Northern Shower Re-cap!

I already told you a little bit about my bridal shower up north in my previous post and how wonderful it was. Just a warning that this post is going to be a bit picture heavy, more of a PHLOG if you will..(photo blog).

Check out all these AMAZING details!!

A welcome sign at the top of the driveway

so guests knew which house it was. Swoon.

Me of course being a dork

T heart D..so sweet

The wheel of love

The lovely hostess-es with the mostess-es

BM Kiki and her mom

The To Die for yummy food!

I LOVE the chalkboard signs, such an adorable touch!

Anyone who knows me, knows I LOVE BLTs!!

The family tradition bridal rum punch

Auntie K has been know to make this a little TOO strong. But it sure is good!

Gorgeous centerpiece and table settings/runner

Some of the pretty gals

The Delicious dessert table

The scrapbook - see previous post

Recipe book - compiled of all those yummy

recipes from all those great cooks in my life

Lunch Tables - I love the napkins with the navy ribbon

The interview with the groom..

His celebrity crush is Bea Arthur?...ummm?

Enlarged canvas of one of our amazing engagement photos

I Loved this. I also have a very bad candy habit, I could eat it all day long.

I am still eating leftover candy from this day.

Tags for my own candy shop! Ahhh a dream of mine!

A tribute to my blog. Love this.

Will definitely make an appearance at the wedding.

Cute signs on the bar for fresh drink toppers

Many of the wonderful ladies watching me open my gifts

My beautiful bridal party

The Adorable favors. Go Mom!

Favor close up
My wonderful parents
The whole fam minus one

All of this was such a surprise to me, I did not know of one detail. I can't even believe how much love and hard work went into making this day so special. It was truly amazing and perfect to be with so many wonderful women. Thank you to all of those who made it more amazing than I ever could have imagined!

Can You Feel the LOVE..??

I sure know I felt the love when I flew to Connecticut this past weekend for my second bridal shower. The attendees at this shower were friends and family that I grew up with, people that have known me since birth. I immediately started crying when I walked in the door, and was greeted by all of these amazing women who I don't get to see as often and were all in the same place for me. The love I felt was overwhelming. The shower was beyond amazing, I will have to re-cap that later on this week as my amazing sister has all the photos of every single detail and event that went into making my day so special.

One of my most favorite gifts that I received was a scrapbook that all the wonderful women in my life, mom, sisters, aunts, cousins, and friends, got together and helped create an out of this world special keepsake for me to have. I had no idea and was so surprised when I opened this 60 (yes 60) plus page scrapbook filled with so many memories and achievements of my entire life. I will share just a few of the many fun pages below with you. I can't even imagine the hard work (and probably wine and fun) that went into making this scrapbook possible.

The Work of Art

The Dedication :)

Our Wedding Save the Dates and Invitations

Engagement photos and growing up

Special events and amazing family

To Mom: What was up with some of the clothes and haircuts you gave me?! :)

Lots of family!

Milestone events like junior and senior prom, high school graduation

Family Vacations

Sister trips to Italy to visit friends

College Graduation, good times with friends

Important life events, weddings, bridal showers, camping trips

The Florida girls were even in the loop and contributed numerous pages

The DC Bachy Weekend

More DC Weekend

And ended with pictures of the shower - thank God for Polaroid cameras!

The shower after-party and my can't wait to assemble NEW craft table!!

If I didn't already know it, and I did, but I will say it again, that I am so lucky to have so many amazing and wonderful women in my life who love me so much.

Were you ever overwhelmed by all the love that you felt at one time?

What an Amazing First Shower

I wanted to arrive to the shower a little early so that I could of course take pictures to share with all of you on the blog but on the other hand I didn't want to be the first one to arrive. I was nervous and excited on my way over to see everyone and I made it to the shower about 10 minutes late.

The shower was amazing, L and all the girls that helped put it together went above and beyond and I truly had a fantastic time with some very wonderful people in my life.

Some of the decorations
Its a little hard to see but there were quotes written on the mirrors in chalkboard pen



The food tables before they were soon filled with delicious munchies




I had to wear this Bride to Be sash, which worked out well as I was then wearing my wedding colors


We had LOTS of Champagne


L, the wonderful hostess with the mostess opening one of said bottles of champagne for her awesome bridal punch!


We played some fun little games


I geared up to open my gifts


Aww Matching Bride and Groom Hats


Joke-ster S passing on the hideous lingerie..now its up to me to find the next victim


And the adorable favors


The shower was an amazing day spent with amazing people. I am so lucky to have such wonderful women in my life!!! Thank you to all those and especially L who made such a special day possible.

And not to toot my own horn but thank you cards were written yesterday and went out with this mornings mail! :)

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It's Shower Time!

My first bridal shower is today! I am nervous, anxious but most of all excited!!! All the people in the same room in honor of little ole me. This is going to be strange for me as I am usually the girl who rarely ever likes to be the center of attention, I barely ever recognize my own birthday and I always feel guilty when people buy or do nice things for me. Perfect example, we received a check in the mail the other day as a wedding gift and I felt so guilty about it that I truly thought about not cashing it and writing this person a heartfelt thanks but no thanks we know times are tight, and appreciate your generosity but we can't accept your gift. Maybe that would have been totally rude?..like we were sending the wrong message of you need the money more than we do? Definitely not my intention at all, I just have a hard time of accepting gifts, I always have.

I guess I just feel like times are tight, weddings are expensive and I already know how much most people are spending on traveling, throwing parties, etc. and I hate to see them foot more to the bill on my behalf.

Am I the only person who feels guilty when receiving gifts? Should I just let it all go and relish in the moment?

Definitely a full recap to come with photos after the shower!!

Sisters for ever at sister Waggie's (center) Bridal shower in 2010

Me and BFF (and BM) Kiki at Waggies shower


I remember Waggie asking us to speed up the gift opening process so it wouldn't take hours, I was untying ribbons and slicing tape before handing them off to her so the packages were easier for her to open, looking back it was probably a complete whirlwind for the guests as they were thinking, did she open mine yet?

I wonder what fun games that gals have planned for me today, I hope nothing too embarrassing!

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The MOB Comes Through Again :)

Many months ago, Groomzilla and I were not sure if we really wanted to register for china, I just wasn't sure if we would use it all that much, you can re-cap all of that here. Needless to say, we found a set at Macy's that we both agreed upon and that was not over the top in cost.

Our selected chinasource
Today I received some great news from MOM, MOB, Best lady ever, who found my china on Amazon.com for a 1/3 of the cost cheaper than at Macy's! This was music to my ears because I was concerned if we didn't receive all of our china that we registered for meant quite a bit out of pocket for us once we had to complete the set.

Moral of this story: Just goes to show that as always, moms will continue to look out for us no matter how old we are, no matter when we fly the coup, no matter when they hand us off to our Misters Groomzilla, in some shape or form we will always be on their minds :)

For tonight's project I am working on my DIY Rehearsal Dinner Invitations! Can't wait to share with you all! :)

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