Giraffe Baby Shower

Babies. I love babies. I love celebrations. So, baby showers are perhaps my favorite!

When my Aunt got pregnant, my uncle gave her a giraffe stuffed animal. Cute and adorable! My aunt started talking to my grandmother (Mia), my mom, and I about her baby shower. She and my uncle were not going to find out the sex of the baby which knocked out any pink, purple, glitter, and blue in my mind. That meant that we were limited on the color sceme. My aunt told me that the colors of the baby's nursery were going to be gray, orange, and teal. Somewhat neutral. A couple of weeks after talking with my aunt about what she wanted. I started to dream about a cutesy baby shower. Not girly though... My mom and I spent countless hours on Pinterest and Etsy trying to find a theme just right for my aunt because she is not a cutesy, girly, etsy, pinteresty kind of person like I am...so it became pretty complicated. Suddenly, I saw a baby shower with yellow and orange the two colors that had come to my mind a lot considering they don't know the sex of the baby. Then, it came to me...why not have a giraffe baby shower?? My aunt and uncle loves giraffes...they will be in the baby's nursery AND it is a GENDER NEUTRAL theme which is hard to come by these days.

Giraffe Baby Shower it is!!

 I started with drinks because the ONLY thing I wanted for this baby shower was paper straws. How ridiculous. But, I care about the details so that was my detail of this party. The orange straws!! I went to Party City and bought yellow and gray paper (coffee) cups for our beverages.

 I chose Lemonade as one of the beverages because it is yellow (one of the colors I chose) and because the shower was a lunch and how perfect!

 I bought loads and loads of washi tape and only ended up using like a little bit of each roll but it ended up so cute! I washi taped the sign on and the edges to the lid so no one would pull it off.

 The other beverage we decided to serve was iced tea. Unfortunately the morning of the baby shower the drink dispenser (like the lemonade one) started leaking so we had to turn to these glass pitchers.

 The water bottles with the wrappers that literally took me 2 hours to do. I sat and glued and sat and glued. And yes, that is what a devoted party planner does. ;)

 These are the ladies of my mom's side of the family.

(Auntie Sheila-from GA, my sister Marleigh, my Mia- GA, the guest of honor- My Auntie Ry, my mom, and me!)

 My mom and her sister.

 My grandmother and her two daughters.

 My grandmothers, her daughters, and daughter in-law.

Mia & Auntie Ry.

 Marleigh & Auntie Ry.

 Auntie Ry & I.

 This was my mom's favorite part of the shower, the banner. She was so obsessed with it. Well, I was too. Any cutesy detail, I like!

 The mama to be chair.

 Reserved for THE Mia. We call our mom's mom (our grandmother) Mia because it means mine in Italian.

 I might have a slight obsession with mason jars but who cares. I like them. So, I decided to mason jar EVERYTHING for the baby shower. We put these adorable yellow and white flowers in a couple of them.

A vase turned into a washi taped vase because to me it was way too boring.  

 Washi tape & a mason jar---ahhhhhhhh love.

 The lighting in these pictures is really bad but whatever. We had a luncheon and so we decided to go with these foods (I was in charge of dessert and decorations--the lunch was left to my mom and Mia)

 Yellow peppers, orange carrots, and well we snuck some red pepper in too! Served along side with roasted red pepper hummus.

 There was no such thing as berries on this day because they did not go with my color scheme. Because I am a very particular person and I like everything to be perfect, I wanted cantaloupe(orange) and pineapple(yellow). 

 The croissants with some of the left over cupcake toppers!! So cute. 

 Greek chicken salad with olives. Amazing. My mom made loads and loads of this salad!

 Because like I have said over and over again, I am a detail person. There had to be giraffes everywhere. Not cheesy but cutesy. So, I framed this print and placed it next to the dessert section of the table. The orange forks in a mason jar with orange and yellow ribbon...ahh!

 The lemony pasta salad that my Mia made. We had so much pasta we had to freeze it!

 My aunt's favorite cake flavor is Carrot Cake so because the shower was for her...not me, I wanted to personalize it to her taste. I made her homemade carrot cake cupcakes with homemade cream cheese frosting. My mouth is watering because they were SO good. Everyone was asking for the recipe :). We topped the cupcakes off with a cupcake topper...personalized!

 I wanted the shower to have some more cutesy stuff so I got some candy for the dessert section. Yellow rock candy was a hit...especially for my little cousins who came in town!

 Orange gumballs too! The cuteness factor.

 This is the cake. The cake that I spent countless hours designing. I would design one and throw it away....design, design, design. My drawing skills aren't the best but I drew a perfect plan. My mom wasn't sure it was going to go with the shower, but I knew this is exactly what I wanted. This exactly. The Tremont Goodie Shop nailed this cake. My dream came true.

 The giraffe matched the giraffes on the banner shown earlier :)

 Our house was seriously built for parties. We have an open floor plan and so we set up two card tables and had the rest of the chair facing where my aunt was sitting...to the left of this picture in front of the fireplace.

 Okay, sorry--I'm sort of obsessed.

 The table scape. I'm literally so happy how this turned out. There may have been a few arguements with my mom but it all turned out the way I planned. I tend to not like change therefore I don't like other people's ideas once I have my mind set on something....not the best quality.

 The dessert section of the table...the center of attention because let's be honest....the cake was the center!!!!

 The table scape from an angle.

 More dessert section.

 One of the two "games" we played. Night-time diapers.. write messages to Ryan on the diapers to make her laugh in the middle of the night like..."Isn't it Scoty's turn?!?!"

 The straws. Can't get enough!!

 Present time was awesome. My aunt and uncle have some amazing friends and family. This baby is loved so much already....so blessed.

 My aunt and one of her dear friends...both due soon!

Overall, the shower was fun. Everyone loved the theme especially my aunt. She wasn't allowed to know anything about the shower until she arrived.