Smoochie: The party

Well, Saturday came and it was a flurry of activity from wake up to bed time. Insanity would be a better word! Unfortunately our venue was only available from 12:30 and our party started at 3pm. Big mistake—huge! With only 2.5 hours to set up signs, flags, games, the dinner table, hanging candles, the Divination table, the Room of Requirement table, the Quidditch balloons, the egg hunt, the photo booth, the 93/4 wall and sign, food and drinks we ran our butts off for 2.5 hours!

I have never worked so hard and so fast in my life, and I was in advertising for 10 years! I couldn't have done it without my gorgeous party partner, Sandra, and our devoted men, Matt and Henri, not to mention Jade and Ben!

At 2:45 kids started arriving and Sandra and I hadn't even got into our Bellatrix and Trellawny outfits yet. My daughter and her boyfriend had to take the kids on an egg hunt so that we could very quickly go and get changed!

Another unfortunate thing is our photographer was held up, so we asked 'Dobby' and 'Snape' to take our pictures and they had other jobs to do on the day. We didn't get a picture of the venue in its entirety, and the action shots were taken on an auto setting!

In the end, it all worked out though. The kids and their parents were blown away, which is exactly what we wanted. We wanted them all to have a great time and go away saying that they want a Smoochie party too.

The pics we do have are below.

The emergency egg hunt, Sandra's little Luna Lovegood on the far left