While I am always obsessed with fashion and shopping, I have recently been sharing my time with my latest love, party or event styling. I swapped my usual online faves; Shopbop, ASOS and Topshop for Pinterest, Perth Party Hire and Ebay and I have had an amazing response to the result!
Thanks to a great friend of mine I was hired by the Collegians Football Club to style an event they were hosting at the Fremantle Prison. Being a 'Sportsman's Night' I went all masculine and encompassed the theme of the prison. The result: A mix of the Football Club's colours, some prison-themed props and toys (boys will always be boys, none of the toy guns were left behind!) an assortment of old jugs, jars and wood and lots of chocolate coins. Here is a snap shot of one of the table displays. Each one was different, which made it fun. There are lots more photos under the 'event styling' tab. I'd love you to check them out!
Most recently, however, I decided to throw my mum the best 50th birthday party ever! With family members flying in from South Africa and Sydney and around 50 of mum's closest friends and family it had to be good! Mum didn't want a big 'proper party' so we thought a high tea would be perfect, and it was. I thought of everything (I think), from pink parasols to shade the sun, flowing Chandon, gorgeous waiters, antique tea sets, delicious sweets, floral table runners, pink lemonade with candy striped straws, mums favourite tunes, roses and dahlias in abundance and a stunning guestlist.
Mum and I did most of the cooking and our mini lemon meringue tarts, cupcakes, rosewater meringues, strawberry tarts, mini trifle and all the rest, looked stunning on tiered cake stands with pastel doilies, and in glass lolly jars.
I was totes excited to put the floral arrangements together. Being a high tea, roses, lillies, tuber rose and dahlias were in excess. My favourite decoration was the collection of jars I hung with pink ribbon from the gorgeous cherry blossom tree.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here they are....(again, there are lots more under the 'event styling' tab.)
I can't complete this post without mentioning our outfits! It was a great excuse for me to purchase the Sass and Bide 'Great Escape' top that I have been lusting after. I teamed it with a gorgeous sequin skirt from Sportsgirl, Colette necklace and Country Road wedges. My sister Adelaide looked hot in a dress that I brought from R'nays in Hillarys, with a Sportsgirl necklace and Mum looked beautiful in a dress by Zimmermann and spearmint slip from Metalicus.
Don't forget to look at more of my happy snaps under the 'event styling' tab.
x Ella.
