We had a tea party theme for our daughter's baptism (it wasn't a birthday party, but many of the ideas can transform over!). For the invitations, I found a great drawing of little girls dressed up and having a tea party. I made the invitation announcement on one card (using this picture as the center), then I took the same picture and made a reception card announcing our tea party luncheon. We had the luncheon at a beautiful old hotel ballroom that recently remodeled their ballroom so I had wonderful warm neutral tones to work with!!  For centerpieces, I scoured local tag sales, clearance racks, and ebay.  I bought unique teapot and made sure nothing matched (I had one antique teapot from Portugal, one M&M Christmas teapot, a house teapot, a classic rose covered teapot, a rocking horse teapot, etc) -- I refused to spend more than $7 per teapot and succeeded! I bought "grape" garland (it was tiny colored styrofoam balls that looked like grapes or lilacs) from Walmart for $5 a strand and cut them to fit around the base of the teapot. I then used cake stands (the plastic tiers with collumns) at different heights to place the teapot and garland on top.  The head table sat four children (my 2 kids and the godparents have 2 toddlers as well) so I wanted to be fair and give each kid a centerpiece. So again, I scoured ebay and found a Cinderella & Prince Charming teapot, Beauty & the Beast teapot, Bugs Bunny teapot (my daughter's room in Bugs BUnny), and a Thomas the Tank carrying case (one boy -- couldn't find anything appropriate for a 3 year old boy that was teaparty related!!). The favors were tiny teapots that looked like limoge boxes and inside were jordan almonds wrapped in tulle with tiny flowers. I was stuck on what to do for the table cards and in the last hour I came up with this! I took my daughter for professional photos before the baptism and we ended up taking some silly pics of her and her sister in their diapers. Our photographer photoshopped one of the girls into a teapot and and the other into a teacup and told me I can use the photo for the party. I ended up making teabags with a pink ribbon and a tag (if you picture a teabag that you buy from the store and take it out of the package. The tag I'm referring to is that small square that you hold while steeping). The tag was the picture of the 2 girls in the teapot and teacup and the names of the guests were written under the picture.  The back of the tag was the table number.  I printed these out on my computer and used business cards as my template and folded it so it was a square and stapled the ribbon to the top of the fold so it resembled the tea bag tag. I asked the hotel to place the teabag in the teacups with the tag resting against the cup on the saucer. These were a huge hit because they were so unique! For decorations, I wanted to keep it simple because of the elegance of the room.  I put a small teddy bear and a small Madame Alexander doll (both from my daughter's collection) facing each other and a small teaset in front of them (from my eldest daughter's collection) -- this was on the placecard table.  I also did something similar for the gift table (teddy bear and doll having tea) but I placed them sitting in front of a glass triffle dish (for cards) and hung extra teacups off the triffle dish.  For the little girls, I made goodie bags of Barbie tea time coloring books, crayons, paper fans, pretend bracelets (all from Oriental Trading -- buy in bulk). For the little boys, it was a bit more challenging because it was difficult to find tea party ideas for the boys!  I put car coloring books, crayons, make your own bow tie, and yo-yos.  In both goodie bags, I put throw away cameras and a blank envelope that was addressed to my daugher. I asked everyone to send us the doubles so we can see the party from their eyes (and I'm not stuck paying for all of the developing!). We got some really funny pictures and some really cute ones of all the kids (from the older kids)! I made my daughter a bib that said "Name's tea party baptism" with the date and a small teacup in the middle. My eldest daughter (who was 2 at the time) wore a frilly dress, a big picture hat and white gloves -- she told everyone she was dressed for her teaparty!  We also had a charactiture artist keep the kids occupied and she tried to keep the teaparty theme through out her work! Our gift to  our daughter's godparents was matching bathrobes, personalized teacups that say godmother & godfather and their names, a few boxes of tea, and a framed picture of our daughter in the teacup. In lieu of a guest book, we provided small quilt squares with fabric pens (which were held in tiny teapots!) and we asked our guests to fill out a square and after we will make a blankie -- we ended up with some creative interpretations of teapot and teacups!! We also found small teapot frames from the Christmas Tree shop so I filled them with random pictures of my daugher throughout her life (the whole 7 months!) and placed them in random places throughout the hotel.  THe ladies room held a teapot filled with ladies' amenities, a basket filled with diapers (and such) that was adorned with tiny teapots.  Our big surprise from our daughter's godparents was a complete china teaset that was tiered (the teapot on the bottom, then the lid upside down, the sugar bowl ontop of the lid with its lid upside down, the creamer on top of that with a teacup inside) and wrapped in tulle.  It was such a creative gift that fit our theme perfectly! For music, we had a combination of kids music (of course "I'm a little teapot"!) and more modern music for the adults. We didn't serve a cake, we opted for apple strudel instead -- people appreciated it more because most are not "cake people".  I wanted to serve chocolate teacups filled with chocolate mousse, but I ran out of time and didn't make them (so feel free to steal the idea!!). I had so much planning this and we ended up getting thank you notes from our guests for such a good time!  We even received some really nice porceline teasets as gifts!