The brief
An expectant family wanted a baby shower that felt like the start of a journey, warm, wanderlust, a little wild, without tipping into a literal jungle theme.
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Baby Shower
Adventure Awaits.
A travel-and-safari baby shower styled end to end, organic balloon garlands in sage, sand, and clay, a vintage settee lounge, grazing tables, and a world-map cake, hosted inside an Indianapolis pastry shop.
- Client
- Private baby shower
- Role
- Full event styling & design
- Year
- 2020
- Type
- Baby Shower
The approach
Built organic balloon installations in sage, sand, and clay with trailing greenery and dried botanicals, then layered a vintage damask settee, brass lanterns, and persian rugs underneath for a lived-in lounge. Travel cues stayed subtle: a world-map cake, compass-and-map favor boxes, and 'Adventure Awaits' in gold script.
The outcome
Lounge, grazing tables, dessert, and a guestbook station all tied to one palette, a shower that read as an adventure from the entrance arch to the diaper cake.
The day, styled
6 moments
A sage, sand, and clay balloon arc with trailing greenery and dried botanicals framing a damask settee and gold 'Adventure Awaits' lettering.
A grazing table of charcuterie and fruit boards under a sage-and-brown balloon installation, with a naked cake at the end.
A world-map fondant cake beside a smaller hammock-scene cake, styled with wildflowers in amber bud vases.
Layered charcuterie and fresh-fruit boards on a live-edge bar with champagne chilling and stemware lined up behind.
The venue entrance wrapped in a sage-and-clay balloon arch over a favor-box display, set against a painted botanical mural.
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