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How to Decorate Baby Shower Invitations

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The written invitation sent through the mail, is considered to be the most gracious and respectful way to invite people to a baby shower. Usually the invitation is an expression of the theme of the party. This type of invitation can include a postage-paid envelope with your address on it as well as RSVP card, or simply your phone number or email address written inside the body of the card. Cards of this type are sold at most stationary stores. Popular stationary colors for invitations include pink (for a girl), blue (for a boy), yellow (for sex unknown) and white.

If you send out invitations by mail it is recommended that you do this at least four weeks before the event to give people a chance to respond.

A more casual, but definitely traditional approach is to simply invite individuals by phone. Hostesses on a budget or busy individuals may prefer this more immediate method.

Some individuals may prefer to send out e-vites. In this case, there are many sites on the internet that provide free pre-designed electronic cards that you can send out en masse to your guest list.

If you have glitter, markers and glue, you can create a homemade card. Homemade cards are considered to be especially heart-felt because of the time and effort put into their creation.

If you decide to make a homemade card, a color Xerox machine is your best friend. This way you can replicate a single card many times over. Cards can also be crafted using drawing programs and PhotoShop on a computer and then printed off as needed.

An easy idea for a homemade card is to acquire a picture of the mom-to-be and hand decorate it with gold and silver marker and glitter. Cards and envelopes can also be hinged and fastened with ribbons, yarn, safety pins and clothespins.

It is also quite easy to make a collage of images that match the theme of your party. For instance, if the theme is ducks, you can easily manufacture a card from images clipped out of a magazine and color Xerox it. The same can be done with stars, storks, teddy bears, angels and other classic images associated with baby’s arrival.

It is the responsibility of the person throwing the party to have a conversation with the mother-to-be and decide who is appropriate to invite. Some expectant mothers are a little shy and prefer to be surrounded by a close circle of girlfriends. Other mothers-to-be like a glossy event that almost has a business-like affair.
If the shower is a surprise party then it is perfectly o.k. to phone up her relatives and other close friends and grill them for information about who is on the mother-to-be’s good side and whose faces she would be most pleased to see at the event.

Decorative Wedding Cake Ideas

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There are a million and one ways to decorate a wedding cake. However here are a few more traditional ideas that you may not have thought of in a while.
It is very traditional for wedding cakes to be decorated with edible pearls. Edible pearls are not anything fancy. They are simply tiny balls of fondant that have been rolled into tiny balls. They are then dusted with real edible pearl dust to give them their solid and shiny appearance. Real edible pearl dust can be bought online and eating it is supposed to have the same effects on a man as Viagra. Interestingly pearl dust is also sometimes sprinkled into glasses of poured champagne at weddings to make the drink less acidic and give it an unearthly glow.

It is very hip to eat foods just as they were described in the Bible and Saffron Wedding Cake is derived from a recipe in the Bible originally referred to as a lover’s cake made out of Saffron. For centuries saffron is not only known as an aphrodisiac but as a spice its orange threads are thought to draw fertility and prosperity to whoever consumes it. However it came to represent wealth simply because the spice was originally so expensive to procure from India.

Aside from the saffron threads which turn the cake batter a golden yellow, the cake’s recipe also calls for currant, nutmegs, raisins and lemons which have been traditional ingredients in wedding fruit cakes for centuries as well.

Pink Champagne wedding cake is actually a 100-year-old tradition. The cake was invented during the roaring twenties and it is basically a white cake in which all of the liquids (like water or milk) have been replaced by pink champagne. This gives the cake a distinctive and celebratory flavor.

In fact to make it at home all you have to do is buy a white cake mix and simply substitute pink champagne or even a rose for the liquids specified in the baking instructions. The frosting is also easily made out of butter, sugar, milk and champagne as well. The cake never naturally turns out pink so a few drops of red food coloring are added to the frosting to give it a delicate pastel rose hue.

If you are Prince Charming and she is your Cinderella bride then you will definitely want to look into the wedding cakes that are shaped like castles. Palace themed wedding cakes also suit people who are having the literal “fairy-tale” wedding such as a medieval wedding or the Elvin style of wedding.