Budget Baby Shower ~

I was so excited to be hosting a baby shower for a good friend of mine. But let me tell you...showers can get pricey QUICK! Here are some ways i was able to keep everything in budget.

First i enlisted 4 other ladies to help. That way there would be some split cost. And also we put our money together for a really big Hostess Gift!

Second we set the shower to be mid-afternoon. Why? Because it is in the middle of lunch and dinner. We were able to do small amounts of finger foods since most had already had lunch. On the menu was Baked cheese sticks, fruit tray, veggie tray, smoked bbq weenies, cheese tray and we also had fondue dark chocolate {yummy} and we had all kinds of goodies to dip in it. I of course made my red velvet cake balls!!

Third i asked some of the older ladies at church if they would let me borrow some items like.....nice white table cloths. Looks way better than cheep store bought ones and they were happy to let me borrow them. I also was able to borrow nice glass dinner plates and real silverware and silver punch bowl and glasses. SCORE!

Forth i asked the expecting mommy to be to let me use some of the onesies, socks, baby bonnets and sleepers that she already had. I simply hung them on twine with laundry clips and used that as some decoration. BTW...she loved that idea!

And one of my favorite money saving tips. Cup cakes instead of a traditional cake. NOW i didn't make the ones i brought. I got them at walmart. They are so very good and very UNexpensive! If you make them yourself they are even cheaper. Cupcakes are so big right now for parties and i think they go over very well. Plus we put together a way for them to look really GRAND! ;o)

Here are some pictures.....

The gender of the baby is unknown {i actually know} so i got pink, blue, yellow and green cupcakes. Isn't the Wrapped boxes an awesome way to display the cupcakes!!? It makes them look like a 3 tier cake!!

Here is another pic from the other side.

Food table.

This punch was DIVINE! It wasn't your regular punch. No carbonation. It was called Pineapple Float.

Baked cheese sticks...so yummy!


Table of things to be dipped in CHOCOLATE.

Same pic as above...didn't feel like deleting it. Isn't the punch bowl beautiful.

This picture turned out terrible. I don't know what happened here. Anyway....the cute little baby sleepers are hung here.

It was a good shower. She got tons of nice things. I'm so happy for her and her hubby. They are gonna be great parents.