My husband turned the big 3-0 last weekend and for years I have been yearning at my chance of getting him with a SURPRISE PARTY! I have never surprised anyone before and let me tell you: the anxiety was at an all-time high. Here are some of the “day-of” projects I contributed to the event. The lighting in the venue was terrible so I turned all of the photos to black and white for your viewing pleasure.

Shout out to my sister for snapping these for me!

SURPRISE! I will never forget his face.

Brent: the last 30 years.

Custom "Dirty Thirty" Banner

The insane chocolate peanut butter cake by The Confectionist.

The photo frame prop I made for snapping photos of guests at the party.

Custom Koozies

I learned a new trick in photoshop: How to turn a raster image of someone’s face into a vector image. I used this photo of Brent on the invitations, the banner, and the koozies.

Photo Display

I scoured pinterest for days of photo display ideas, but couldn’t find anything that acted as an age progression display of Brent’s face. So I came up with this board idea.