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Mitzvah Inspire: Bar Mitzvah Based On Initials

Jamie K Photography services New York, New Jersey and the tri-state area.

Her Mitzvah blog is filled with terrific Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations. Matthew’s Bar Mitzvah party pictures caught our eye and we wanted to share all their great ideas with our readers!

This Bar Mitzvah boy from New Jersey used his initials as his theme. Afterall, his initials MSA are almost the same as the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden (MSG).

Check out Jamie K’s beautiful photos below:

We always focus on what the girls are wearing. We love how Matthew’s shirt incorporated his initials  

The custom bar had the Knicks’ and Rangers’ logos, along with the date of the party. Check out the score!

This great sign-in was a glass shadowbox featuring momentos from all the events the Bar Mitzvah boy attended at The Garden

Custom basketball cocktail tables

The custom logo on the dance floor

What’s better than a Dunkin Donuts munchkin cake?

Dancers shirts read, Section 4, Row 28, Seat 12 for the date of 4-28-12

How about a Pop Tart bar for guests on their way out?

Of course milk was offered to go along with the Pop Tarts!

We thank Jamie K Photography for sharing this celebration with our readers.

Bar-Candy: The First Edible Cocktail!

Many Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations include a signature drink (non alcoholic for the kids of course).

Bar-Candy, a New York based catering company has developed an exclusive patented edible glass that will wow your guests!

Imagine offering a bubble gum-tini, a refreshing coconut mango-tini, cinnamon bun-tini, bananas foster-tini, rocky road-tini or strawberry cheesecake-tini just to name a few.

They offer mocktinis for young adults guests and you can rim the glasses with crushed cookie bits, bright fruity colors, or gold leaf. All these “drinks” are served in edible chocolate swirl cups that fit inside specially-fitted champagne and martini glasses.

The cone-shaped vessels come in melt-free milk, dark, and white chocolate and can be dyed to match decor. Bar Candy was  featured in “Whose Wedding is it Anyway,” on the Style network and voted best new product on Biz Bash. 

Though Bar Candy only caters parties in the NYC area, they can ship the chocolate cones and glasses nationwide, and they’ll send you the recipe for any of their custom candy/cake/cookie-tinis…for your bartender to follow…how cool is that?

Tastes yummy

For more information, visit their Website.

American Cancer Society (Northern NJ)

CCCC (Coordinating Council for Children in Crisis)

Tennis Racquets for Kids

DIY Botanical Earth Day Theme

We found this great Earth Day themed Bar Mitzvah breakfast on The Jewish Hostess and knew we had to share the inspiring DIY ideas with our readers.

With her son’s Bar Mitzvah party falling on Earth Day, Claudia Bildiricci embraced the botanical spirit and grew some elegant decor for the occasion. All the decor was created with DIY projects that Claudia created on her own (with some help from her friends and family), but The Jewish Hostess, a guest at the simcha, insisted that Claudia looked cool as a cucumber at the party. How did she do it?

Read on to find out:

Claudia obtained herbs for the tables from The Growers Exchange, who shipped her samples. She found white pots at Ikea and potted the herbs, topping the dirt with rocks also found at Ikea. She asked her tablecloth company for burlap so she could achieve a natural look, but he was only able to give her squares of sashes of fake burlap. Not one to give up, Claudia looked at the bright side, noting that real burlap is a huge mess, and her equally optimistic friend suggested she use the swatches of fabric strategically and weave them on top of a plain white tablecloth. The final product looks deliberate and elegant.

Claudia asked Adelaide Khezerie, who arranged the floral centerpieces for her older son’s Bar Mitzvah, for help with the flowers on the other tables. Claudia, with great attention to detail, was looking to add height in the room. She and Adelaide went to the flower market the Wednesday before the party and decided on lilacs to arrange in the vases. Claudia had also picked up 24 white frames at Ikea that she found for under a dollar. She printed photos of the Bar Mitzvah boy off Snapfish and placed a framed photo on every table.

Claudia found wood letters online and ordered 180 H’s. Her son spray painted each one silver, and then glued each to a strip of leather (bought at M&J Trimming) that would form a napkin ring. The Thursday night before the party they put each napkin in the hand-crafted H napkin holder.

“After all the vases were done and the herbs were in the pots I just prayed that it would all last for Sunday,” Claudia said. “The temperature in the shul was kept nice and cold…all went well!”

Thank you to Claudia Bildiricci for sharing her inspired and inspiring DIY ideas, and thanks to The Jewish Hostess for posting about them!

If you have an idea to share with Mitzvah Market, please send it to info@MitzvahMarket.com.