Every mom has to do this at least once.. organise the kids' full month and birthday parties. I've always loved organising events (in a non stressful way of course).. and this time, we originally wanted to hold L-meimei's full month party which coincided with L-gorgor's 2nd birthday at the condo function room but it got snapped up even while we were still in the hospital 1 day after delivering L-meimei....
Had to think of other options of course.. our home was too small for big parties so we could only look outside..
- My parents' condo function room - Out. already had L-gorgor's full month party there, and in laws would not be very happy..
- In law's place - Out. already held L-gorgor's 1st year bday party there.. and parking is always a headache..
- Hotel ball rooms - Out. A little over don't you think?
- Country clubs - Out. No special significance.. plus its actually not cheap to book a function room in a country club... hmm..
- Sakura buffet - Out. recommended by my sis who held one of her kids' full month party there 8 years back. Today it costs about $10 more per head.. hmm... we didn't want our guests to only remember that "oh the buffet was pretty good" and not notice our kids..
- Restaurants or Cafes??? - Well, never booked one before, could just work!
A year ago we hopped to Brew Maison for a small family gathering to celebrate my sis's birthday and really loved the interior decor and the overall feel of the place - warm and cosy!
Decided to check out if they were available for event booking and it didn't take us very long to decide, YES! BREW MAISON it shall be!
BM caters to lunch and tea parties with a few different menu options to select from. They also offer decoration packages and the option to have a dessert table (which was definitely my favourite part of the whole thing!)
We didn't go with the decoration package and came with our own cos of budget constraints and we only needed something simple since the place is already so nicely done up without additional decorations.
Balloons and customized banner from KidsPartyStoreSG
The dessert table
the sumptuous spread!
One good thing was BM is quite flexible as we needed to bring in some basic full month foods like red eggs and ang ku kuehs for which we needed to sign an indemnity form.
Top and Bottom Left: Family pics during cake cutting
Top Right: Pic with the crew from BM
Bottom Right: L-gorgor having fun with his favourite balloons!~
Customised Wheel of Fortune cake from eCreative for L-gorgor cos he's a big fan of the show.. (strange??)
Random party supplies for the guests :)
All the above catered for about 55 guests for under $3k. Well, a little pricey from original plan but it was a great experience and the guests looked really comfortable at the cafe :)
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