Party Menu from Baby Nathan's Kitchen and MyChocolateHeaven

Just to add excitement to our special guests, i'm sharing below foods that will be served for Missy and CJ's birthday party.


From Baby Nathan's Kitchen Catering, we ordered the following menu for the adults:
1.Steamed Rice
2. choice of Pork: Porkloin Tips with Oyster Sauce
3. choice of Chicken: Lemon Chicken
4. choice of Pasta/Noodles: Baked Macaroni
5. choice of Vegetables: Vegetable Tempura
6. DESSERT Leche Flan
7. One round of Iced Tea

For the kids and yayas we ordered the following :
1. Chicken
2. Spaghetti
3. Tetra juice


From MyChocolateHeaven, i'm adding the following items for dessert:

1. Black Forest Mini Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Frosting
2. Moist Lemon Mini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
3. Carrot Walnut Mini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
4. Cheesecake Brownies
5. Creme de Menthe Brownies
6. Dark Chocolate Fondue on one chocolate fountain
7. Purple Chocolate Fondue on one chocolate fountain
8. Pink Chocolate Fondue on one chocolate fountain
9. And the following dippers :
- Marshmallows,
- Chocolate Wafer Sticks
- Rosquillos
- Pretzels
- Melon
- Apple

For the cupcake souvenirs, cupcake flavors would be the following:
1. Peanut Butter Cupcake with Chocolate Cream Icing
2. Banana Chocolate Cupcake with Purple Whipped Cream Frosting
3. Moist Chocolate Cupcake with Pink Whipped Cream Frosting

Their cake would be a guitar and star shaped Moist Chocolate Cake.=)

And we're also bringing in chips and nuts as pica-pica and additional iced tea beverage for everyone!

Some additional notes:
2 kinds of food stubs will be distributed to the guests upon registration. Stub in pink Food Stub message will be given to kids ages 3 to 12 years old and yayas. And stub in purple Food Stub message are for guests ages 13 and up. Note that the dessert bar does not need any stub and will be open to everyone at anytime during the party. And lootbags will be given to all kids regardless of their age:)

Birthday Parties!

One of the things I enjoy as a mom is doing the preparation for my daughter’s birthdays. And since I love art, I get pleasure from adding my personal touch on the DIYs I make.

As mentioned on one of my previous posts, I have already started with some designs for the favors and tarpaulin for my youngest daughter’s coming 1st birthday this September. I’m still not done with the other birthday party supplies though. Right now I am focusing on searching for a good cake supplier near our area. I have already received an email from one of the popular cake suppliers in my mommy group. But since I want the design of my daughter’s bratz cake to look cool and unique, I have to search for sample designs on the internet so I can have a better idea of how I want my daughter’s bratz cake to look like. I am really excited to do this!

Other than the cake, I might also get other bratz party supplies as well. Thank God I have some funds on my Paypal account! With this, I believe ordering online won’t be a hassle.

However, since we’re on a tight budget, I have to search for suppliers that can provide me discount party supplies. I hope I can find one that sells edible bratz cake design so I can order it and give it to my cake supplier soon! :)

DIY Preps for my little CJ's coming 1st birthday

All mommies are excited to prepare for their baby's first birthday party. But with the rising cost of our basic commodities, mommies nowadays learn to create ways on how to minimize the budget for the parties they throw.

I for one rebudgeted for my baby's coming birthday party. From my initial 30k budget, i had to trim it down to 15k.

Here are some things i did / plan to do to make this 15k budget a reality:

1. Change the party place.
The manager of Max's Restaurant in Greenhills is one of our daughter's godmother and since she volunteered to help and give discounts, our first choice was Max's. I have already started doing some DIYs with the Royal Theme in concept but since i had to cut on the budget, we've decided to have the party in Jollibee McKinley instead. My reason for choosing this Fastfood resto:

a. All kids love Jollibee
b. The Jollibee mascot is already included in the package, and
c. the mascot also gets to dance, and join the fun for 30 mins!
d. It's very near our place. Most of our guest are our neighbors so this is a big plus factor if we think of convenience.
e. Ofcourse the package is cheap! Eveything is included like the name tag, the lootbags, the invitations, the decors, the party host, the games, and the prices..

2. Photo/Videographer.
I wanted to hire a pro, but since im on a tight budget, my friends/cousins would be a great option here.

3. Create my DIYs.
My budget will not afford professional party planners. So to make this party more special, I started using my artistic talents to do the backdrop, souvenirs/table centerpiece, and signature frame..

Here are some of my DIY's.

Hey, feel free to comment coz i can still do some adjustments here.

Thanks for the read!

Wedding Disc Jockeys?

Ever heard of professional wedding disc jockeys here in the Philippines? I am aware that some filipinos do hire sound system with the disk jockey included for their weddings. But professional Disk Jockeys?? Are you crazy? Or better question is, do we have that here in the first place? I don't think so.. I did try to do ask Mr. Google but the unlucky me did not find any. This maybe due to the fact that most filipinos still prefer listening to live singers or orchestras rather than having disk jockey's play music for them.

But guess what? These professional wedding disc jockeys do exists and is starting to be a hit in America. Most of them are located in the State of California. Check out the San Diego DJs as an example. If you look at their services, you might also get interested because, other than their disk jockey service, they also provide other wedding services such as events planning and music videos.