orange plates were on sale. The blue plates were a crazy $2 splurge.

I made a festive banner out of card stock, twine, and the good ol’ Silhouette.

Call me a dork if you want, but I made color coordinated confetti with a hole punch. I had a handy button bag laying around and stuck all of my confetti in there to bring with me to the party. I kind of like personalized confetti. Confetti makes everything better, right?!

I also made these little balloons from the book, Micro Crafts. I used left over fake wedding rings from an old project, straightened them with the contraption you see in the picture then used a glue dot to attach the hand cut balloon shape to the silver piece. I stuck them in all the treats on the goodie tray.

Here are the balloons before I added highlights with a sharpie…

Here is my really fancy highlight addition, photographed with my super fun M&M’s!

Here is the whole sha-bang! Cake balls as cupcake toppers were a happy accident. I just did not have enough room for all the blue balls. (Ha! I can’t believe I just typed that, I’m so mature!)