The AMAZING River Lee Mears turns 5!

Won't lie, ive been absolutely dreading writing this one out, i've excused all of it by saying, "We spend every weekend making other childrens day's special, so its only natural I can go all out for my own boys!"... 

Below is a rough financial breakdown of what this birthday cost us, please take note, that there are a number of things we did ourselves given the two businesses we own, I will seperate lists to what we did and didn't pay for.

Paid for.

• Fush Catering/The Waka - $1760 - 60 adult serves, 30 childrens serves.
• Kotiro & Co/Balloons - $680
• Backdrop/Vinyl - $1200 
• Pintech/Claw Machine Hire - $600
• 48 Claw Plushies - $315
• Crowntastic Events/Spiderman & Wonderwoman Entertainers - $365
• Partyware/Plates/Helium Balloons etc - $400
• Clever Cookie NZ/Marvel Cookies - $288
• Sama Palala/Activity Sheets - $30
• Black Ivy Events/5 Cake Plinths - $70
• Food/Snacks/Drinks $200
• Lily Charlottes Craft/Topper - $60

Total = $5968

Provided ourselves

The Play-Ari

• Soft Play - $670
• Ball Pit upgrade - $400
• Combo Castle - $500
• Tables - $60
• Chairs - $224
• 3 Tier Plinth - $150
• Candy Arch - $120

Total = $2124

The Bake-Ari

• 2 Tier Cake - $290
• 24 Cupcakes - $108
• 18 Cakesicles - $81
• Brownie - $108
• "5" Cake - $120

Total = $707

Break My Heart NZ

• 30 Circle Smash Cakes - $2100

Total = $2100

Overall this party cost us just shy of $6000, in saying that, we are very well aware and are grateful we are in a position to be able to outsource things we could otherwise do ourselves, i reckon it helps our relationship lmao, unnecessary stress we don't want or need LOL... if we were to tally everything up including the services we provided ourselves and were gifted the total would be $10,900... We were also very fortunate to receive our venue hire for free, which saved us forking out $2500 for a venue we didn't end up going with thank god! I would really like to emphasise the fact that we REALLY enjoy hosting, an as a fellow vendor mentioned, it's like i'm in a competition with myself, every party i do has to be better than the last lol... I think thats me until our near 3 year old turns 5... Or hopefully Joey proposes by then, so i can start planning our Wedding... HAHAHAHAHA... but serious though (insert side eye emojis lol)

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