Baby Shower aka Over the Top Extravaganza

So, we had a baby shower on Saturday. I have stressed and stressed and stressed about wanting it to be perfect. I wanted to be sure that my 16 year old knew that we were happy and she should not be ashamed. She decided to have this baby and that was reason to celebrate. Y'all, we celebrated.

Here are some photos of our event:

We had guests sign a matted photo of Peanut's sonogram picture, in lieu of a guest book. We also asked that everyone self address an envelope. In the day of social media, text messaging, and facetiming, we realized there were a lot of mailing addresses we didn't have. And in the south, hand written thank you notes are a must.

The gifts, wow at all the gifts. She got so many and actually no duplicates at all.

As a Thank You to all of our guests, we had cupcakes with a sucker with a "thank you" sticker on it.

  

We used simple milk glass with hydrangeas as the table centerpieces.

 We had a nice spread of quiches, pinwheels, cheese balls, hot dips,crackers, and cucumber sandwiches. The Princesses just had to have cucumber sandwiches.

We had a candy buffet. There are blue Laffy Taffy, because when the Princess is craving something, she just needs it! :)

Of course, there were petifores. What baby shower would be complete without petifores?

The cake, oh wow, the cake! It was wonderful. The top tier was chocolate and the bottom was plain white. It was delicious and beautiful!

This was our center table. I think it turned out beautifully. It was exactly the look we were going for.