This stylish OMBRE SURF BIRTHDAY BRUNCH that Ashley of Ashley Rose Photography created for her adorable son Crew is nothing short of incredible! And how smart to feature so many fun food stations that both kids and adults are sure to love – including a cereal bar, a pancake station with all the fixings, and a loaded drink station complete with chocolate milk shots for the kids and mimosas for the adults!

There are so many whimsical, creative details to be found in this darling first birthday party… from the ombre dipped cutlery and hand painted place settings to the large kraft paper photo collage and the shark fin cake pops displayed in trays lined with goldfish. One of my favorite elements has to be the beautifully styled dessert buffet showcasing Crew’s new surfboard and overflowing with incredibly yummy desserts. I also love the stamped muslin bags filled with blue shark gummies (Every surfer’s worst nightmare is much less scary in candy form, right?)! ;)

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PARTY DETAILS, as told by Ashley…

“My husband loves surfing and for Crew’s 1st birthday gift from us we had a surfboard made for him, complete with a bright blue 1 painted on it and his baby feet (imprints from the hospital) on the bottom of the board. When I actually saw the completed board I burst into tears! I adore it! He will actually be able to ride it (in a few years) and he can keep it forever. So anyways that is how we knew we had to throw him a Surf Party and because I am a crazy perfectionist I wanted to throw some other fun elements into it. Hence the OMBRE Surf Theme. I must say the girls at posh paperie were truly my biggest source of inspiration and help! They contributed sooo much and I am so grateful for Elizabeth & Karrie!!!

It all started with the invite! K & E completely designed everything for this beauty! I knew I wanted hand drawn fonts and that was about it. They came up with the most amazing invitation ever, seriously so blown away by how creative they are!!! They created Kraft Boxes (with a beautiful blue ombre address wrap) filled them with shades of blue sand. In each box were 3 little cards. One said Crew is ONE. The next one was all the party info and the last one was a lil sizing help. Saying our ‘Little Grom’s sizing is… ‘ . We have a big guy, so he has been out of 12 month clothing for quite some time. I knew I needed to let people know this. Onto all the decor details!

Ombre Tables

I tied in the ombre (graduation of color) theme into the party in several areas. Three shades of blue table cloths covered the party table. Then I created a kraft paper extra wide runner/table cloth to go over each table as well. I hand painted each place setting onto the kraftpaper along with shades of blue waves.

Decorations

• Each table had a juice jug filled with sand anchoring giant round blue balloons.
• Strewn about the tables were mini blue beach pails filled with goldfish and painted number 1’s on them.
• Each painted place setting had ombre dipped bamboo cutlery wrapped in twine on it.

Food & Drink Station

We had milk, oj, apple juice, mimosas (for the adults) and chocolate milk shots! And of course coffee, lots of coffee.

Cereal Bar

I wanted fun foods for kids so what better than a cereal bar! I ordered super cute cereal ‘bowls’ trays from GARNISH (actually I bought a ton of super cute party supplies from them!) and had a ton of cereal complete with a jar of milk to top them off!

Pancake Station

We had a pancake (and waffles too!) station, tons of toppings to add on plus fruit cups (shark fin toppers), granola bars, and muffins!”