Dad’s Retirement Party in Pictures

Happy Monday! I hope your week is going well. My dad’s retirement party was a huge success and he was so surprised. The days leading up to the party he thought that we were just going to take him out to dinner. He had no idea that we were going to throw him something a little bit on the bigger side. 

We called The Eagle House in Williamsville to make reservations and they told us since we were going to be X amount of people, we could have our own party room. So that is when the planning commenced. Pinterest and Amazon were quite the help when it came to finding cute retirement puns and getting creative. The sucker tree was definitely a guest favorite. I’m still finding suckers and wrappers throughout my house because the girls secretly hoarded a bunch of them out of the restaurant.  

I ordered the personalized  “Happy Trails” trail mix bags from Etsy, along with all of the stickers. The chalkboard signs I found for $3 in the Target dollar spot. Win win win win win!

The personalized “Retire-Mint” stickers that stuck over the Tic Tacs were personalized from Amazon too. When my Dad walked up to the dessert table and saw the whole set up you could just see it in his face how touched he was that we did all of this for him. 

Cutest pun ever. 

I spent the night before stenciling the chalkboards with a chalk pen and had my Dad take everything home to keep as a keepsake. The advice cards were my favorite. On the back of each card it said, “Don’t forget to.....” and you had to fill in the rest. Every guest had to fill in the card and drop it in the jar. People have both funny and touching advice. 

I googled retirement cakes and quickly fell in love with the personalized clock. The bakery put different hobbies and activities my dad loved at each hour. It was not too over the top, and perfect for him. 

He had nothing but pure joy on his face the entire time....

And I would not have been able to put all of the details of this party together if it wasn’t for the love and support of these guys above....I am one lucky mama!