Modern Homemakers

Life is a Party: All the Party Suppliers You Need!

by Gretchen Gatan Fragada
May 24, 2023

Planning a party can be just as fun as the celebration itself with Modern Parenting’s highly-recommended list of kiddie party suppliers.

This story about kiddie party suppliers first came out in Modern Parenting’s special Mother’s Day-Father’s Day 2023 Print Edition available on sarisari.shopping.

Your child’s birthdays are very important milestones, but putting together a children’s party is a whole other story. Of course, the goal is to organize a fun, safe, and memorable experience for everyone. And so from catering and styling to photographers and entertainment, we’ve curated a list of party suppliers who can help you make any family celebration a success.

Party Suppliers to Book:

CATERERS

Passion Cooks

Led by a mother-daughter duo, Chef Laura Martinez and Maja Martinez Laforteza, Passion Cooks makes sure that every food served is carefully prepared with love. From a humble village cafe in the south of Metro Manila, they’ve grown into an established catering and event styling company that provides premium service to their clients.

Verleo Catering

Verleo Catering is a full-service catering company that specializes in providing delicious and beautifully presented food for all kinds of events. Their experienced team of chefs, event planners, and serving staff work together to create a seamless and memorable experience for clients and their guests. They offer a wide range of menu options that can be customized to suit any taste, budget, or dietary requirement! With their commitment to excellence and their passion for creating exceptional events, Verleo Catering is the perfect choice for any occasion.

Creamery Catering

The Creamery Catering is driven by the passion for offering delectable gourmet food paired with an innovative and chic setup. They work together with their clients to blend exquisite food and beautiful presentations. Grounded on quality, creativity, value, and exceptional service, each event is a labor of love to give their clients the satisfaction that they crave.

FOOD CARTS

Puffles

Puffles is on a mission to bring sprinkles of surprises to every celebration. Established in 2016, they are the first and original Egg Waffles party cart in the Philippines. Since then, it has expanded its products to include: Soft Serve Ice Cream, Milk Tea and Cotton Candy. Because of these kid favorites, Puffles is the perfect party cart for children’s parties!

Candid Coffee

Candid Coffee began as a small cart selling hand-roasted coffee beans at a Sunday Farmer’s Market. Due to their lack of a physical store, clients would book their cart! They’d cater to weddings, corporate events, and functions! A year later, the company set up a shop to establish its micro-roastery and focus on wholesale supply. Today, they focus their resources on expanding brick-and-mortar locations as well as investing more in their e-commerce and event services.

Sorbelato and Soyblessed

What started as a taho factory in Mandaluyong with a purpose to create jobs for anyone willing and able to sell taho in the streets of Metro Manila, is now what’s known to many as Sorbelato Ice Cream and Soyblessed Taho. In 2017, a group of friends came together as a response to the needs of their vendors’ children. These are mostly students who needed the extra job on weekends. To continue creating opportunities, they pivoted their business and also became a delivery service apart from providing food carts for events and celebrations.

STYLISTS

Island Creatives

Island Creatives was founded by Joyce Gabilo. She’s a mom of two, equipped with an eye and passion for styling intimate events. Known for her classy and minimalist aesthetic, she works together with her clients to bring their event styling pegs and Pinterest boards to life.

Style It Dainty

Style It Dainty is owned and managed by a husband-and-wife team, Mario and Mary Clutario. As event stylists who focus on kiddie parties, baby showers, and intimate weddings, they cater to clients within Metro Manila as well as nearby provinces. They love to execute clean and timeless designs while still focusing on their client’s needs. All to make a fun and memorable experience!

Sugar and Sunbeams

Jem Perez-Chua is a mother of three who started Sugar and Sunbeams back in 2013. This was after she immensely enjoyed styling her own son’s baptism. After getting inquiries during the event, she decided to make it a sideline during weekends while working a corporate job on weekdays. She eventually left her full-time job to focus solely on event styling. Because of her experience in corporate, Jem is organized and efficient in making her clients’ visions come to life.

PHOTOGRAPHERS AND VIDEOGRAPHERS

Hello Little Owls

As someone who has always had a soft spot for kids and photography, Trish Mae De Castro is one-half of the real-life partners behind Little Owls. Nothing gets her more excited than being around little ones and capturing their playful, carefree spirits through her lens. Meanwhile, her partner Matthew Abad is passionate about creating videos that tell a story. They merged their passion and talents together to create Little Owls. Both believe that life is too short not to have fun. And they aim to make every photo and video session a fun experience for the whole family.

Oh Hello Studios

Oh Hello Studios is a lifestyle photography team led by husband-and-wife tandem, Toto Villaruel and Nicolai Melicor. They also happen to be parents to two adorable kids, Isla and Ocean. Toto and Nicolai take pride in growing together with families—by being their go-to photographers. In fact, majority of their clients are from the weddings they’ve shot! And as these couples eventually have their own children, they call on Oh Hello Studios to document their portraits and celebrations.

Sunny Days Studio

Sunny Days Studio is a lifestyle photography studio meant to capture sunshine in human form. The team takes pride in capturing the most genuine smiles, laughter, hugs, and kisses in every event they become a part of. Established in 2018 by wedding photographer Regina Roque, she found it natural to nurture relationships further with the couples she has shot by growing with them as they grow their families!

EVENT PLANNERS

Pabys Events

Pabys Creative Events is an event consultation, planning and production company established in 2017 by Event Mastermind, Janna ‘Pabys’ Pablo. Stemming from her passion to create memorable experiences, parties, and events for kids, she has been the go-to event planner of first-time celebrity mothers. And this is all because of her ethos in planning things that are outside the box, and executing events creatively.

Events by Ina

Katrina Ochangco-Simbulan, or Ina for short, is a wife and first-time mom to a two-year-old boy. She started event planning after working in corporate for five years. This is because of her interest in putting together special occasions for her son. She offers On-the-Day and Full Coordination Services to clients who need help in budgeting, planning, and turning their ideas into reality. As a mom, she understands the stress that comes with DIY parties, but at the same time having a strict budget. So she makes sure to provide flexible, affordable options to her clients, and work with party suppliers that fit their needs.

Sunny Events by Pam

Event planning has always been one of the things Pam Tanael has been passionate about. It all started when she worked in the human resources industry for six years. Since becoming a mother in 2019 and deciding to give up her career to be a stay-at-home mom, she has been planning her own son’s birthday parties. Eventually, she started her own company where she currently offers On-the-Day Coordination Services and Partial Planning for children’s parties and other intimate family events.

CAKE SUPPLIERS

Wadough’s

Wadough’s is a product of love and passion by Chef Wado Siman. All his desserts are baked using recipes he has developed. He applied baking techniques that he learned over the years, combining flavors and textures with premium quality ingredients. He started baking cupcakes and selling them online in 2012 before winning competitions and being featured in several publications. Today, he even has a cafe along Maginhawa Street and has grown his once-team of four to fifteen!

Mau’s Cupcake

Mau’s Cupcake is the transformation of a hobby into a business. As a husband-and-wife tandem, Bjorn and Mau Carreon have been headlining events and celebrations with their delicious cake and cupcake creations. Now on their 10th year, they’ve been consistently fulfilling cravings and customer expectations. And with the fast-paced lifestyle of parents and cake trends, they commit to an easy and worry-free engagement!

Elle’s Kitchen

Cake designer Elise Lim studied in Enderun under the Alain Ducasse Formation (ADF) program and trained in Paris under Chefs Franck Geuffroy, Johanna Le Pape, and Sebastian Gamot. Her experience here and abroad allowed her to start Elle’s Kitchen. It’s a bespoke pastry business where she customizes desserts based on her client’s requested theme or motif. She even provides tasting sessions for custom flavors!

SOFT INDOOR PLAYGROUNDS

Inflatables PH

Inflatables PH offers an incredibly wide selection of inflatable playgrounds and pools fit for any theme and can be rented for up to 12 hours! Aside from parties and celebrations, parents love to rent their products on weekends so that their kids can have fun at home. They offer different sizes that can fit the smallest of garages to a lush, spacious garden, so that children can enjoy swimming and sliding down all afternoon!

City Jump N’ Slide PH

City Jump N' Slide SOFT INDOOR PLAYGROUNDS

City Jump N’ Slide is a favorite among many celebrity parents. Though they are on the pricier side, the premium quality of their products—including contemporary playgrounds, chic kiddie chairs and tables, and a wide variety of food stations—make them incredibly worth it.

Ada’s Wonderland

Rose Anne De Guzman started Ada’s Wonderland in 2016 because of a desire to give her daughter and their toddler guests a play area for the intimate birthday parties she throws. From one small set, she eventually added more heavy-duty-type inflatables, wooden sets, soft play areas, and a mobile play gym. Seven years later, they are now the only provider of Mobile Play Gyms in the country. And they are excited to build and create more Mobile Play Gyms for kids to enjoy.

ENTERTAINMENT

Clowning Around Manila

For three decades, Clowning Around Manila has been delightfully creating memories with families. They offer only the best entertainment during their little one’s special day. Their parties and mini-musicals are guaranteed to be fun, quirky and highly enjoyable that they themselves can’t seem to get enough of. They are a band of fun-loving characters from various fields, all brought together by the desire to entertain, inspire, and honor important milestones.

Make Believe Productions

Make Believe Productions is a creative arts company dedicated to creating and enriching magical experiences for children, families, communities, and organizations. They offer hosting, interactive storytelling, musical shows, character appearances, and workshops in theater, movement, art, and yoga for both parties and events. Their bestselling service is interactive storytelling, which brings the magic of stories to kids and kids at heart through an energetic performance with exciting narration, vivid characterization, and the involvement of the audience all throughout. The Make Believe storytellers pour all their love and magic into creating an unforgettable experience. With zany, laugh-out-loud moments and beautiful, heartfelt lessons families and guests will never forget.

Team Gen

Team Gen is a group of hosts and performers who do lively and interactive sing and dance shows at birthday parties. They are also known for their show-stopping flash mob where all the guests—young and old—can dance together! Moms highly recommend them because of how much their little ones enjoy watching their performances.