Party Spotlight: He’s Wheely Four!🛞

Sometimes when you’re planning birthday ✨ideas✨, the stars align and you achieve the perfect combo of an individual’s favorite things, pun perfection, and the year of a ‘big’ gift that corresponds perfectly. That happened as the birthday boy turned four, loved all things with wheels, and was gifted a real ‘big boy’ 4-wheeler.

Once the theme was selected, the party colors were next - and with a theme involving primarily black tires the colors were entirely up to the birthday boy himself. If you have met a child ever, you know that ‘favorites’ can change by the hour. So incorporating more than one ‘favorite’ color is always a safe bet with these sweet fickle opinions. Finding textures to coordinate with this theme was a challenge because rough and tough 4-wheelin’ brown mud can read very differently in design (💩🫣🤪), so we opted for extending these colors to the tire tread texture found in the invitations, signs, and envelopes*. (Check out that *DIY here!) These details are ones that are oftentimes overlooked until it’s too late. If you’re in doubt - run a design by a male in your life and standby for giggles or observations. 🙄🤪

The party favors were fun for all ages! Each guest went home with lots of color-coordinated candies and no motor-sports party is complete without trucker caps. 😎 Using RSVP’s (standby for RSVP soap box, ha ha) we were able to customize each hat for each party guest. Donned in their cool new custom hat, they also got to pick their own 4-wheeler to take home from a tiny ‘show room floor.’

* * * Soap Box Break: Y’ALL, there are SO many reasons to RSVP (💡FUN FACT: RSVP means “répondez s'il vous plaît” - French for "please respond".) Outside of the obvious reasons like needing headcounts for food or pre-paying admission, there may be surprises or special touches happening behind the scenes! Another unfortunate reality behind the RSVP is also the very real possibility that if NO ONE RSVP’s, a party may need to be reconfigured and hyped less to little ears. Most venues rely on a promised amount or minimum attendance, and when that is not met the host is still responsible for the estimated cost. Social media is heartbreakingly full of stories and tales of exciting parties being planned for weeks only for the parties to be unattended and sweet hearts to be hurt by empty rooms to celebrate them. SO, say it with me friends: “I will RSVP to parties and attend if I say I will.”

We love incorporating all of the birthday boy’s favorites (well, favorites for some days at least😉). One of the favorite treats was delicious sherbet and here’s a party hack for you: 💡we transported the individual sherbet cups in 40 oz Stanley cups to avoid lugging a big bulky cooler! (Each cup held 4 stacked servings.) The cake was a simple design from a local grocery store, and the addition of checkered candles, a 4-wheeler toy from home, and custom name topper made it look like a high-dollar custom cake! (Sweet deet, if you look at the party spotlight from Rookie of the Year - you’ll see that this cake topper was a tiny replica of the Sandlot-inspired name displayed on the backdrop 🥹.)

This was a fun one with lots of creative freedom. One-of-a-kind parties are secretly our favorites, so keep us in mind if you have a party that’s got you stumped.