Party Planning: Part 2

For those who wants to know my party plans for my baby's 1st  birthday, here are the details. Please bear with me 'cause I can't post the photos yet, party is going to be on May 19th. But I'll post the pictures of the party soon!

The theme of the party: Basketball, Lakers. That was actually my husband's request. My idea at first was only Basketball Theme but since he is a Laker fan, we decided to have that too. I started gathering my thoughts and ideas last November 2011, six months before the big day. Just as excited as other moms can be. Hahaha! Our only option for the venue will be in the City of San Fernando Pampanga, our hometown and where Yale was born. So I started looking out for a good place, caterers and party suppliers.

My party supplier is from Angeles City. The package consists of balloon decors, clowns, face painting, balloon twisting, magic show, cake, cupcakes, kids tables and chairs and photo booth. The contact person is a nice lady a mom as well and she gave me a pretty good deal. For the caterer, since I don't have much time to visit Pampanga very often, I just checked online. I emailed some of the party venues for their rates, as well as hotels and caterers. But pretty much, most of them only serves 4 types of food, pasta, rice, dessert and drinks. But luckily, I remembered a place where we used to dine before, contacted their events person and asked for May 19th to be pencil blocked for me. Went there on that same weekend and I got the reservation! I was surprised when she told me that it's an "eat-all-you-can" buffet. They serve 20 kinds of food plus desserts and a choice of bottomless iced tea or coke in cans. Good enough! At least, our guests will enjoy unlimited eating for 2 hours. Hahaha!I made a reservation for 80 adults (buffet) and 20 kids (plated). The amount she gave me is still adjustable depending on how many people will attend. At least, I don't have to buy Lechon anymore! :)

Here are the photos of the venue:

There's a stage for the program/show, tables will be arranged according to our preference.

Three months before the party, I have decided to create a "save the date" card and posted it on our facebook page. For the invites, I decided to have them made like a basketball game ticket, Lakers theme of course! You may check my supplier for the invites at sulit.com, her name is Lorlyn Tomaro. She gave me a good deal with the invites.

Samples of Yale's "save the Date" card and invites:

That should be just enough of the party plans I have. I will show you more after the big day! Please do read more of my posts. I will be very busy these coming days for the preparation of Yale's big day!

Thanks a lot for reading! :)