We ended up booking our trip to Italy the very next day! Not planned at all, but flights happened to be a lot cheaper on the Monday rather than a few days later so I had to be super organised with everything before us getting up at 4am the next day for our first holiday with a new baby. For this reason, and the fact I just didn't have as much creative energy after a few weeks without much sleep/time, I wanted to keep the decorations pretty simple. I knew I wanted a loose bee theme - after we call her baby bee - and I knew that I wanted to have lots of flowers and foliage from the garden, but then my Mum brought me back that rifle paper co garland from a trip to America which brought it all together. 

I LOVE an excuse to decorate a cake and party table.

I ordered a plain vanilla naked cake from Bakehouse Apsley and we hired Peddling Pizzas for the catering, our favourite local pizzas which made for the easiest and most delicious food ever. {Adam is such a cool guy that we discovered on St Albans market on a Wednesday & his pizzas are better than some we've had in Italy!}.

I bought these gold hoops to hang from the ceiling and tied some olive greenery on them with fishing wire and then decorated the cake with autumn berries and a couple of little fondant bees that the baker made.

I ordered this little personalised cake topper.

And then my super talented friend Jemima, with a baby two weeks younger than Freya {how she got time I still don't know?!}, made these incredibly special bee cupcakes. 

Our friend Vicky had bought us this Bee's Knees alcohol free 'prosecco' which again was a really thoughtful little touch which we loved for the party.

It was such a special afternoon. Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate.

R <3 xx