Ella’s Floral First Birthday Party
Check out these cute floral first birthday ideas, including DIY decorations, cake, cupcakes, and cute finds from Etsy!
Our baby girl is one!
I knew from early on that I wanted to have a floral first birthday party theme for Ella’s party, and I’m so happy with how everything came together!
I can’t wait to share the details.
Party Decor
These floral party decorations were so cute and easy to put together.
I made a lot of the party decor myself, but purchased a few key items to make the celebration extra special.
Here are all the links and tutorials:
Tassel Garland | Similar Gold Picture Frame | DIY Floral Hoop Photo Gallery (See details below) | DIY Floral Wooden Hoop Wreaths (See details below) | DIY Floral Letter (See details below) | Tulle High Chair Garland
Floral Photo Hoop DIY
SO many of you have been asking how/where I made the gold hoop frame for Ella’s monthly pictures!
It was seriously the easiest DIY ever.
I bought a hula hoop from the dollar store and just spray painted it gold. I used this gold paint. I’ve used it on several other projects in my home and I’m obsessed with the color. It’s almost a rose gold and is so beautiful.
Then I just hot glued some flowers I took from a Michael’s faux floral bouquet and some gold ribbon that was also from Michael’s.
Floral Wooden Hoop Wreaths
This was another easy DIY! I just found several wooden embroidery hoops at Michael’s and some pretty white flowers and leaves I liked and hot glued them on! I used the 14″, 10″, and 7″ sizes here.
Floral “E”
Yet another easy DIY!
I traced the shape of an E on cardboard and then just hot glued flowers from the same bouquet I used for the photo collage.
I added some green leaves to give it a more natural look.
It hangs in her room and was one of my favorite DIY projects I did before she was born!
Ella’s Headband
How cute was this floral headband?
This was another Etsy shop purchase from HeartfeltBlooms.
It was the perfect finishing touch to Ella’s birthday outfit!
Party Food
We kept the party food simple with cupcakes, fruits, and finger foods.
The cute golden cake and cupcake toppers are from PeachyDetails and we got the cake and cupcakes from Smith’s bakery.
Party Favors
The perfect party favor for a floral first birthday is, of course, flowers!
You can pick up some inexpensive potted flowers from the lawn and garden section of most supermarkets or from home improvement stores.
Cake Smash
We loved including a cake smash in Ella’s party.
Cake smashes are always so cute and fun. But, also a little messy!
We made sure to remove Ella’s adorable white dress before letting her dig into her cake!
Some Favorite Moments
Here are some precious moments from the party captured by Morgan Love Photography.
It was so nice to have someone handling of all the picture-taking for us!
First Birthday Party Planning Tips
Ella’s beautiful party wouldn’t have been possible without all of my talented friends! My mom kept asking me if I made all of the floral first birthday decorations! Unfortunately I’m not that talented (nor do I have that much time)!
A few things I learned from throwing Hudson’s first birthday party helped me plan Ella’s:
- It’s OK if you’re not planning months in advance. With Hudson I handmade EVERYTHING and it literally took me months to get it all together. This time I just spent a few weeks before nailing down the details.
- So on that note, you have to figure how much your time is worth. What I mean is…is it worth it to make the cupcakes, and the banner, and the favors, and the invitations by yourself??? I did all of that for Hudson’s birthday and the day of his party was crazy! This time I decided to let my talented friends help with parts of the party so that I wasn’t running around the whole time!
- We did her party at 3:00 and it was PERFECT! I did a lunch for Hudson’s first birthday party and it was so much work. I hardly had any time to enjoy my guests. But with Ella’s we just had snacks so I saved SO MUCH MONEY on food!
- I also had my sister-in-law take pictures this time, which also allowed me to spend more time with my guests, and the pictures turned out so beautiful! Sometimes it’s just best not to do it all.
So all in all her party was a success: I wasn’t stressed out, and I think everyone had a good time!
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Your Turn
Do you have any first birthday party tips you’d like to share? Let me know in the comments!
Hello! Just wanted to say I loved your theme so much it was my inspiration for my own daughter’s first birthday last week 🙂 I duplicated most of your projects and loved how easy and fun they were!. I would attach pictures if I could but it turned out beautifully, thank you!
Oh my goodness! That is so fun!!! If you want you can send any photos to jessica@loveloveloveblog.com 🙂
Hi! Love Love all of this! I’m going to order the same high chair banner and floral crown and was wondering if the dress you got to match was white or off white? I can’t tell! Thank you!
Hi Taylor! That’s so exciting! It was more of a cream color with the tulle overlay. I got it at Baby Gap on clearance! Here is a REALLY similar one that’s on clearance too https://rstyle.me/+LG14bY93xjTelOmoVfvIoA
Hi, I love your theme and decorations! So beautiful. Would you mind sharing how you made the cupcake and cake toppers?
Thank you so much, Natalia! I actually ordered them from my friend’s Etsy shop! Here’s the link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PeachyDetails She can do custom orders too!
Hi, I’m planning to do a floral them for my daughters first birthday in December, did you make the highchair banner yourself? If not, where could I buy one? It is perfect!
Thanks Anna! I didn’t make it! I got it from Heartfelt Blooms on Etsy! I have it linked with all of the products under the last picture!
These photos and all your party details are ADORABLE! I love how everything goes so well together!!
Aw thank you so much Julie! It was SO fun to plan and put together!
Such a cute theme! What color are the cake and cupcake toppers?
Thank you Selina! The toppers were cut from a rose gold glitter paper!
can you tell me the size of the photos you used in your beautiful floral hoop photo project? i love it!
Hi Colleen! Thank you!
I always get 4×6 photos from the printer and then cut them down to a 4×4 square to fit nicely in the frame! I hope that helps!
Hi! Beautiful party! Your floral party is my inspiration! Wondering what size hoops you had for your floral arrangement? Making one for our party next week!
How fun!! Do you mean the hoop wreaths over the table? These are the ones I bought: https://www.michaels.com/loops-and-threads-wooden-embroidery-hoop/M10124152.html
I got 14″, 10″, and 7″. I hope that helps!
Of course! Thank you for reading!
Perfect! That’s what I was thinking I’d have to do! Thanks for much for getting back to me!
Hi Alli! That is so fun and love her name! How perfect! I got the hoops at Michael's! It was a pack of 3 I believe and I used both parts. They were cross stich hoops so I got 6 out of the pack. I just covered the metal part with the flowers!
So so beautiful! We are doing a floral theme for our daughter Magnolia’s first birthday and I had the same idea to do some floral hanging hoops! Yours are beautiful! Would you mind sharing where you found the wooden hoops?
I made it! I drew an E on cardboard and then glued flowers from Michael's to it. So easy!
Where did you buy the “E”?
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I love this one! https://www.etsy.com/listing/569069240/floral-birthday-invitation-girl
Have you seen a paper one you liked that went with this theme too?
Thank you so much Rachel!! I took the easy route and did online invites! I love this design https://www.evite.com/event/create?c=featured&ctrk=search&event_type=&template=smelltherosesvalentines
Love this birthday!! Do you have pictures of the invitations you used for her party?
Where are the beautiful flowers on her highchair from?
They are from https://www.etsy.com/shop/HeartfeltBlooms! She makes the most beautiful felt flower pieces!
Thank you so much Rachel! The flowers are from Michael's. I love their selection of faux flowers. And the hoop is just a hula hoop from the Dollar store I spray painted!
Love the floral birthday!! Where did you purchase all of the flowers and gold circle for the pictures?
Thank you so much Lunka!
Congratulations to Ella and her parents! She's adorable 🙂
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Thank you so much Angela! I had so much fun planning and putting together the decorations. They're all up in her room now! Thanks for reading ❤
I'm so glad Ella had a beautiful birthday. I love the theme. The decorations are so pretty. I love that they can be repurposed for her room as she gets older. I mean who doesn't need a gorgeous floral e. So beautiful!!!
Angela
Ha ha sure! Although I've never been great at adult parties…just kid's birthdays 😉
Can I hire you to do my birthday party!?!? This is so cute!!