Alice in Wonderland

Later this year our first baby girl Julie, is turning 5! I have no idea how this happened, one second she was a baby the next she is a 5 year old! The last two years she has had very small parties (a popsicle party and a rainbow pancake party-what can I say she is a creative kid) so we told her she could have a big party to celebrate such a big age, and she chose Alice in Wonderland. I will admit I may have had a little influence in this choice, I have been wanting to plan an Alice in Wonderland party for a while so I knew how to sell it.

 Julie loves bright colors, knickknacks, clutter, and general fabulousness so an Alice in Wonderland party is the perfect fit. The party starts at the front door where guest are greeted with some mini ‘eat me’cookies (so that they can fit down the rabbit hole), inside the house we will have a huge table set up full of mirrors, hats and gloves-so that our guests are dressed for the party. As our guest walk through the hosue they will see brightly colored paper lanterns, a table full of rainbow ‘drink me’ drinks-with matching straws of course, and giant paper flowers.
Julies birthday is in September and our yard gets sunny and hot, so her party will be held under a set of white patio covers with tulle curtains attached to give it a more private feel. Inside are more lanterns, flowers and pennants, bright, gaudy and eccentric seem to be the mad hatters style! A huge table will be set for all of our guests. Books, flamingos, feathers, teacups, and flowers will be down the center of the table, instead of having a separate food table we will have all the food placed on towers throughout the table.
Daddy has already been working on giant cut outs of characters so that guests can pose and take pictures, and big brother Jayden is planning a Cheshire cat scavenger hunt and flamingo croquet game.
 There is lots of time before this party so we can make a weekly trip to the good will to search for tea cups, tea pots, and other fun trinkets for our table!
We also havent figured out our gift for our friends so any suggestions would be welcome!!