21 and FAB!!!

My 21st birthday was on Wednesday the 3rd of June. I was pretty excited about turning 21 just because of the fuss everybody makes about the big 2 1. Nothing happened on that day though because as always medical school has got to cramp my style but on Saturday the 6th of June I had a dinner party at Jazz by chrysalis.

Now I'm thinking; should I tell you guys how I almost didn't celebrate my birthday or nah?  

Heh! What the heck. Lool! I had been planning my birthday since January tbh. People thought I was crazy. Lool! I had different ideas for the birthday celebration; pool party, karaoke party, club party, the list is endless. After everything, I decided to settle for a dinner party. I wrote down my guest list and sent a bill to my parents and they were like "don't worry sweetheart, it's still far". The months started turning into weeks and the weeks into days and before I knew it, May was upon us. I was starting to develop cold feet and I was just like "abeg I am not celebrating this birthday again joor" and after a while it was "ok I'll have a small room party" and that was what it was supposed to be until one day I finally decided to stick with my dinner party. 

 After I had established the fact that I wanted a dinner party, it was time to go venue hunting. I wanted a place that wasnt too expensive at the same time classy and cosy. You guys already know me, when I say classy and cosy its cafe chrysalis that readily comes to my mind. I called them at cafe chrysalis to book the venue for the said date and find out the logistics and then they said to me " we are sorry ma but we don't allow guests bring in their birthday cakes because we have bakery services so we'd rather have you use ours" 

Wow! That was a bubble buster. I definitely did not see that coming. I was just there thinking "where will I now use". I told my friends about it and they gave me various suggestions but none of them quite fitted into my idea of cosy and classy. 

Fast forward to about a week to my birthday, the boo and I were driving one day and he suggested I check out the ring road branch of cafe chrysalis. This one is called Jazz by chrysalis. So we went there and I told them about my intention to use that venue for my party and asked them what could be done for me. They also told me of their no cake allowed policy but then they said that they'd allow me bring in the cake just for pictures. I was ecstatic. I called them almost everyday to remind them and be sure they hadn't changed their mind.

 my beautiful cake.

It was a relatively small dinner party, I invited my close friends and we had so much fun. Inioluwa was the anchor for the party. She and I already put our heads together the night before to think of activities to do at the party to keep every one involved and to make the dinner lively because we definitely didn't want people on their phones and being all uptight. 

We had various games. One of them was that I'd ask you a question about me and if you get it wrong you earn yourself a shot. Lool! Everybody ended up with a shot or two. 

Justice being served.

Lool.

Sammie 

food!!!!!

We also played a game of "who am I". Here, a sticky note bearing a celebritys name is placed in your forehead and you are supposed to ask your friends yes or no questions so that you are able to guess who the celebrity is.

Obinna  

Inioluwa anchoring the game.
 

We were divided into two groups by the anchor and a word was said. We were then supposed to write down as many songs as we knew that had that word in them. The team with the most songs wins.

The dinner was so much fun it was all laughs and no dull moment.

After we had all eaten, it was time to take pictures with the cake.

Anjola started to feel ill towards the end of the party so she wasn't in the group picture.

Selfie with my beautiful cake

So this pretty much sums up my birthday dinner. I had so much fun and I am grateful to God for life. I also wanna say thank you to my parents, my uncle and Aunty Moyo Aina, my grandma, the boo and my cousin Emmanuel for making this possible. 

But before we leave, what is a party without an "usie"

Details of my outfit; 

Dress custom made for me by Ronke @roniki on Instagram 

Hair; mama Ope (agbowo Ibadan)

Hair band; dupsquard (preboye's world Ibadan) 

Earrings; accessories to die for (the palms mall, Ibadan)

Cuff bracelet; Mr price ( Heritage mall, Ibadan)

Makeup: yours truly @drhunnay on Instagram 

Photo credit; Mr Kevin of @kevinawesomephotos on Instagram

Venue; Jazz by Chrysalis, ring road Ibadan. 

Phone number; 08077107799

Cake by Esesua of @indulgecakes_ibadan and @esesua_p

That's it for the post guys. Until next time. Ciao!