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Hollywood Style "A Star is Born" Shower

You're eight months pregnant and ready for your star to be born. Are your friends and family treating you with all of the attention a famous actress would receive? Have you been scanning all of the Tinseltown magazines for ideas on baby names, pregnancy dressing style from Angie, Katie and Posh, and those fabulous features we all secretly love on celebrity bodies after baby? Have you lusted after and invested in the latest celebrity baby pram, mini mink rug and onesie - you know, the same one that Gwen and Nic have?

Does any of this sound like you? Then it sounds like you're the perfect Hollywood-style "A Star is Born" baby shower theme guest of honour.

Invitations

Send out a Showtime film ticket invitation to this fabulous soiree. Indicate that your guests must ‘glam up' for the event and be ready to have their 15 minutes of fame!

Red carpet arrival

Roll out the red carpet and film each of the guests as they arrive at your Hollywood Hills venue. It's a great idea to have an interviewer (E-style) and a camera operator to make it super-authentic. Catch each guest's arrivals on film and have your camera operator record a good luck message for the new family.

Catering

Celebs are used to being fawned over, especially when they go out to eat. Serve up some star treatment with fancy finger foods from a local caterer or buy prepared goodies that can be heated up or served cold. Boost the party food profile with a virgin signature drink named after the guest of honour. Mocktails are fun and serving them in fabulous crystal will mean you feel almost like you're able to have the real thing.

Decor and styling

Hire a spotlight, hang foil stars, and grab a director's chair for the mum to be. Pink Frosting has a great range of "Lights, Camera, Action" themed party decorations for creating this fun look. Lanterns are a wonderful way to create excitement in your decorations without it costing the earth. Black and white paper ball lanterns mixed with miniature mirror balls around your venue perimeter are a great way to create a full effect.

Don't forget the disposable cameras so your guests can be paparazzi and capture as much of the action as possible.

Activities

Why not have a mocktail bar where your guests can make their own virgin cocktail creations? For some cutesy fun, can your guests match the baby to the celebrity mum? Can they match the baby name to the celebrity couple? And, if your together with your best girlfriends and you feel exhausted, why not pop on some favourite Hollywood films such as Casablanca and enjoy a film fest with mocktails and popcorn in genuine popcorn containers!

Favours and guest gifts

Glamorous gals won't let their guests go home empty handed. They give favours that will remind their guests about the baby shower for many months to come! Try some personalised hand cream favours with your name printed on them, love compact mirrors for Hollywood fashionistas to check their makeup in or a fun monogrammed pedicure set to show how much you care about your guests tootsies!

Thank you in style

Burn a DVD of the film taken of your guests' arrival and send it to your friends with a thank you note. This fun thank you gift is a truly fabulous, glamorous and decadent way to say thank you in Hollywood style!

Image:  Hostess with the Mostess

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