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Plan Your Party in 15 Minutes: Everything You Need To Know To Plan Your First Birthday Party

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PLANNING YOUR FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY? Consider this: You’re a first-time mom with a 9 month old baby girl. Besides the occasional birthday parties you’ve attended from the distant relative, you have close to ZERO first-hand experience with children’s parties, let alone in planning one from scratch. But that’s okay. You just planned and went through your wedding. Compared to that, birthday parties should be a walk in the park. Right? Well…. Does this look familiar...

Alex’s Calvin and Hobbes Party: A Journey Through The Woods

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MY DAUGHTER’S INVISIBLE BEST FRIEND Let me tell you a bit about my eldest daughter’s best friend, “Joonie”. Sometimes she’s 3 years old, other times 5. Sometimes she’s about the same height as a typical 4 year old, sometimes she’s as tall as a spoon. Joonie likes candy, chocolates, and riding the train, but her mom is quite the nag and asks her come home early from play time everyday. Joonie is my daughter’s longest best friend. She happens to be...

Super Hiro: A Mario Brothers Rumble!

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THE REASON WHY I STARTED THIS BLOG After having written back-to-back articles on various recommended suppliers (see here for food carts and here for photographers), I feel like it is now time to come back to the reason why I started this blog in the first place: to share the parties of my wonderful clients. And this one is a real winner – the theme is Super Mario Brothers! THE LAZY DAD THEORY After many years in the business, I think I stumbled upon a revelation: the only chance the dad...

Catering Service Spotlight Review – The Creamery – Delectable Gourmet Food at a Very Reasonable Price

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT CATERER As you all might already know, one of the very important things to first tackle when you’re throwing a party is to nail down a catering service that you’d like to hire. And why is this? Practically speaking, 90% of your guests will be going to your party for one major reason: to eat. So if you’re going through all the trouble of organizing a birthday party, you might as well make sure your guests leave the premises with their stomachs fulfilled! When...

The No. 1 Videographer On My Reco List

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DO I REALLY NEED A VIDEOGRAPHER FOR MY CHILD’S BIRTHDAY? Surprisingly, this is a question more commonly asked than you’d normally think. My own position is this: Videos are a great way to capture memories of your child’s special day, and are sometimes even more effective than photos. My own favorite usage of video is this: a few years after Sofie’s (my eldest) birthday party, I let her watch the video coverage of her own 1st birthday. You should see her reaction! I think...

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