Our dear friends, Bailee and Andy, are getting married this summer. Two of Bailee’s bridesmaids, Erin and Rachel, planned a coed cocktail shower for the wedding party and families of the couple. Erin asked me to plan the decorations and I could not have been more thrilled.

After seeing the beautiful Kate Spade Paperless Post invitation the girls sent out, I was inspired by black and white stripes with gold accents. I bought this striped fabric from IKEA and hemmed it with iron-on binding to make a super easy table cloth. We placed it on the food table with gold and black serving pieces for guests to put their food they brought.

Ross helped to organize the drink menu: Champagne with St. Germain (recipe to come!), Manhattans, and Ginger Daiquiris. We set the drink station with gold tinsel swizzle sticks and black and white striped paper straws. Mandy and I made the tinsel sticks ahead of time. To make your own, follow the instructions here. The table was topped with black and white polka dot wrapping paper cut to size.

I wanted to keep the rest of the decorations simple. So, I focused on carrying out the color scheme in a classy way. With a few helping hands, we made a hanging decor piece for the drinks table by tying together a bunch of tissue poms, paper lanterns and honeycomb balls with fishing line. I wove gold tinsel through the whole thing and hung it with a command hook so that it would be easy to remove. We used a few balloons to string in the archway of the dining room and to put by the gifts table. I was pleasantly surprised to find almost all the supplies I needed at Party City. The trick was finding the basics they had in stock and staying away from anything over the top or cheesy. It was all finished off with a few light pink ranunculus flowers and garden roses from Trader Joe’s. Thanks to our friends Andy and Andrew for hosting and three cheers for the bride and groom to be!