Are you curious to know if I already started planning for my daughter’s first birthday party? If you’re not, I will tell you anyway (haha!). Well, for those who know that I am very OC when it comes to planning, I’m sure you have already figured out that I have already started.
It’s been a while since I have planned a party like this for myself. Well, you’d probably think “Oh, she’s an events planner so she probably holds a lot of workshops AND parties for herself and her family…” WRONG! It’s so sad, since most of the planning that I do is for other people…. huhuhu! I think the last time I got to plan for myself was for my wedding. But of course, for my little sweetheart’s first birthday, I could and would not let this occasion pass. I want to be hands-on on this one. So last October 2014 (I think!), I started planning already for Zeeka’s birthday. Of course, it wasn’t ‘panic-mode’ planning, but more of relaxed canvassing of different suppliers.
Call me crazy, but an important part to having a great party is really the planning stage. With planning, you set the direction for everything that will happen during the party. You need to show the suppliers that you know what you want. You need to see that you have enough budget for everything that’s necessary.
For Zeeka’s party, my theme will be….
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
I think it’s the perfect them for Zeeka, since she has this bright and sunny disposition always. She makes her DADA and me smile all the time. 🙂 Plus, the character reminds me of Zeeka… hehe!
Little Miss Zeeka!
This is actually the title slide of a presentation composed of 17 slides. I love Power Point and I use it for everything — even Zeeka’s first birthday party. This presentation is made out of little notes that I made for my possible and chosen suppliers. It has pictures of pegs and samples of how I would want things to look like. It sets the tone, mood and feel of the entire event.
The notes in the slides are detailed. I will show the slides to you as I go through each supplier one by one this month, since February’s posts are dedicated to planning for Zeeka’s party (I’m sure i’ll be preoccupied with that so I thought about writing a about it).
As for the budget, looking at the actual costs, it turns out that the total budget that I have when divided by the number guests (approximation) turns out to be around Php 1200 – Php 1500 per person (but that’s just me). If you want a breakdown of the costs on a per ‘type of expense’ basis, do leave a comment in this post and i’ll email it to you. The costs that I will email you is based on what I have for Zeeka. Your costs can actually increase or decrease based on certain priorities that you have (for example, if you really really want a videographer, then you can add that to the budget that I made or if styro backdrops are not necessary for you, then you can adjust that in the budget that I made).
Again, throughout February, I will be featuring party suppliers which I have worked with for Zeeka’s first birthday party. If you are offering a unique product that I might be interested in getting since it works with Zeeka’s theme, do let me know.
For those who want to share their own parties and if you want to be featured in my blog, feel free to check out the guidelines on this page: http://mommyginger.com/party-planning.
Enjoy planning!
hi mommy ginger! i always visit your blog when i have the time 🙂 i’m also starting to plan for my daughter’s 1st bday on september. i might get some ideas from your list of suppliers 🙂 hope to hear from you soon! thanks in advance!
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Yey! We can plan together, Lesley! 🙂 Fuuuun!
This is so exciting! 🙂 I’m also OC myself. Good luck and enjoy! Looking forward to reading your blog about party planning. I’m about to blog my baby’s 1st bday party too but I just lack the time to compose/recall everything. 🙂
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Hi Sally!!! 🙂 Hehe! Thanks so much for agreeing to help out ha! 🙂 Hugs!
For sure, I will always visit your blog. I love planning specially if it’s kiddie party. I also organized the party of my daughter last November. 😀
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Hi Lally! Do email me a write up and pictures of the party you organized for your daughter. I can feature it in the Party Planning section of this blog 🙂
Good luck on planning your baby’s birthday party! I remember when I was planning for my daughter’s 1st birthday party, my husband and I wanted something simple and fuss-free. Since we also had limited budget, we decided on getting the Jollibee Kiddie Party Package. Worked for us, my daughter loved seeing Jollibee, too. 🙂
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Hi Michelle! Thanks for visiting! 🙂 I plan to hold her 2nd birthday onwards in Jollibee too! 🙂 I love Jollibee! I have such happy memories of the brand when I was little 🙂
Hi, Ginger.
My daughter will have her 1st birthday in December. The theme would be a little ray of sunshine (very close to your little miss sunshine theme).
I’ve been looking for ideas since last week. Then I came across your suppliers blogs. I love the details of Zeeka’s party. When I read that you’re willing to share the details of your party via email (suppliers/costs/preps), I did not hesistate to send this comment. Your help will be very much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Hi Sherie! 🙂 I would love to help out 🙂 Please send me an email of anything you would like to ask (ginger(at)mommyginger(dot)com 🙂 Looking forward to receiving your email!