Breakfast at Tiffany's Party

The day finally arrived! After weeks of planning, we celebrated Suzanne's 50th birthday in style!

The hostess committee as well as the guests all dressed in black dresses and pearls to set the tone of the party.

On Friday, Sandy, Debbie and I headed down to the LA flower mart to buy the fresh flowers for the party. I bought white roses, white stock, blue hydrangeas and day lillies.

Most of the arrangements were done in mint julep cups to give a nod to Suzanne's Southern heritage.

I bought little Tiffany blue boxes and they were filled with Hershey kisses and tied with a white ribbon. The "tea girls" gave Suzanne a Breakfast at Tiffany's themed basket filled with champagne, the movie, cracker jacks and a "Tiffany"-style bracelet.

Belinda hosted it at her home and here she is decorating the Red Velvet cake (another Southern favortie of Suzanne's)

Marina was carefully making the mini Bloody Mary shrimp cockatils. They were a little top heavy and Marina happened to bump one of the glasses and they all went down like dominoes!

I did the mini lemon wedges.

Oops!

Marina doesn't seem too upset. We just roll with the punches!

Yummy cupcake petit fours that Marina made.

Favor boxes

Blue Raspberry Tootsie Roll Pops and Tifany Blue mints.

Easy to make tissue balls. About 50 cents each.

Dessert table complete with to-go boxes.

I made the crystal tree with branches from my front yard tree. I spray painted it white, used 14 gauge wire to support the branches. Then I hung the crystals with fishing wire.

It looked so pretty with the candlelight.

We served tea sandwiches, bruchetta, onion souffle and crackers and mushroom pinwheels. I made the punch (that was blue) out of Berry Blue Kool Aid, frozen Pina Colada mix and Sprite. The martini glasses were lined with blue sugar.

Suzanne was very surprised. She had no idea what the theme was. We just told her to wear black and pearls. Her mom flew out from North Carolina to join us.

The hostesses and birthday girl.

Sandy with the birthday cake.

That's 50 candles on there!

There were also 50 guests there to celebrate.

Suzanne loved her bracelet.

I made up a DVD of Suzanne's family photos and told them the entire horror story of "losing" the wedding pictures.

Suzanne had such a wonderful time and her mama said it was the best party Suzanne ever had! I just know that we love Suzanne and had a great time putting it together for her.

Next, we will be planning a 50th birthday party for Marina in November.