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The other week, Toni contacted us asking to feature our Star Wars "Empire Strikes Back" birthday party we put together almost a year ago! She had seen it featured over on Spaceships and Laser Beams. We have been big fans of Design Dazzle since we had one of our first parties featured on their blog almost five years ago! You can read Toni's review of our party right here.

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We have arrived in Hong Kong safely! We are settled into our hotel and have ventured out to explore the city. While we were flying over the International Date Line, our Star Wars party was featured over at the all boy party blog, Spaceships And Laser Beams. Thank you to Stephanie for her nice write up on the details of our Empire Strikes Back bowling party. You can read her post by clicking right here.

The Empire Strikes Back - Thank You Favors.

Since the kids that attended the party were going bowling, we gave each of them a package of glow in the dark candy light sabers that we purchased from Target's dollar section. We also wrapped up a one hundred piece puzzle that had a Star Wars theme on it. As a general rule of thumb, I tend to not invest too much into party favors. As a mom myself, I find that party favors tend to break easily and usually end up in the rubbish bin the same day of the party! 

The Empire Strikes Back - Party Food.

Since our party color scheme was primarily black, grey, and white, we tried to coordinate accordingly with the food. We purchased iconic NYC Black & White cookies from the Fresh Market here in Myrtle Beach. The cookies come to the grocery store frozen, so we were given a package of frozen cookies to keep in our freezer until the date of our party.

Williams Sonoma had their Heroes & Villains cookie cutter on sale, which was perfect for us! We used a cookie recipe which comes from Bake at 350 to get the dark color for our Darth Vader cookies. For the other shapes, we used our favorite sugar cookie recipe. To get the green color for Yoda, we used green food coloring.

We also made Oreo Truffles and used black and white paper straws as sticks to make them easier for guests to grab and eat. Small white sprinkles finished off the look.We printed off the little "May The Force Be With You" tags that we glued to the end of each paper straws.

We like purchasing a couple food items to cut down on some of the work we have to do to put the whole table together. As an homage to Princess Leia's famous hairstyle, we served Little Debbie Swiss Rolls.

Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla butter cream icing were the perfect finish to the dessert table. The birthday boy had his own small chocolate cake to eat. To create our cupcake tower, we wrapped boxes with paper we purchased from Home Goods {we had the added bonus of it being on sale for just a dollar!}. We instantly fell in love with the geometric pattern of the design on the paper and the colors worked perfectly with our theme.

The Empire Strikes Back.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, we designed a Star Wars themed bowling party for a boy turning seven. We stuck with the colors black, grey, and white as our primary color scheme.

The focal point of our dessert table was the Star Wars themed Imperial bowling set we purchased off of Amazon. I love that the bowling balls were the Death Star and the Thermal Detonator. We chose to create our own bowling lane using wrapping paper we picked up from Target.

I love using sheets as tablecloths and in this particular dessert table we also used a sheet as our backdrop. We drew out the sign onto white poster board that we used as part of the backdrop. Over the past couple of months we've picked up some great Star Wars props. Williams Sonoma provided the adorable cupcake toppers. We even picked them up on sale for just a couple dollars!

One of my favorite things about designing any event is the hunt. Picking items up at random places. Seeing something and knowing right away you're going to use it. That's how I felt when I came across the baking cups we used to hold chocolate whoppers. I immediately knew the design on the cups would be perfect for this galactic party.

When we saw the Darth Vader candle holder on Amazon, we knew it would be the perfect cake topper for the birthday boy. We loved the light saber birthday candle. The large Darth Vader was purchased from Target for what we thought was too good a price to pass up.

May The Fourth Be With You.