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DETAILS: WHITE MAXI DRESS (WEARING SIZE 8) share a number of the snap shots from my infant bathe closing month! It became one of these special night, it without a doubt couldn’t have grew to become out better, and I simply left feeling SO thankful for the first rate humans in my existence I get to name my friends and family!!
If you ignored my posts on social, we turned my child shower right into a charity event to raise cash for humans in need of clean water. Earlier this summer when I heard the founder of charity: water speak, I knew I wanted to do some thing to help their cause. I watched this video which, although long, will completely change the way you think about water and charities. There are nevertheless so many people within the international who don’t have get entry to to one in every of the maximum basic aspect we take for granted: easy water. In the video thousands of human beings donate their birthdays (instead of getting gifts from friends and own family, they ask you to donate the cash they would spend on a present to charity). I cherished the concept, but my birthday regarded so far away I determined to donate my child bathe! We set a goal to elevate $15k for charity:water and a stretch aim of $20k! I am so excited to mention we hit the 15k!! And are SO CLOSE to hitting the 20k! You can see greater on the fundraiser right here and you may still donate if you’re interested 🙂 100% of your donation is going to bringing households clean water.
For the shower we desired to do a colour palette of rich shades of blue (shifting a bit from the typical child blue) to symbolize our sweet child boy and clean water. This is the first time I’ve performed an event from scratch so it was a gaining knowledge of process 😉 I didn’t realize you may hire everything, which made it a lot easier having the whole thing come from one spot in preference to ordering things from a bunch of various places. I worked with Alpine Events Co. And Kristin Elizabeth Events for weddings. who helped bring collectively the most beautiful setup and design! Kristin was excellent in giving so much of her time and experience ( If you are looking for an occasion coordinator in SLC or Utah area, highly advocate Kristin!) – it wouldn’t have come together with out her and my good buddy Whitney on my team!
The event got here up so quick, I forgot to get an outfit for the shower until like 2 days before and rushed this get dressed ultimate minute. It’s truly not even a maternity dress I simply sized as much as an eight and it worked great!
These beautiful blue goblets were one in every of my preferred accessories for the table (we rented them from Alpine Events with Lol I have no idea what Beck am is doing haha – and we re missing. We she changed into at his Mom’s 🙂
You guys understand how obsessed on flowers I am, and my pass-to florist Rachel completely converted the distance along with her insane arrangements! I’m genuinely so blown away through what she can do with flowers. 😍
The child sign! This turned into a DIY project. I had seen those huge life size letters on Pinterest that stated child boy and I called a few places approximately making them and it became like 2k dollars I become shocked! I determined these letters on clearance at a domestic decor save here in Utah on accident (I wasn’t even looking) and then my Dad strung them together with fishing twine and we hung them from this gold apparel rack. Rachel introduced the lovely vegetation and ta-da!
Megan Faulkner Brown, constantly making the most stunning AND delicious treats! I use her for all our youngsters birthdays and events! How gorgeous is that this cake and her cupcakes? Still dreaming approximately that yummy mint leaf with the chocolate cupcakes. So suitable!
At the stop of the night, I shared a few clips from the authentic charity:water video that had touched me a lot. It turned into so hard to slim it right down to my favorite parts (way to Mac Vid for putting everything together so quickly!) but through the end of the night, I think anyone became able to sense what a want there’s to help. (Here’s the entire version for everyone who can take a moment to observe it – I promise you won’t regret it. ❤️)
Part of my own family and Cody’s own family 🙂 It was just a women event, however my Dad, Cody and B were all helping installation and get things ready 🙂
We did a cute Polaroid string mild station that doubled as a guest e-book where buddies and fam ought to write their guess for while the baby would be born. Love being able top reserve all those polaroids with a number of my closest friends and circle of relatives to remember the night!
One of my favourite photographs from the occasion ❤️ Mara is so enthusiastic about the child – she in reality is the best large sister!
Some of my favorite skin care and beauty manufacturers came collectively to put collectively a number of my favorite merchandise for celebration favors. I knew I desired something water related to remind human sapproximately charity: water whenever they went to use them, so we covered my preferred Lancome sheet mask (I’ve used it for years and swear by way of it – so moisturizing!), the Lanolips Lip Water (a ought to try in case you haven’t yet – specifically for winter!) all their lip products are remarkable though!, and Vichy (another skin care logo that I use all of the time) Mineral 89 which is their hyaluronic face moisturizer with 89% in their Thermal Water – so desirable!
I became dilated to a three whilst we had the infant bathe and I concept I might for positive move into hard work with in days, but it changed in to almost 2 weeks later earlier than Ollie decided to come back to the world! Can’t wait to proportion our birth tale soon, and a few images from the ultimate couple weeks at home with him. More to come back soon!
We are still jogging the Charity Water marketing campaign via the cease of this month. Any donation large or small would mean a lot! You guys have already helped enhance over $17k to date, by way of donating, spreading the word, or both! We are $2,500 from accomplishing our intention of $20k and I recognise we can do it through running collectively. Even if simply with the aid of giving up your $five Starbucks run today, each contribution counts – you may donate and read extra approximately it right here. Love you guys!
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MY BABY SHOWER CHARITY EVENT WITH CHARITY WATER -
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It really like my old wedding dress.
