Valentine’s Flower Party
Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to get your girlfriends together and throw a party! Plus it’s 100 % acceptable to make the party as girly as you want! I decided to have a flower theme because I love a party that involves an activity where the guests can make something and take it home! And who doesn’t love flowers!?
I had my guest make flower arrangements and personalize them with fun ribbons. Flower arrangements are easy to make and you don’t need many supplies!
Supplies:
Packaging paper (aka brown wrapping paper) or any wrapping paper of your choice
Ribbon (I bought mine at Michaels Craft Store because they have so many cute, shabby-chic ribbons)
Flowers (Trader Joe’s has amazing flower options this time of year)
Rubber bands
Scotch Tape
Ruler
Step 1: Lay out the packaging paper and cutout a 15x15 square. You can make this bigger or smaller depending how long the flower stems are.
Step 2: Pick out the flowers you want to use in your bouquet and cut the stems down so they are not super long! This will make it easier when you are wrapping them in the paper. Then wrap a rubber band around them to hold them together
Step 3: Lay your cut flowers on a corner of the square. Have the stems about 4 in from the diagonal corner. You want the top of the flowers to be off of the paper like the image above!
Step 4: Fold the diagonal corner up until it touches the stems and crease it flat. Then fold the left side over as tight as you can.
Step 5: Now wrap the paper on the other side and tape it down. Your bouquet should look similar to the photo below at this point!
Step 6: Get creative and wrap ribbons around your flower bouquet!
Your friends and family will love this activity! Your guests can take these home and put them in a vase or they can hang the entire arrangement upside down so the flowers dry and they can keep the bouquet forever!
Every Valentine’s Day party needs a fun drink! My friend, Analisa, made on-theme pink Palomas. The key is to add fun fruit and herbs in your drinks to make them look picturesque. We added heart shaped ice, rosemary, and grapefruit slices to ours.
If you live with two roommates in a small New York apartment then chances are that you don’t have any room in your fridge for drinks and you probably don’t have much room in your apartment to store an ice bucket. But don’t worry! There is an easy solution to this! Clean out your kitchen sink and line the bottom with foil so that even the drain is covered. Next, fill your sink with ice and add your drinks! I bought a heart shaped ice tray and made all the ice match the theme!
Have savory and sweet grazing boards for your guests! It’s always good to have little snacks! Use cookie cutters to cut the cheese and strawberries into hearts.
Before the party you can hang paper tassels around your apartment to make an on-theme setting in the apartment. I used a step stool to hang them from the ceiling to really make a statement!
