LOL, bobby trendy? Oh, you mean ... the plates were trimmed with fur?
Seriously, I am wondering how you ladies here would have decorated for a first birthday party? Something more mature? :)
Well, with something more than the $1.7 million he thumbed his nose at from OK Mag, I would *assume* the sky was the limit on all the assorted party accoutrements they had!
Hot air balloons from overseas; a very large Cinderella carriage with life-sized prancing horses decked out in plumage; the “real” Barney from PBS who doesn’t make personal appearances, skipping around on a sound stage, plus party favors from his own merchandising; a fairy tale castle birthday cake too big to fit in the front door of a castle-like home entrance; enormous cupcakes, ice cream cones, lollipops and whatever else’s as yard decorations; a gigantic floating castle on the indoor pool; thousands of helium balloons; a huge glass slipper full of hundreds of wrapped gifts; a bubble machine; two larger-than-life-sized knights in shining armor to guard the cake; a vanishing ice sculpture of a crawling baby; buffet of pizza, chicken wings, chicken tenders and pink lemonade for 200+ guests; a pink chocolate fountain, a pink cotton candy machine, on and on - and I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting.
With all that, in a very fancy and grandiosely decorated home with ornate gewgaws in every nook and cranny, I would think that the hosts would spring for a little bit extra on the design of the plates and napkins, which are the only things that every single guest is going to have in their hot little hands.
This was billed on ET as “the world’s most elaborate child birthday party” for “the world’s most famous 1-year-old” at the home of the “world’s most famous twins” (and they didn’t mean Larry and Louie) - so I would expect something better than a stock off-the-shelf simplistic computer design.
Dannielynn doesn’t care, but the point of a party is to celebrate with the gathered guests and you’re supposed to do things that make them glad they came. Besides being the guest of honor, Dannielynn is also the hostess, theoretically. It would’ve been nice to furnish some plates personalized with the “world’s most famous baby’s” name and the date on them, as well as matching napkins, so the atttendees would have something besides a generic goody bag or Barney stuff to take home as a souvenir.
And with the money they spent on this thing (*whoever* spent it), they most certainly *could’ve* commissioned some little Limoges boxes or had some special non-breakable kind of plates, like melamine or something, made with a design matching the elaborate castle cake or the very intricate glass slipper or the coach and horses - anything besides what they did. The whole affair was *rich* with graphic ideas! Even *I* could’ve done better than that and I’m not an artist.
I guarantee you LB didn’t want the party stuff sold on eBay, so didn’t do that, if *he* couldn’t make the money off of it.
The guests appeared to just be an afterthought, just for show. “Props,” if you will. Can you imagine standing in line for that? Your own kid can’t even be in any pix at the party!
And they’re already planning to do it all over again for #2 next year! Egad!