Emily’s Woodland Fairy Party

I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing holiday weekend! As promised, I am SO excited to show you some pics from Emily’s Woodland Fairy Party. There were so many fabulous fairy parties this summer. I have say, when the suggestion to do one crossed my desk, I definitely wondered how we could approach it so that it had it’s own unique flavor. So in the spirit of my previous post, here’s a little peek behind the inspiration curtain.

It all started with this photo…

Can’t you just get swept away in it??! For me there has always been something about birch forests that is so magical. So I used this image as the basis for the invitation…

Then I used the invitation as the jumping off point for all the other elements that were incorporated into in the tablescape…

And I do mean “tablescape”. For this party, I mulled over the word “tablescape” a lot. I wanted the table to feel like a landscape. Like a forest floor. Like the birch forest we were using for inspiration.

I knew that we wouldn’t have any of the sparkling yellow sunbeams to highlight our table. So as a substitute, I created a forsythia tree (tutorial here) to add a bright, golden cheeriness to our “landscape”.