butterfly baptism

We recently celebrated G's baptism and had a get together for family and friends after the mass.  Party planning is one of my guilty pleasures and Pinterest has only added to that.  I am aware that I am one of those mothers who is made fun of in e-cards.  I love a party theme.

G's baptism party had a butterfly theme.  When M was baptized the favor was a footprint ornament that everyone loved.  I was tempted to recreate it but wanted to do something different.  G's favor was a bookmark that featured a butterfly made of her thumbprints and an Irish blessing.  Like most 5 month olds, G is not a fan of recreating prints x30 so we made one good butterfly, scanned it, and printed out the bookmarks.  Much easier on everyone...

I had an idea of getting a little tree and hanging the bookmarks on it for people to take.  The tree we ended up with was adorable but was too small to fit them all so we hung some and the rest were in a basket next to it along with this thumbprint poem in a frame.

The boxes on the left were our favors for the under 5 crowd.  Clearance boxes from Target decorated by M with butterfly stickers.  We also added some butterflies to the tree.  

We used G's tutu photo for table numbers and found the perfect little tree card holders at Michael's to hold them.