This past Saturday was Lilly’s first birthday party! We had such an amazing time with just a few friends and family members loving on Lilly, eating delicious food, and enjoying the company. I will go ahead and warn you, that this is an extremely picture-heavy post. And I am 130% okay with it.

When I was trying to decide what we wanted to do for Lilly’s first birthday party as far as the theme goes, the idea popped in my head of doing a Lilly Pulitzer themed birthday party. At first I was like, “Ehhh, do I REALLY wanna do a Lilly themed party? Is that too cliche?” And then I thought… “Heck yes, I want to do a Lilly themed party. This is probably my only chance to ever do one!”

*Also, in case you’re wondering (because I get this question a lot), no, Lilly is NOT, in fact, named after Lilly Pulitzer. Yes, I love Lilly Pulitzer, but I loved the named Lilly my whole life and when my husband and I were talking about baby names, I brought up the name Lilly and he immediately loved it. When we were deciding on how we wanted it spelled, we liked the symmetry of two Ls in Lilly and two Ls in Stillman. Haha!

Anyway! Back to the subject at hand… Here are some pictures from Lilly’s “Lilly Pulitzer themed birthday party” day!

I made the wreath on the right and I love the way it came out!

The tissue pom poms were made by my friend Linda for my friend Dani’s daughter’s first birthday party back in June. We recycled decorations! 

Lilly’s birthday girl chair…

I got Lilly Pulitzer napkins, a pitcher, serving tray, and coasters on eBay and Rue La La over the last few months! 

We had guests write their favorite bible verse or a wish for Lilly on this picture. The notes we got were beyond what I expected and it’s something so special we’ll have for years to come…

This “gifts” sign was used at our wedding. More recycled decor!

I did all of the paintings myself! I am NOT naturally artistic at all… I just followed a few tutorials to hand-paint Lilly Pulitzer patterns. The tutorial for the mirror picture holders is here…

On the menu was chips and my salsa recipe, green beans, pulled pork cooked in the crock pot, and mac and cheese in the crock pot. We had THREE crock pots going at one point…

My AMAZING sister did the cake (she does all our cakes). I gave her the Lulu Lilly Pulitzer pattern that was on the invitation and that was on the dress Lilly was going to be wearing, and she went to town. The cake was even more amazing than I imagined! She worked for over six hours on the detail alone. I was BLOWN away.

Lilly even got her own smash cake!

GAH! The detail is just perfect. I don’t know how she did it. She’s so talented. If you live in North Carolina, you need to order a cake from my sister. I’m just saying. 

The birthday girl!

Opening gifts…

The whole crew! So blessed by these friends and family…

The Stillmans!

Besties

Sweet friends…

Smash cake time…

Love these guys

Getting messy…

Icing. Was. Everywhere.

She loved it!!It was really such a great day and I’m kinda sad it’s over… but don’t worry… I’ll be sharing some recipes for the food that we made for the party on the blog soon! They’re too good to keep a secret. 🙂

What about you? Thrown any parties lately?