teddy bears & hearts

we are starting to send out our invitations. well, the softcopy that is. but we'll get the real ones within the week, so we can send those out too.

it was quite difficult to cut down our guest list. as much as we want to invite everyone we know, we're limited with the capacity of our function room. so we had to priotitize. so if you didn't get invited to the party, it means... what? nothing really, just that the space is limited hahaha.

i attached the front of our invitation card. it's suppose to be a business card type invitation (i conceptualized it!). i originally didn't want a theme, just thinking about the usual kiddie party themes makes me want to shout. i just want something unique for my daughter's party. then i thought about what the cake will look like if i don't have a theme, and the invitation, and the setup of the place and the other party stuff.. so at first i thought about fairies and pirates.... and then angels and bubbles.... then, i saw a cake by Bohemia Cakes in their display at Rockwell ... and fell in love with her teddy bear inspired cake design. Then it all fell into place... i want teddy bears... and i want hearts to go with it so it wouldn't be plain teddy bears! and to put more meaning to my daughter's 1st birthday, we want to do something for charity. so we're requiring our guests to bring as much teddy bears as they can (brand new or used but in good condition), then we can give this to the kids at CRIBS in marikina.

i want trisha to have a nice 1st birthday party. a lot of people say 1 yr olds will not remember their birthday party... but i want good memories of this party that trisha can look back to when she's older. after all, we can always keep pictures and videos and most importantly, the kwentos that our guests (who are mostly really close friends) will share with her about this party.

maybe we'll invite the same people during her 18th birthday and share a video of this 1st birthday party....

i have 17 years to plan for that... :)