Monday 7 February 2011

Dad's 60th

On Saturday night my Dad celebrated his 60th birthday with a massive party for all his friends and family. I had to give a little speech which was pretty nerve racking and apparently it bought a tear to his eye even though I don't believe it! This special occasion meant I FINALLY got to wear my Lanvin x H&M 50s style dress and boy did I get a ton of compliments about it!!

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Dress from Lanvin x H&M
Shoes from Topshop
Tights from Beberoque
Belt from Accessorize

This dress is enormous, it needs its own seat and causes a bit of mayhem on the dance floor but I adore it! Without a belt the dress is a law unto itself and I was able to find this perfect accessory on Friday, phew. I bought these platforms in the sale for £13.50 (reduced from £70) but had to take them off after half an hour because they are so high and pain inducing! It was really nice getting so many compliments for once but when a dress stands out as much as this one it's no surprise. At one stage my little sister H spilt coke over me (by mistake) but fortunately it didn't stain. Not sure when I'll get the chance to wear it again but soon I hope.

Dad is a massive Doctor Who fan (as am I) so as a present a family friend made him this incredible birthday cake.

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My sisters and I gave Dad a whole clatter of gifts wrapped in this wonderful Penguin classics paper from John Lewis. His gifts included a new wallet, black and white Links of London shirt studs and some colourful socks.

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Everyone was looking gorgeous and glam at the party but my table, know as the Young Ones definitely won the most stylish prize.

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We all had such a fantastic evening with amazing food and drink. I love black tie events because it's really nice to dress up super smart and see all the good looking men in tuxedos. We danced until 1am and had a merry celebration.

Happy Birthday Dad x

32 comments:

  1. You look absolutely gorgeous! And the cake is really wonderful :) Happy Birthday to your day! x

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  2. *Opps I obvsiously meant Dad! x

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  3. THAT CAKE OMG <3 and you look gorgeous in that dress too c: x

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  4. Your dress is amazing :) Looks like you had loads of fun :)

    Love, Vanilla

    http://vanillaheartsstyle.blogspot.com/

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  5. That dress is gorgeous! Id be tempted to wear it everyday just because its so pretty!
    Happy Birthday to your dad!
    Sophie
    x

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  6. Wow, that dress is stunning. You look great! Happy Birthday to your Dad! x

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  7. So many things I love here.

    1. The dress is beautiful and so are you.
    2. So jealous, I want a Dr Who cake for my birthday... possibly one with Matt Smith on saying 'bow ties are cool'
    3. That wrapping paper is great, I'm a library assistant so I need to get some and wrap any present I give in it.
    xx

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  8. The dress looks absolutely gorgeous! I missed out on the Lanvin for H&M because the H&M website was playing up - I had the t shirt I wanted in my basket :(
    The cake looks immense too :)
    x

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  9. You look beautiful in your dress! :)
    x

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  10. so many things right about this post.
    1. You Lanvin pour H&M dress.dont even need to say why (...so jealous btw!! haha!)
    2. Your platforms. LOVE them, AND ON SALE!! like wow.
    3. You're a doctor who fan!
    and triple awesomeness for the fact thats it's handmade, amazing! love the dalek haha! happy birthday to your dad!
    x
    OH and the wrapping paper is pretty awesome too. all in all AWESOME POST GIRL!! x

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  11. you look bloomin lovely! i adore your dress and heels!

    happy birthday to hannahs dad! save a slice of that AMAZING cake for me, yum! that wrapping paper is immense, so special to be ripped! xxxxx

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  12. ooh you have the Lanvin for H&M dress. AND it looks fabulous on you. Oh my goodness and that cake. I am now officially craving cake. ;-) xx veronika

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  13. i'm jealous, looks like so much fun, and what a dress!

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  14. Happy birthday to your papa! That wrapping paper is awesome :) I work in John Lewis - we cleaaarly provide the best wrapping paper ;) haha!

    I'm now following your blog and have given you an award on mine :) thank you for your lovely comments!

    www.veritalane.blogspot.com

    x

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  15. wowee that dress is awesome! xx

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  16. love your dress its gorgeous..every girl needs a dress like that in her wardrobe!!

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  17. Soooo cute, that dress is adorbs!

    Your blogs looking fabby atm too.

    xx

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  18. that dress is so pretty Hannah and love the shoes too. The Doctor Who cake is amaaaaazing! Love a bit of Doctor Who :)
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  19. your dress looks gorge - happy 60th to your daddy xxxx

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  20. HOW COOL IS THIS POST.
    i laaav your dress so much <3333
    plusss the cake is amazing!
    -Rosie xo.

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  21. This is so lovely, majorly jealous of your dress! I bet your dad had a fab time x

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  22. what a fun dress!!! looks like u stole the show... but yeah, happy b'day to the dad. ps: love love the penguin gift wrap! great idea too.

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  23. I would wax lyrical about how gorgeous all the pics are, but OHMYGODTHATCAKEISAMAZING.

    I want it. I NEED it. I'm 21 in April; I think that merits a Tardis cake!

    Happy birthday to Daddy Bow Dream Nation, too :) xx

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  24. That cake is the BEST.
    I really adore the wrapping paper you picked too. I'm going to have to try and find some of that, because its something I think my dad would love too!

    You look beautiful :)
    xxx

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  25. OMFG! You have the dress! Such a perfect dress, awfully pretty! Can't stop raving and can't stop drooling. I've dreamt about having one but of course, no H&M in my country means that it's just pure daydreaming :)

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  26. Sounds like so much fun. Hope your dad had a great birthday. I am so jealous of his cake! I'm a huge Dr Who fan.

    You look so incredible. The dress is stunning and so glamorous.

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  27. That dress looks amazing on you! Hope your dad loved his presents and that cake!

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  28. that dress is fabulous, how neat that you got to wear it!!!

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  29. Aww,such a lovely post and boy is that dress a winner. You look absolutely gorgeous in it, so nice to have a special ocassion dress.

    Carol x
    www.mystylisms.blogspot.com

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  30. that dress is GORGEOUS!

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    x

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