Fyre Festival Themed Birthday Party During Quarantine

Fyre Festival Themed Birthday Party During Quarantine

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

#Fyrefestival was the most talked about festival of 2017. For those of you who don’t follow.. check out Fyre: the greatest party that never happened on Netflix. It’s a documentary that focuses on the disastrous build up to the Fyre festival which was hosted by Billy McFarland. Cringe-worthy but hilarious. My sister and I couldn’t stop talking about it and laughing for months.

For her 26th birthday, I decided to recreate Fyre festival with the help of my bestie. We’re all still in quarantine but we wanted to try to make the celebration special.

I made all the decor to reference a bunch of funny parts we loved from the documentary.

Decorated straws with Billy, Ja Rule and of course Andy. 

I printed these on card stock paper and used my silhouette cameo to cut these but printing & scissors work just fine. I also made some extras to super glue to toothpicks to decorate the appetizers.

FYRE festival lanyards (festival passes)

Ordered lanyards from amazon and used the background from the FYRE promo to print off these tags.

Exauma Point Beach Bar & Grill Sign (restaurant from the documentary)

We ordered take out from one of her favorite restaurants, so I decided to turn the kitchen table area into the popular restaurant from the documentary. 

I used a regular white poster board and letters from the Dollar Tree. I added clip art drinks and palm trees last minute to make it more festive.

FYRE: Birthday Banner

I used the silhouette cameo to print off the letters but the letters from the poster can definitely be used here to easily create a banner. You'll just need to punch holes in the corners to put the string through. 

Ice Cream Cake with a photo of Ja Rule and Billy from Baskin Robins 

Evian Water - Because I love Andy!!

& of course the best Sangria from Trader Joes. 

Here's how it all came together 

(Before the food arrived) 

So much fun and SO funny. Wishing we could’ve shared the fun with more of our friends and family but it was an eventful day nonetheless. Quarantine birthdays are not so bad after all.

Xx miyonne

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A Wedding Series - Postponed Wedding

A Wedding Series - Postponed Wedding

Friday, May 15, 2020

May 2, 2020 was the day Mark & I we’re suppose to tie the knot. As much as we wanted to celebrate our love with our closest friends and family, in light of the current situation with COVID-19 we decided to postpone our wedding. We didn’t have much of a choice with all of the bans on large gatherings. All the chaos of contacting vendors is behind us. We are so thankful for how flexible and understanding our vendors and guests have been. We have a new date in mind but feel that it's too soon to share since so much is changing daily.

It took me sometime to accept that there wasn't going to be a wedding and this was out of my control. In reality, a postponed wedding is not the direst thing happening right now. I completely understand that. I felt fine during the days leading up until the wedding. May 2nd finally came around and my gosh I was so emotional! Mark had promised that we'd still do what we could to make the day special and my goodness it was. May 2nd, 2020 was such a memorable day.

Here's a peek at our day through photos.

We got dressed (meaning no sweats) and had cake!! My little sister picked up my favorite cupcakes for us. My best friends surprised us with a zoom call and they gifted us the most generous gift off of our registry. We have a Dyson air purifier and it is AMAZING. Mark and I had the most fancy dinner. We decided to go with Shake Shack. I mean.. how many people get to have burgers and fries at their wedding? We are so thankful for our beautiful friends that showered us with so much love. How did we get so lucky?

To all those that are experiencing a similar situation during this time of uncertainty, I wanted to let you know that this too shall pass. Things will get better.

We are really grateful to be standing where we are and not in someone else's shoes. We are healthy. We have food to eat. We have family and friends that care about us. We are working from home. We are happy.

Thinking of all of you that had to cancel graduations, birthdays, bridal showers, baby showers and all the other big events you were looking forward to. I hope you choose to celebrate in your own special way because you deserve to.

This post is the start of a wedding series. I spent weeks rushing to get everything ready for the wedding but now I have way more time than I ever needed. I mean it. WAY more time. I'd like to use this time to share all my DIY projects and a little on the planning process. #weddingwednesday coming soon!

xx - Miyonne

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