Last few weeks, a reader of my blog ask me how to planned baby 1st Birthday Party. So, this week I would like to take the opportunity to explain few basic things how to plan baby 1st Birthday Party before we go deeper. And the rule of thumb must remember…how much budget that you are willing to allocate for your baby 1st Birthday Party.
Baby 1st Birthday Party Planning
1. Mark you calendar
Always mark you calendar at least 6 months before your baby 1st Baby Birthday Party so that you can know on which date your baby birthday date will fall down. As for my Baby Rayyan, his birth date will be on the 24th of May, so it fall on Monday. It depends on you wheter you would like to organize it before his actual birthday or later. Some people may not want to have their baby birthday earlier than it should be. They said is a bad luck. But, sometimes we wanted to have the real date to be kept among the families. Like us. Since Baby Rayyan birthday is going to be on Monday, we would extend the party to Sunday. It’s end of the month and weekend. Perfect!
2. Allocate budget for the party
BUDGET! It is the most important element of all. Without proper budget, you might gone way further of spending unnecessary things. It happen to me all the time when I have not enough time. Baby 1st Birthday Party can be in 3 different sizes : SMALL (10-12 guest), MEDIUM (30-50 guests) and LARGE(70 to 100 guest). There is the time when baby 1st Birthday party is like a wedding party. A sucessful party doesn’t mean that you need extra expensive things, decorations and foods to be in the party. A sucessful party is when the party is well organise and also guest who attend the party enjoy themselves.
3. List your guest
List of guests can be start from family members, close friends and also officemate. Preferable family and friends who have kids. This is because , this is a baby 1st Birthday Party not adult party! Encourage them to bring all of their children and take note on it. You don’t want to have short supply of goodies bag at the end of the day. List of guest will also help you in keeping ur budget in the right track. You will know how much food to be ordered, goodies bag to prepared and tables and chairs for guest to sit down.
4. Choice of theme
If you done with those 3 step of planning, now move on to Baby 1st Birthday party theme. Theme can be range from fairytale, favourite cartoons character, educational tv program or freestyle. Most parents will definately goes for Sesame Street, Elmo, Barbie, Fairy Tale, Prince and Princess and etc. Because Malaysia still not fancy of those theme, some may departed at the end of the day and choose to have freestyle or mix theme. Choose a theme that you can find item needed easily. This will definately save time and budget.
5. What to be served?
What to be served is depend on your budget, type of guest attending, time and theme. If you are doing in very limited budget, finger food such as nuggets, chicken boxing, fried noodles, hot dog, 2 type of desserts, 2 type of drinks and also some candy and chocolate served up to the table. If finger food look not pleasent, meet some good caterers aroun d KL that offer variety of food selection at reasonable price. Some of them are Group Base & Kuzam Caterings. As for me I have use Kuzam since my married day and Group Base was introduce to me by my mom friends and I have use their services for Baby Rayyan Aqiqah Event. Both of the food is delicious and super duper plenty…
6. Goodies Bag
Things that children been waiting for! Actually don’t point the finger to kids….we ourselves will eager to have a goodies bag! I love goodies bag because I can find many things inside it! A goodies bag can be simple to adventures goodies bag. Now days, parents loves to include pieces of children play toys and lots of candies. It remind me of of halloween! An option of goodies bag can be combination of chocolate & candies, thank you card, some may put boiled eggs, small teddy bears, souviner and small toys.
7.Birthday Cake
A birthday can’t be more cheerful to have a birthday cake and birthday candle to be blow. A birthday cake can range from super duper delicious to super duper creative and goergeous birthday cake. But as baby 1st birthday make it according to theme and let the guests share the taste of the birthday cake. Some caterer may required a certain periodjust to prepare your choice of birthday cake. What I can suggest is to have westin super yummy cheese cake or delicious chocolate cake.
Party without decorations can not called a party! A decorations may range from simple to extravanganza. It is depend on your very own budget allocation and also theme.
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