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POTIONS DISPLAY<\/h3>\n
The party included a few different displays\/food tables to correlate with some of our favorite parts of the Harry Potter world. My favorite display to create was the potions display complete with a bubbling cauldron, potions, spell book, slimy creatures, spiders, and a skull. I purchased a bunch of small, different shaped bottles and filled each with different colored liquids or items that matched the descriptions in the book. Maureen made small tags that I cut and displayed on each bottle. Guests had a great time finding their favorite potions from the books. I found a vinyl wall piece on\u00a0Etsy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and bought an inexpensive pack of spiders at Party City to use as the backdrop.<\/p>\n
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DESSERT TABLE<\/h3>\n
The dessert and candy table was modeled to be reminiscent of a display in \u201cHoneydukes,\u201d a candy shop that the Hogwarts students love to visit. The backdrop was made with plain pink fabric embellished with ribbon, and the centerpiece was a \u201cCandy Shop\u201d sign designed by Maureen. I made some of the most popular treats from the books, including \u201cCauldron\u201d Cakes, Pumpkin Pasties, \u201cRock\u201d Cakes (chocolate chip cookies), \u201cAcid\u201d Pops, \u201cExploding\u201d Bon Bons, \u201cGolden Snitch\u201d cake pops, Chocolate Frogs, a Chocolate cake from Hagrid, and also drink-inspired Butterbeer Cupcakes. I found licensed \u201cBertie Botts Every Flavor Beans\u201d and placed them in movie-inspired boxes from\u00a0Etsy<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and then purchased easily found candies that I labeled with Wizard-like names from the series, along with Crystal Ball lollipops from\u00a0Vintage Confections<\/a><\/strong>. Each guest was given a chocolate frog as a party favor in a replica box, complete with wizard cards that I also found on\u00a0Etsy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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DECORATIONS<\/h3>\n
My husband (and kids) adore the owls from the series, so I found stuffed owls on Amazon, moved some lanterns inside, and wrapped boxes in kraft paper and twine to simulate an \u201cOwl Post\u201d for an easy and inexpensive fireplace display. It unfortunately was raining the weekend of the party, so we also added the \u201cWelcome Muggles\u201d banner and party Welcome sign designed by Maureen to the display as well.<\/p>\n
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CENTERPIECE<\/h3>\n
We had a long table set for seating, so I decided to set up a long centerpiece display with lots of candles (that were all lit after dark), vintage silver trays and movie props including Hogwarts Books, Harry Potter glasses, wands, and a replica Hogwarts Acceptance Letter and Class Supply List. I also found a plain white trophy that I painted gold and put in blue cellophane and a light to represent the \u201cGoblet of Fire.\u201d\u00a0I embellished the decor with party tags from the printable collection and used maroon and gold wrapping paper as a table runner.<\/p>\n
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FOOD & DRINKS<\/h3>\n
For food and drinks, I tried to find as many Harry Potter themed recipes as possible to recreate. There\u2019s a cookbook on\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that I used as a reference to make Guinness Stew, British Hand Pies, and other book and movie inspired foods. I ordered licensed Pumpkin Juice from Universal Studios and then supplemented it with a punch bowl filled with homemade pumpkin juice, and then at the end of the party we made a fresh batch of \u201cButterbeer\u201d for dessert. Tons of recipes for both can be found on Google and Pinterest.<\/p>\n
Other party favorites were the \u201cHave You Seen This Wizard?\u201d photo booth prop from Anders Ruff and \u201cDark Mark tattoos\u201d using a hand carved stamp from Etsy.<\/p>\n
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VENDOR CREDITS & RESOURCES:<\/h3>\n
\u2013 Styling and Concept: Charynn of Two Sugar Babies<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u2013 Party Invites and Printables: Anders Ruff<\/strong>
\n<\/a>\u2013 Potion Bottles: Michaels
\n\u2013\u00a0Harry Potter-themed Items, Drinks, and Candy: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Party City, and Amazon.com
\n\u2013 Owls: Amazon.com
\n\u2013 Vinyl Wall Art:\u00a0Evolution Vinyls<\/strong>
\n<\/a>\u2013 Dark Mark Stamp:\u00a0Doodle Bug Design<\/strong>
\n<\/a>\u2013 Crystal Ball Lollipops:\u00a0Vintage Confections<\/strong>
\n<\/a>\u2013 Bertie Botts and Chocolate Frog Boxes:\u00a0PropPrintables<\/strong>
\n<\/a>\u2013 Chocolate Frog Mold: Amazon.com
\n\u2013 Hogwarts Acceptance Letter:\u00a0WizardingWorld<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are thrilled to welcome Charynn of Two Sugar Babies to post her husband’s amazing Harry Potter inspired party! Here are the details from Charynn: “This Wizard (\u201cHarry Potter\u201d) Party was a surprise 31st Birthday Party for my husband (we were moving over his 30th). He loves the books and movies, and is known to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1481,196,58,25,73,209,1480],"tags":[1870,678,681,3018,1868,1869,714,238,1867],"class_list":["post-20293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthday-parties","category-birthday-partyfolio","category-boy-parties","category-decorations","category-dessert-tables","category-halloween","category-parties","category-partyfolio","tag-adult-party","tag-boy-party","tag-dessert-table","tag-halloween","tag-harry-potter","tag-magic","tag-parties-2","tag-two-sugar-babies","tag-wizard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20293"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22499,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20293\/revisions\/22499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}