The Baby Shower was held at the Darby House, an event space sitting on 4000 acres of pristine horse farm and rolling countryside outside of Columbus. Because Caitlin is an event planner for the venue, they allowed her to use the entire thing for the whole day!
In the entryway, Caitlin designed vinyl lettering to go on the windows from our friends at Wonderful Graffiti, displaying the "theme" of nesting! A wire tree sculpture was hung with little bird-stamped tags.
On the tree, guests were encouraged to write notes and prayers for our growing family!
The room was set up beautifully, using chocolate brown and light blue and green linens. It was also a truly stunning day!
As you can tell, this is going to be a picture-heavy post, and most of them were taken by my friend and photographer, Robin Oatts of Genre Creative and Spindle Studios. She is fiercely talented (you may also remember her from such website designs as Wild Goose Creative).
The food was just incredible, and was made by my talented friends and family! We had English scones with lemon curd, jam, and clotted cream, chicken and egg salad sandwiches on pretzel rolls, watermelon and feta salad, tortellini salad, fruit kebabs, and an array of beautiful cookies.
The cake was made by Columbus' own Sue Larson, who is a master sugar artist as well as baker of beautiful cakes. The nest on top of the cake is made of light brown pure spun sugar with three handmade marzipan robin's eggs inside.
The centerpieces are Caitlin Foley specials, with grapevine nests and multicolored tulips with spaghnum moss and thistle in ceramic sage green containers. I'm a bit biased, but she is the most amazing floral designer in the universe! The little brown bag favors were made my my dear friend (and fellow Wild Goose) Jessie, and contain a special blend of my favorite tea with a beautiful note and perfectly coordinated paper and bird stamps. The blue candles are from Paul Robinett's.
Jessie and Jacqui are sporting the pacifier necklaces on blue grosgrain ribbon that people got to take from you if they heard you use the word "baby." My sister Marina was rabid at this game! 
Here I am, applauding Jacqui (also a fellow Goose and good friend) for her handiwork on Peanut, the Wee Elephant, a stuffed animal she made for Baby D!
And here is more craftiness going on, as guests (Caitlin, Carolyn, Lisa, Mandi, and Amanda) decorate onesies, hats, and socks for our little boy!
All in all, it was a truly overwhelmingly beautiful day. I want to sincerely thank everyone who was involved in the planning and the execution of the shower! Like I said, it was so honoring and humbling to have our friends and family show so much excitement and anticipation for our little boy. I can't wait to introduce him to each and every one of you!P.S. Some of you may be wondering where Nick was during the shower...well, he was down the hall, where the guys had thrown him a Man Shower! :) I'll let him tell you about it!
4 comments:
I just adore the nesting theme.
It was a fabulous shower! We were so glad that we could be there for it! Baby D is going to be one well-dressed little guy! I'm particularly jealous of all of his shoes! We should all be so lucky!
Hmmm...was it a Man Shower? A "shower" usually implies gifts, and Nick didn't directly receive any gifts. It may have been a Man Gathering, but those events usually involve a groom-to-be. You could call it a "Wii-party", though. Pizza, pop, Wii and a popcorn machine - yeah, that sounds right.
GORGEOUS! these pictures look like a feature out of a magazine! your friends and family are to be commended: they did a FABULOUS job. i so wish i could've been there! glad to hear you had such a good time, beth. you deserve it!
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