Relief Society Birthday Celebration

Our Relief Society Birthday Celebration was a huge success.

I got so many compliments on the party and the decorations, which was wonderful because I had so much fun planning and decorating for such a wonderful celebration.

At the end of February I got called as the 2nd counselor in the Relief Society Presidency and at the end of March I had to throw the Relief Society birthday party.
Needless to say March was a very busy month for me.
We made goody boxes in color coded themes and filled them with Easter eggs and chocolate since it was just a few days before Easter.

I found the to go boxes here on Amazon and covered them in colored ribbon that I purchased at Hobby Lobby when they had ribbon on sale.

I got the Easter Candy in bulk at Winco and filled the eggs up.

We put the eggs on beds of the same colored Easter Grass (the paper kind) that I bought at the Dollar Store.

I had to make 9 different colored coded flower arrangements, one for each table.

There was a lot of work involved. Thankfully I had a little Les Miserables on Blue Ray to keep me company….. makes my heart soar.

Then it was time for the birthday….. I was at the church decorating for over 9 hours.

Plus there was a big confusion and the building was double booked so we got to share with a group of guys who were painting the same room we were in.

See the scaffolding in the back?

Yeah that was fun!

At least they were nice and we could work well together.

It cracked me up because they changed their country music to classical music. I would have much preferred the country music but I guess they thought that Relief Society meant classical music.

The middle table held our chocolate fountains and goodies.

I put fabric to cover the chalk board up and then tacked the frames up on the other side of the chalk boards.

We put 8 pieces of the 9 colors of paper in the bowl and had sisters draw color out so they would know which table they would be sitting at.

Each table was color coded and when the Sisters came in they had to draw a color and sit at that table.

Each chair had colored tulle tied around it, and each chair had the Relief Society Directory for our ward.

Each table had several different tongue depressors (color coded, of course) with fun questions to ask the sisters.

The idea behind the color coding was first that we wanted the sisters to sit with people they might not already know and because our Theme for the night was “Alone we are beautiful but together we can become better.”

We are all different and unique but together we all make up a beautiful rainbow of colors and talents.

Alone we can accomplish much, but together we can always accomplish so much more.