{"id":263789,"date":"2018-12-18T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/inside-vanessa-hudgens-lord-of-the-rings-themed-birthday-party\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:57:20","slug":"inside-vanessa-hudgens-lord-of-the-rings-themed-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/inside-vanessa-hudgens-lord-of-the-rings-themed-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Vanessa Hudgens&#8217; Lord of the Rings-Themed Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.640939597315\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181118\/rs_634x1024-181218134356-634-vanessa-emd-121118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Vanessa Hudgens\" alt=\"Vanessa Hudgens\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29.086294416244\">\n<p>Happy birthday, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/vanessa_hudgens\">Vanessa Hudgens<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>The actress turned 30 years old on Friday and celebrated her big day with a\u00a0<em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>-themed\u00a0party at her home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Had the most magical birthday party,&#8221; the <em>High School Musical<\/em> star wrote on Instagram. &#8220;Very thankful for everyone who made it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hudgens held the event at her home and didn&#8217;t spare a single magical detail. To plan the perfect party,\u00a0she worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/powwowdesignstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pow Wow Design Studio<\/a>. In fact, <strong>Melissa Strukel<\/strong>, owner and designer of the company, said Hudgens actually reached out to her about the party three months in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The enchanted atmosphere was carried out from the d\u00e9cor to the attire. To set the scene, Hudgens hosted the soir\u00e9e in her yard and lit up the night with market lights and vintage lanterns. Strukel and her team then decorated the venue with banners, antique and vintage rugs and tons of faux fur and velvet pillows for guests to sit on. There was even a tent for lounging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[We used] a lot of brass and a lot of vintage silk, and we have a vintage <em>Lawrence of Arabia<\/em> tent that was used in the original film that I scored at the Rose Bowl Flea Market a couple years ago and I knew I wanted to use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>When it came time to eat, guests gathered around four long tables, which were decorated with candlesticks, greenery and brass plates and goblets from Hostess Haven. Again, there were tons of comfy pillows for diners to sit on. Guests passed around charcuterie, drank wine and enjoyed pieces of birthday cake. The decadent dessert was decorated with flowers and candles and featured a &#8220;30&#8221; on the front. Guests also enjoyed listening to a harpist play while they wined and dined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um, happy birthday to me!&#8221; Hudgens said during the meal. &#8220;Iconic. I&#8217;m dying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.059322033898\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181118\/rs_634x1118-181218134356-634-vanessa-emd2-121118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Vanessa Hudgens\" alt=\"Vanessa Hudgens\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.636363636364\">\n<p>To really get into the theme, the <em>Rent<\/em> star and her attendees dressed up in costumes. Hudgens wore a beautiful red dress similar to the one Arwen wears and topped off her look with a crown. Several of her pals attended the bash, including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sarah_hyland\">Sarah Hyland<\/a><\/strong> and dancer <strong>Allison Holker<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it seemed like a great party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was really happy, which made me really happy about it,&#8221; Strukel said. &#8220;She loved it. She said it was magical and that everyone loved it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"51.714\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.188\">\n<p>It looks like Hudgens is looking forward to this new decade, too. During her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/videos\/281807\/vanessa-hudgens-talks-turning-30-holiday-plans\" target=\"_blank\">recent interview with E! News<\/a>, <em>The Second Act<\/em> star said she there\u00a0were still a lot of roles she&#8217;d like to tackle, as well as some humanitarian projects she&#8217;d like to do.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p><strong>&#8211; Reporting by Beth Sobol<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/997765\/inside-vanessa-hudgens-lord-of-the-rings-themed-birthday-party?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram Happy birthday, Vanessa Hudgens! The actress turned 30 years old on Friday and celebrated her big day with a\u00a0Lord of the Rings-themed\u00a0party at her home. &#8220;Had the most magical birthday party,&#8221; the High School Musical star wrote on Instagram. &#8220;Very thankful for everyone who made it happen.&#8221; Hudgens held the event at her home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:29:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}