Vintage Wedding Shower

~ Vintage Wedding Shower ~

I love planning parties, so me being the maid of honor had the privilege of giving my sister her wedding shower, along with my other sister. It all started with an idea for the theme. We decided to do a "Vintage/Family History Theme". My sister is having a 1940's Vintage wedding so we tried to keep with her theme without taking anything away from it. After we figured out a theme we began planning decor and foods. We couldn't go ALL out like I would have loved to, because we had a budget so we just had to be creative.

The Food: We wanted all of the food to be mainly pink and white. All of our dishes were either White Pfaltzgraff Heritage our Pink Depression Glass. We thought that having all the food and dishes color coordinated would give it a nice, polished look.  

Strawberry Fruit Salad

Carrot Cake

Turkey Sandwiches

Brie Cheese & Crackers

Pink Lemonade Cake

Vanilla Cupcakes

White Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Display Cake (from Sugar Monkey Cupcakes) 
sugarmonkeycupcakes.com

 

The drink table. 

  The Decor: The decor was obviously vintage. The color scheme were vintage colors, pink and mint green. We tried to incorporate as much vintage as we could in the design without going over budget. 

  

We incorporated the pink and mint green at the dessert table with the pom poms
and balloons. I had to make the pom pom in the middle because I couldn't find it in the color I wanted. I'm not the really crafty type, but making the pom pom was very easy.
(Here's a link to the tutorial: Homemade Pom Pom Tutorial )

  

My boyfriend made this really awesome tree to go with our family history theme.
We put all of our families pictures on the tree all the way back to our great - great - great grandparents.

 

We put one of my sister's engagement pictures in an oval frame and painted it the same color as the tree. 

   

The rocking chair and vintage items were taken from our home.

 I thought it would be neat to have vintage items on the gift table that would have been used as wedding shower gifts. I didn't think it would be possible to find all of these items at budget-friendly price, but my mom found them. I thought it enhanced that vintage feel that we were going for. 

 

The tables had 3 mason jars which displayed vintage family photos and a
white milk glass vase. 

 

My sister thought that popcorn bags would be a good favor. I came up with the corny lil' saying on the tag. "Ben popped the question and she said YES!" 

    

We had the bride-to-be come dressed up 1940's vintage clothes.

Mother of the bride, Bride-to-be, Maid of Honor, Sister of the Bride. 

  

The bride-to-be was very surprised and well pleased with how it all turned out. It 

was definitely worth her not being able to go in our basement for two and a half weeks.