Birthday girl? Check. Birthday cake? Check. Good friends? Check. Well then, looks like we’ve got the makings of a very special birthday party indeed.
Mum Alana wasn’t sure her daughter’s back-to-nature birthday would pass our party muster when she sent in some snaps recently. Well, we say `who needs a super-swish dessert table when Mother Nature provides such a glorious backdrop?’.
The theme of this party, to celebrate Indi’s second birthday, was simple and relaxed. It’s the complete antithesis of life as we know it with a toddler in tow, but that just makes it all the more fitting, don’t you think?
Alana invited a bunch of their closest friends to bring their bathers for a picnic by a local creek near their home in Far North Queensland. The beautiful natural setting certainly didn’t need any embellishment, but we’re loving the nectar bottles with purple, white and yellow blooms that Alana hung from the trees to frame their picnic spot. A simple idea, yes, but simply stunning too. And when the party was over, each guest got their own little bottle bouquet to take home.
A small bunch of balloons in matching colours also added to the festive air as guests tucked into an organic spread of popcorn, crudites, homemade lemonade and even some organic lollies for a sweet birthday treat! We adore the popcorn bags – plain white paper versions from Spotlight that Alana decorated with a colourful splash of paint and a darling hand-drawn portrait of the birthday girl. Again with the simple but stunning!
Alana skipped the usual icing-heavy birthday cake, opting instead to anchor the birthday candles into healthier zucchini and almond muffins she made herself. The kids didn’t mind a bit, and we hear there were no leftovers to take home.
Between all that feasting and lazing about on comfortable picnic rugs, the children (and grown-ups too) paddled and splashed the afternoon away in the charming surrounds of the creek. Alana says she considered playing music but quickly decided the sounds of the trickling water and the children laughing as they played were just too magical to drown out with amplified song.
Here’s another photo of the adorable (and ultra-happy) birthday girl, also pictured up top in her sweet fairy wings from Eeni Meeni Mini Moh, as she tucks into her birthday tea. How absolutely and utterly pinchable are those little cheeks!
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11 Comments
Absolutely perfect birthday celebration! by far, the best one ever published.
I find over the top dessert/lolly tables and party themes cringe worthy! Alanna, well done! such a beautiful celebration of your daughters life.
Gorgeous!
Really Beautiful, so simple, and yet SO much thought put into it. What a lucky Birthday girl!!!! Birthday’s can be crazy, and i LOVE to plan parties, but it is always the simplest things that get the kids going! Our party on sunday, one of the main attractions will be shoeboxes that i of course collated for free, wrapped in brown paper and stacked up like bricks for the kids to build with. cost = basically free – Entertainment and wow factor = gonna be huge!!! Congratulations of such a magically sweet party!
So cool, and i am also so over the pink tizzy overdone dessert tables.
Lovely little party!
I love this, it’s adorable! Looks so peaceful and relaxing. And what a backdrop indeed. Alana/Babyology, where is this? I’m thinking somewhere warm like the NT, it looks like a creek you would find in the NT :)
I’m a bit sad to hear people are over the fluffy pink tables though, as my daughters 5th in august in going to be very pink and fluffy hehe!
THis is the best party you have ever published!!!! We have done similar ones and they are the greatest parties!!!!! The kids have so much fun, it’s ofen something new for children and families who don’t get into nature often. Simple and no fuss is great. Ofen the fuss can be more about parents than the kids.
*OFTEN* not ofen… typo!
One of the best birthday parties you’ve featured! So serene, fun filled, elegant and real. Keep them coming!
After my two year old over indulged at her cousin’s 4th birthday party, I will ever be searching for healthy party food alternatives to sweets and cakes. Lovely party idea Alanna. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful – I can’t imagine anything more beautiful than nature as a backdrop to celebrating anyone’s life on this earth :)
I totally agree with the rest of the comments, this party is by far the best. There is no over the top art direction. I love it. Well done.