I first saw the Nerdy Thirty birthday theme over on Harper’s Happenings, and put it in my back pocket.  While Flirty Thirty and Dirty Thirty are fun, I wanted something more unique.

Marisa of Mad Design created my custom invitations.  I wanted more a hipster nerdy approach, and Marisa totally worked with me until we had the perfect invite, complete with hot pink envelopes. Love!

 As I mentioned before, we rented a private space, the upstairs loft of a favorite bar.  This allowed us our space meanwhile still being a part of the bar.

I decorated with custom birthday banner and cupcake toppers from 10 Candles Party Shoppee:

We can’t forget the dinosaurs, which were a HUGE hit. (oddly)

Add some special robot & birthday cake shaped confetti (from Creating Your Memories), “nerdy” glasses from Ebay, Pop Rocks, wind up robot toys, & rainbow unicorn napkins and voila:

This was more of a throwback to the 80′s and my childhood than it was a truly nerdy party.   But maybe my childhood was nerdy.  Or perhaps it’s nerdy to like these things. or hipster. which is quasi-nerdy.

At any rate, a good time was had by all: