Party Inspiration | A Joyful Riot

Introducing: Party Starters! Videos to Help You Throw the Best Themed Nights Ever!

July 31, 2017 ·

We are so excited to introduce to you a series of videos we hosted in collaboration with Food.com! A few months ago, we had the opportunity to feature four amazing DIY parties and show how to create tons of party crafts, decorations, favors, and recipes!

Malissa and I spent a couple months putting together these parties and really poured our heart and soul into each! Along with our creative directors at Food.com, we came up with four fun themes and 12 DIY elements for you to follow along with! Each party has its own video, and each DIY element has been broken down into its own short segment for you to watch as well.

Floral Doughnuts, Maple Doughnut Milkshakes and Doughnut Gift Ideas!

May 30, 2017 ·

For National Doughnut Day Dawn of Revel and Glitter brought 10 of her favorite party and lifestyle bloggers together for a weeklong party blog hop! We will be sharing crafts, parties and recipes all week long and today we have quite the lineup!

First, make sure to check out each blogger participating – I promise you will not be disappointed!

We kicked the week off yesterday an awesome giveaway valued at $200. Go enter it now! Today we are sharing the first three projects of the week. They are all incredible and honestly they make my mouth water by just looking at them.

First we have ‘naked’ floral doughnuts from A Bubbly Life. These doughnuts are just so beautiful and I definitely want to make them for my next bridal or baby shower.

If you have not seen the insane creations that the Salty Canary whips up you are missing out! Each milkshake is a dream come true . Today she has concocted bacon maple doughnut milkshakes! Yes, everything amazing all in one drink!

And what better gift to bestow than something doughnut-themed? Modern Moments Designs has you covered with an adorable and simple doughnut gift idea.

I am not sure that we have ever shared three projects of that caliber in just one day! Be sure and join us tomorrow for 3 more amazing projects!

Lastly, we have an awesomely sweet pin board, Always Time For Doughnuts, full of our favorite doughnut inspired ideas! Eventually, all our projects will be there so be sure to follow it for lots of sweet inspiration.

Basic Invite + Outdoor Bridal Shower Inspiration

May 25, 2017 ·

Goil foil floral wreath invitation (Basic Invite + A Joyful Riot)

I’ve never done this before but I wanted to try something a little different and share some of my party inspiration before I throw the actual party (and share the final photos here). The main reason I wanted to do this is to show of the invitations and tell you a little about them!

I used Basic Invite to get them printed and I am SO happy with both the quality and the experience. The website was not only easy to use but has some exceptional features! You can easily upload your own design, or choose from one of theirs. The project can be saved for later (even without signing in) in case you need to come back to it which is great for people like me who get easily distracted (ahem, babies…). My favorite aspect of the design process, though, were the envelopes. Your order comes with free envelopes (!!) that can be printed with your addresses. There is also a ton of fonts to choose from, I went with their Happily Ever After font and I love how the names are bigger than the address, I think it makes them look so professional.

I have this problem where when I design something specific for an actual event I’m already planning, I usually start like five different designs. The problem is, I always have this vague feeling of what I want to accomplish with the design but not quite the visual of it, does that make sense? So it takes some work to realize my vague vision, starting what I think will be perfect but as I get a little into it, I realize it’s just…not.

Somehow, this invitation was not that way at all! As I’ve been planning this bridal shower (which I will throw next weekend), there were a few things I knew I wanted to incorporate. I know I want some lush greenery, pink flowers (unfortunately I think I’ll miss peony season by a hair), and some rich vintage details. Specifically these awesome chairs that were left in my house when I moved it. The chairs are a deep pink velvet and they really made the whole style of the party click for me.

Salty N’ Sweet Grammy Snack Mix with SkinnyPop + Grammy Party Inspiration (and Free Printables!)

February 3, 2017 ·

The Grammy Awards are coming up next weekend and, since we’ll take any excuse for a party, we decided to put together some inspiration for a Grammy watching fete!

My personal favorite part of watching the awards is the dresses. The pretty ones and the what were they thinking? ones are all so fun to see! But my favorite part about the watching party has got to be the snacks and treats, duh! You can’t gawk and poke fun at the stars without some yummy food. Well you can but I don’t think you should! Especially when we’ve got a delicious snack mix right here for you to whip up and go crazy over!

This mix is seriously so yummy. I’m a huge fan of sweet and salty treats and I thought it was the perfect metaphor for Grammy awards night, what with the aforementioned hit-or-miss fashion, the performances that are bound to range on the spectrum from great to shocking, and even the mix of sweet and not-so-sweet starlets who’ll be gracing the screen. Plus, don’t the bugles kind of look like a gramophone!? :D

The base of this mix is SkinnyPop so a whole lot of it doesn’t have to mean a whole lot of calories. With that, don’t you think this mix deserves its own award!? We do!

AND this post also contains an awesome printable ballot for guessing the winners and tons of easy party ideas! We’re loving the idea of a black and white party, accented with gold of course (and maybe a little purple!) and we can’t wait to host our own little Grammy get-together! If you’re feeling the awards vibe, or you just want a handful of this stellar sweet and salty chocolate caramel popcorn mix, then click the read more button below!

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3 Simple Citrus Centerpieces

April 4, 2016 ·

There is just something so fresh and inviting about all things citrus! Fruits are such a great party and dinner decoration alternative to florals and if you have a lot of space to decorate it is also much cheaper! At my wedding we had several large apothecary jars full of lemon and lines for extra decoration in our dining space. And it was so easy for us to do ourselves and much cheaper than paying the florist for 4 more large bouquets in the room. I actually started this project thinking of combining clementines with flowers but the stores I went to on Saturday did not have great floral options. So instead I decided to try a few options using just the fruit.