A Revival: A Good Ol' Fashioned Engagement

{Location: My Humble Home in Chula Vista, CA}
In the spirit of the LOVE month (and yesterday being happy heart day), I wanted to post some pictures from Charlene & Enrique's engagement party from September of last year. Enjoy!

The lovebirds' dessert of choice? Doughnuts! So I set up a dessert table filled with glazed doughnuts, chocolate drizzled doughnuts and powdered doughnut holes.

[Party favors] I bought palmiers from Trader Joe's (heart shaped flaky pastries) and placed two pieces inside a baker's parchment bag, wrapped it with yarn and secured it with a bow.

[Thank You tags] With my sister's help, we also made little tags and wedged them in between the yarn. We tore pieces from butcher paper (the more raw edges the better), and stamped it with a picture of a little birdie and the phrase, "You're too sweet!"

{Side Note}
The record player pictured above is Enrique's own. This is his other love...second to Charlene ;)

In our backyard, we set up the floral arrangements, tables and other knick knack decor. All of the decor you see here belong to the crazy yet blissful couple.

[Table Arrangement] Charlene bought various greenery/shrubs from a farmer's market the day before and arranged them in quaint little vases.

[Beverage Station] We filled this table with bottled cokes (Charlene's favorite) and a water dispenser with pineapple slices in it.

We wanted to set up a picture area (I guess we can call it a "photobooth") with hanging decor. We decided to use paper ball lanterns. The paper lanterns themselves were a bit plain, so we gave it a chic and romantic twist.

[Paper Lanterns] We bought white, pink and coffee colored tissue paper (the color palette). To create the layered effect, we cut out large circles from the tissue paper and glued them all around the paper ball lantern from the bottom up.

VOILA! Our picture area!

Bride-to-be with the Maid of Honor :)

Bride-to-be with her maid of honor & 4/7 of her bridesmaids (yes, it is a big bridal party)!

{Love}
Awww...she's the first of us friends to go ;)

       {Love}                                                                          {Love}
       Already telling me what to do for MOH duties!               Too funny! Enrique totally walked in on our
       Oh dear gosh what have I gotten myself into?                  picture, asking us if we wanted ice cream! :)
        ...just kidding :) She's SO not like that!

Groom-to-be with his best man, (his brother Esteban) & 4/7 of the groomsmen

...They're SO made for each other, don't ya think? :)