Elian's Baptism

We celebrated Elian's Baptism this past October and although we thought we'd have a rainy day, it was actually a beautiful day, so we went right ahead with Plan A. It was a very special and blessed day in our family.

This was the sign at the entrance of the yard. Now the frame hangs in our bedroom with a picture of the kids, Mr. R and I from this day.

I went to Ikea and got a candle then I came home and made the wrapper in photoshop. To think that I almost ordered one online, mine came out pretty nice. I had this little white picture frame already so all I did was add a picture of my baby boy the day he was born and voila! Cute, cute.

The favors in the basket were cross curio boxes that I ordered online and got an amazing price for them. The ones in the organza bags were decade rosaries that I purchased at a local store. I got the letter E at Michael's, the baskets and small candle at the Dollar Tree. Love how my shoes made it on the picture. I was wearing flats during the party. Hey! It's hard to wear high heels on grass, lol.

The curio boxes came wrapped like this so I had to do nothing but put them in the basket.

A closeup of the decade rosaries.

The Menu.
We hired a taco guy and the tacos were pretty darn delicious and huge.

The night before, my sister and I stayed up very late making these cookies. We made our own icing and they turned out to be delicious. We received many great compliments on them.

The drinks table.
I made the sangria a day before in a hurry, I had so much to do. Anyways, It turned out pretty yummy. It was a popular drink and it's almost gone in this picture.

We used paper lanterns to decorate the inside of the tent. I got the yellow ones on Ebay and the white ones at Goodwill, 2 for a buck, it was a great find so I got a few bags.

On a future post I'm going to upload some of the ceremony pictures. All these photos were taken by jessiesphotos.com and she did great, specially with the family portraits.