‘flower market’ for a paris themed birthday party
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The trend of ‘create your own bouquet’ stations and flower bars at parties and showers is one of my very favorites.
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Since Piper loves it as well, we decided to incorporate a ‘french flower market’ into her Paris themed birthday party this year.
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The only catch? In the southern hemisphere (aka- New Zealand, aka- where we live), it is the middle of winter and fresh flowers are not only hard to come by, they are crazy expensive right now.
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Good thing I’ve had a minor obsession with paper flowers over the years, right?
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(FYI- a whole roundup of paper flower tutorials, gorgeous crepe paper flowers, 10-minute paper flowers, tissue paper flowers).
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For this Paris-party flower market, we modified the ten minute flower tutorial to attach to paper petals to bamboo skewers (by using the skewer as the ‘flower center,’ using a similar process to the tutorial and then making everything look nice and neat with floral tape between the paper ‘petals’ and bamboo ‘stem’).
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Then we hunkered down and made a pile of tissue paper and crepe paper flowers (we used both types of paper).
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After we had enough paper flowers for each guest to make a small bouquet, we set up a little cart with recycled glass jars (wrapped in floral gift wrap), added signage (and more paper flowers), put together a menu en Francias, and voila- the most perfect french flower market.
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(I should note- this little flower bar was a HUGE HIT with the Paris Party guests.)
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C’est magnifique!
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Other Paris party goodness-
Amazing set ! It feels like a little French market 😉
Thanks- totally the goal! 😉