CELEBRATING THE DAY OF THE DEAD: THE PARTY MAGIC WAY Parents who have children born on the first week of November have a curious a predicament: how do you celebrate your child’s birthday so near All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day? I should know. My own father-in-law’s birthday is exactly on November 1st! The youngest member of my family, my niece Aimee Yeung, was literally minutes away from this same situation. She was born October 31st, 2016, at 11:57pm. Talk about...
HELLO, 2017 As mentioned in a previous blog post, as much as possible it is very important to plan out your birthday parties 6 months in advance. The net effect of this on event stylists such as I is that while everyone right now is looking forward to Christmas and the holidays, I am tediously concerned with the execution of my parties for this coming weekend and also with the planning of parties for next year 2017! Even as we speak the Party Magic crew is busy conceptualizing, booking...
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...
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...
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...