Inside Jennifer Garner's 44th Birthday Bash: Friends, Family, Balloons and a Marching Band?!

"It was a very inviting and relaxed atmosphere"

By Bruna Nessif Apr 19, 2016 12:10 AMTags
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Jennifer Garner sure knows how to throw a party!

The Hollywood A-lister turned 44 years old over the weekend and decided to throw a little soiree to celebrate the event, as one does. But it wasn't just your average birthday bash, because we're guessing not everybody has a marching band at their party.

Garner's festivities initially seemed simple enough, with the star inviting 30 of her closest friends and family members over to her Brentwood, Calif., home for some good times, a source tells E! News, adding that, "They set it up on the patio with a bar that was decorated with her initials as well as flower arrangements and tons and tons of balloons in all sorts of colors and shapes."

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The actress enlisted the help of Found rental company, "which is a vintage type rental service, very much in Jennifer's style. It was a very inviting and relaxed atmosphere."

And the live music was especially dear to Garner's heart. "The best by far was the marching band that was there," the insider tells us. "Jen use to play sax in school, so it was a great detail."

Well, there's a fun fact!

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Meanwhile, the general public can't seem to get over the fact that Garner seems to be aging in reverse, and although the mother of three continues to only look better with each passing day, she's also shared in the past that people shouldn't be afraid of aging.

When asked what advice she would give a younger woman about their physical appearance, the Dallas Buyers Club star replied, "I would tell her to be less obsessed with her looks, because she is going to age. If you're not aging, you are dead. You earn laugh lines. You earn smile lines. Sure, they can be corrected with little bit of help—not corrected, nudged. But you don't have to freak out. You want them. You don't want your face to look like a mask."

Speak on it, Jen.

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