a pink oasis baby shower

a baby shower for a baby girl

This particular event I hold near and dear to my heart. Sara and I have been friends since my sophomore year of college. We become super close junior year and ended up living together with two other of our closest friends my senior year. So when it came to her baby shower, I wanted to do as much as I could to help make this day beautiful for her!

Similar to Mrs. Sara's wedding; the rain would not stop this baby shower from happening! In a very special location, Sara and 30 of her closest family and friends shared the rainy day at her grandmother's house on her patio to come together to shower (no pun intended) her with love. Sara was 30 weeks pregnant (absolutely stunning might I add) at the time and was expecting her sweet baby girl, Sutton Grace, very soon!

Sara reached out to me about helping her mom plan a baby shower back in March of 2020 for her expectant baby girl due in September. For many people, this can be a taunting and stressful task, given that Sara is her mom's only child and will be her first grandchild. I understand the pressure! I immediately said, "absolutely, yes!". Also to make matters more difficult, we are all still struggling with a world pandemic, COVID-19. Will we, won't we? How many people can we have? Are masks required?

After going back and forth between a few dates and discussing the different type of governmental guidelines in place (because who doesn't discuss government interference for events now-a-day!?); in April, we made the executive decision on when to settle on a date and it needed to be at least 5 weeks out to mail invites. In May, we finalized on a Sunday at the end of June and were able to send out invitations 4-5 weeks out. 

After that decision was made; The first thing we did together was discuss invite designs! Sara and I went back and forth on different style invites and this is the one we decide on. We thought it was absolutely perfect! My advice is to look around. We shopped online at different websites like Zazzle, Shutterfly, Minted, etc. But, don't forget websites like Etsy. They have super cute designs that you download and print off yourself. If you don't have a printer, you can still take to a place like Staples and they can help print them for you. Think outside the box a little!

​We found this design on Etsy and were able to customize to fit Sara's shower. We used ivory card stock and there ya go! Perfect!
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Side note; for some quick math, the invites we saw that was similar to this was around $2.50-$3.00 per invite. We we're sending out around 50-60 invites. Buy purchasing the template on Etsy, this saved me roughly $80.00-$100.00!

We did the baby book inset the same way, from Etsy! 

For the rest of the shower, we did food items like some great finger foods and dips along with cake pops, fruit and vegetable platters, and complete with a "Mom"-osa bar. We did several games like, "When will be Sutton's birthday", "What did the Dad say?" and the most laughable - baby bottle chug race!

We also set up a little backdrop with the ballroom arch and some flower decor. The tables were covered with white linen, a cheesecloth garland (one of my personal favorite decor pieces), with some inexpensive vases and fake pink and white flowers.
Here's a little decor tip for you; even though the flowers are fake, still put water in the vases; it makes it seem a bit more real (at least) from a distance.

Lastly, we finalized the touches with some little frames with cute quotes and a photo of the Mom-To-Be and ultrasound photos. 
The day finished with Sara opening all of cute and precious gifts for baby and the parents! We had such a blast and I am so happy to be able to be apart of it! 

For reference, here is a brief timeline of events for the mid-day shower!