I got most of my inspiration from a Pretty in Pink baby shower hosted by Amy at Stem Parties Blogspot. This is one of my favorite blogs. I emailed Amy to find out what style of invitation she used for her shower, and after she sent me the link I had the perfect idea.... So, I came up with this invitation.
Next, was figuring out the decorations. I got everything I needed from Stem. She had links to all of the adorable paper daisies and the pregnant dress forms. I just bought a few spools of ribbon, pink table cloth and pink and white checked fabric from Wal-Mart. The flowers and vases were seriously 3 dollars a bunch and 2 dollars a vase at Wal-Mart! I used 2 bunches of pink flowers and 3 of the small vases. Instead of water, I just crumpled up an iridescent tissue paper to fill the vases. To give the dress form a little more height, I put an empty Gerber Crunchies carton under the fabric! ha ha! it fit perfectly!! For the custom record labels, I just used the same fonts and colors of the invitations I made. Then, I cut them out and using scrapbook tape, attached them to the fronts of old unused records! Super easy!
The buffet table comes next. Lucky for me, my mother-in-law has an empty dining room. We had plenty of room to set up an 8 foot folding table for all of the food. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of the buffet after all of the food was set up, but you get the idea!
I also decided to do a dessert buffet and drink bar. We had a pink punch for the mommy to be & the non-drinkers. Plus strawberry-banana or cranberry mimosas for the others... The punch was quite tasty! For the mimosas I just used canned strawberry-banana nectar with champagne! Very good!!!! I made the white chocolate strawberries myself, but we ordered the cupcakes from a great bakery in Colleyville called Trio. Not only were they beautiful, but they were delicious too! We also ordered the chicken salad from Trio. Very scrumptious!!



I printed out custom water bottle labels. I also bought a package of 12 small mason jars at Wal-Mart for 7 dollars, and printed out the favor labels using an Avery Label template. I just cut them out into circles and filled the jars with mints! Super easy, and very cheap!
Here are just a few random photos of the rest of the decorations!

















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