Daddy's 50th Birthday

So this year was my dad's 50th birthday and he had decided he wanted a party. Between my mother and I, we decided that she would be in charge of food, while I'd be in charge of the theme / decorations. Since my dad's 2 favorite things are fishing and candy, I went with the fishing theme for the invitation and then decided to make the party an old school candy theme.

Here's the invitation:

I bought different shaped jars to fill with candy as the centerpieces and created my own can tops that i glued onto the lids:

Another idea I found while stumbling was the concept of making your own photo booth. I had to try it. We hung up a white sheet, I made a little banner for decoration, and then I made an assortment of lips and glasses as disguises. We also dug into the costume box for hats. It ended up being a huge success, because although not everyone is into taking pictures, everyone found this too fun to pass up. 

One last major decoration I made was inspired by Martha Stewart 

Martha's Version

As much as I loved the idea of the old pictures of my dad, I wanted it to be something that was usable after the party. Therefore, my version was a little different...

I scanned in old pictures and made a 50 in photoshop using all the pictures. I then had it printed at staples  on a board with a white border for everyone to sign.