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Home » Parties & Entertaining » General Parties

The Purple Party

Modified: Jun 12, 2025 · Published: Jul 21, 2010 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

A Purple Themed Party with a purple dessert table filled with purple food ideas, and purple party decor ideas.

Purple Party Food: lots of purple sweets for a purple themed party including a purple fruit tray, lots of purple candy, and blueberry trifle.

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  • Easy Purple Party Decorations
  • Purple Party Drinks
  • Purple Party Food
  • Purple Candy and Sweets
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • More Inspiration

This past weekend my Mom and I hosted a bridal shower for my cousin who is getting married in a few weeks.  The colour of her wedding is purple, so we made that the theme of the party. If you're a purple lover, you will love our purple dessert table and cute decor ideas. Purple lovers you might find more inspiration from our 30th Birthday dinner that also had a purple theme.

Easy Purple Party Decorations

My house is fairly neutral, so it was easy to add purple accents every where and create a real purple feel for the party.

  • Purple Candles
purple candles.
  • Purple Flowers: we used coneflowers.
purple coneflowers in milk glass vases.
  • Purple Balloons: We also picked up a BIG bouquet of purple balloons, which the kids loved after the party.
purple balloons.
purple decor.
  • Purple Accessories: We had some special purple accessories for the bride-to-be to wear, from the party store.
purple tiara.
  • Purple Flower Initial DIY Decoration: My cousin's name is Jessica, so I made a big "J" out of foam core and purple silk flowers.  I was really pleased with how it came out. 
  • Purple Ribbon Streamers: We also used different purple ribbons in lieu of streamers, so pretty!
purple banner.

Purple Party Drinks

We set up the drinks in the kitchen.  There was tea and purple punch, made of grape juice and ginger ale, served in beautiful purple wine glasses.

purple table setting.
purple table.
purple glasses.

Serving Pieces

The candy was served in my collection of milk glass candy dishes, and it really helped to tie the whole look together.  As well, the footed bowls were a great size for a small gathering. 

I also had some purple wine glasses that were perfect. If you didn't you could tie a small purple ribbon around each one for some color.

I used lots of neutral white and glass serving pieces, and white flowers too which worked really well for our purple theme.

Don'f feel like every single thing has to be purple for a purple party.

Purple Party Food

  • Cupcakes: I made vanilla cupcakes with purple frosting and added some cute flags to decorate them.  The cupcake flags from white toothpicks, assorted purple ribbons, and purple pearl beads.  I love how they turned out and the cupcakes were delicious!
Purple Party Food: lots of purple sweets for a purple themed party including a purple fruit tray, lots of purple candy, and blueberry trifle.
  • Purple Fruit Tray: In the background you can see the purple fruit tray my mom made with fresh grapes, blueberries, black cherries, and figs.  She also made a purple dip with black cherry yogurt, and cool whip.  Yum!
    • blueberries
    • black cherries
    • figs
    • dip
  • Purple Marshmallows: Also included were my homemade purple marshmallows -find the recipe here.
Purple Party Food: lots of purple sweets for a purple themed party including a purple fruit tray, lots of purple candy, and blueberry trifle.
  • Blueberry Trifles: I also made some individual blueberry trifles.  They were made in small glasses which made them really easy to serve. To make them I layered cubes of pound cake, custard, a blueberry layer made of blueberries cooked in a little sugar, water, and cornstarch, and a final layer of whipped cream, with a fresh blueberry for garnish.  They tasted as good as they looked! See our mini raspberry trifle recipe here.
Blueberry Trifles
  • Blackberry No-Bake Individual Cheesecakes: these would be a great addition to a purple themed dessert table.
Mini no bake cheesecake with blackberries.

Purple Candy and Sweets

  • Purple Cotton Candy: We served it in small shot glasses on a purple platter, so pretty and whimsical! 

Top Tip:  Don't put it out ahead of time, cotton candy looses it's fluff after being exposed to the air and humidity a little while -wait until the last min. 😉

purple cotton candy
  • Caramel Corn in Purple Paper Cones: I was lucky enough to find cone holders a few days before the party.  The individual paper cones are made out of two shades of purple card stock, and filled them up with caramel corn and vanilla clodhoppers. 
purple party food cones of caramel corn
  • Grape Liquorice
  • Purple Wrapped Chocolate Truffles
  • Hersey's Dark Chocolate Kisses  
Purple party food ideas candy
  • Chocolate Covered Blueberries
  • Candy Stick Lollipops in Purple
  • Chocolate Covered Pretzels: To make the chocolate covered pretzels fit our purple theme perfectly, I used some purple chocolate melts and drizzeled them over the pretzels.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where did you find all the purple candy?

I got it at the Bulk Barn, which is a bulk food store perfect for getting small quantities of lots of different items. You could also look at the dollar store.

How did you make the purple punch?

The punch was just grape juice and ginger ale for some fizz.

If you try any of the ideas from our Purple Party or any other ideas on my blog please let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!

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Comments

  1. Bird says

    August 09, 2010 at 6:55 am

    HI!!

    Just to let you know your party has been featured on Bird Crafts! 🙂

    Thanks again for linking up!!

    Love,
    Bird

  2. Susan @ Entertain Exchange says

    August 04, 2010 at 9:47 pm

    What a wonderful color to for a dessert table - it's lovely!

    Susan,
    http://entertainexchange.blogspot.com/
    Party and Entertaining Inspiration

  3. dnr says

    August 03, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    I always like food favors. I have done homemade candy in little bags or boxes with ribbon. I also like to make a sugar cookie in a shape that goes with the theme and put it in a clear plastic bag with ribbon. I have also done home-made caramel apples. The homemade marshmallows would be great too, maybe dipped in chocolate. Hope this helps,
    Dannyelle.

  4. Monserrate Cocuzza says

    August 03, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    At the present scenario, baby shower party is very popular in mostly every European country and also in US and UK. Baby shower favors are some kind of presents that reflects the cheerfulness that new parents feel. What kind of baby shower favors to make do you like?

  5. dnr says

    July 31, 2010 at 8:28 am

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