WINTER WHITE BABY SHOWER FOR LAUREN

As part our #TBT Party Series, we're sharing Lauren's baby shower today! Lauren is our bestie and the owner of Rock Paper Scissors, where Jenni and I met and worked pre-babies. It's quite possibly the cutest and most creative paper boutique... we're planning a comprehensive post on this later, but for now, here is her baby shower for little Piper (who is turning 2 next week!). She and husband, Tim, wanted a party that wasn't too girly since it was a couple's shower, so we decided on a winter white theme. The party was in January and the weather certainly fit the theme. Lauren's good friends Pauline (who's gorgeous home you see here), Randi, and  sister-in-law Gretchen were the gracious co-hostesses.

We hung parasols from the ceiling using fishing line and clear 3M Command hooks.

All white dessert table with vanilla cupcakes, macarons, meringues, sparkling sugar cookies, and white candy covered oreo truffle pops to match the winter white theme. The middle... is a diaper cake! 

Most of the guys were truly disappointed to find out this was a diaper cake and not a real cake. I'll share the tutorial with you soon! It's pretty easy and is a great gift for the parents-to-be.

My favorite project to make was this "family tree". I asked Lauren and Tim's parents to secretly send me three generations of family photos. I scanned in the photos and made them the same size, mounted them on sparkly white paper to match the theme and hung on a branch spray-painted white. On the bottom level, I hung a blank card that said "Baby Rauter". Oh, and Maggie, their sweet dog, is on there too! She's the big sis after all.  

Little babies Lauren and Tim! 

Instead of a traditional guest book I tied 12 envelopes together, one for each month of Piper's first year. Then we asked the guests to write advice or encouragement on the cards and place it in the corresponding envelope. Lauren and Tim opened an envelope each month and got to read what their family and friends wrote throughout the year!

Gorgeous letterpress invitation designed by Lauren's BFF, Dabney of Dabney Lee. The back was covered in a silver snowflake pattern. Perfection.

Lauren and Tim sipped hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows and opened gifts in style in the all white indoor tent. 

Party favors were tiny milk jars and mini pumpkin donuts from Ellie's Donuts- everyone's fav in Franklin, Tennessee. Drooling right now.

Pauline's insanely beautiful home with projected snowflakes and faux snow lining the walk way. That's how you enter a party, am I right?

*Photographs by Twinkle Twinkle Images

-L