39: Bridal Shower Recap

39 days to go!

My bridal shower was hosted at my matron of honor's house by both my matron of honor Kylie and my maid of honor Farina.

The theme was a Tiffany Blue Tea Party - we served tea sandwiches and yummy finger foods. We had two cakes - a Tiffany Blue Box cake (that my maid of honor baked and decorated) and a Tiffany Blue 1/4 sheet cake (from a local grocery store). We served iced tea, and lemonade and champagne!



We played some games ... toilet paper bride, how well do you know the bride, and gift bingo! It was so much fun!!!

My neice Shyann

Jon's cousin Haley


My friend Holly

After games - I opened the mountain of gifts that my family and friends showered me with! I got some great gifts from my registry - and some unexpected surprises! While I was opening my gifts, my matron of honor Kylie made me a ribbon bouquet to use at the rehearsal!

I didn't break a single ribbon!!!

After I opened all my amazing, thoughtful & generous gifts - I cut the cake, drank some more champagne, read my "notes of advice", and took some photos with family and friends!

Me & my matron of honor/best friend Kylie


My & my cousin/maid of honor Farina

Me & my mom

My & my neice/flowergirl Shyann

Me & my step-mom Melinda

Me & my cousin/wedding officiant Judy

It was a very special day that turned out absolutely perfect! I was surrounded by my dearest friends and amazing family. Thank you to everyone who made my special day so wonderful!!!

42: Bridal Shower Day

42 days to go!

Today is my bridal shower!

I'm pretty excited and anxious. The planning for this party started many months ago as my matron of honor and I started exchanging emails discussing ideas and themes. It seems like that was only yesterday! I can hardly believe it's here!

Check back soon for recaps of this special day!!!

52: Bridal shower decorating details

52 days to go!

You may remember that I have a hard time letting go of control so I've been pretty involved in the planning of my bridal shower .

Over the weekend (I had a very productive weekend) I spent some time working on some decorating details for the shower. I don't want to give away too many of the details ... but it's an adapted "tea" party with a Tiffany blue and white theme.

Here are some of the decorating details I saw to over the weekend:

This is a "welcome" sign I made that includes information
about the "notes of advice" and directions for one of the games

*This was printed on left over card stock from our invitations and uses the same design background - I used a colored font to match the color theme of the shower*

This is the "wish bowl" for the "notes of advice"
(It's actually the hurricane vase I'll be using
for the memory candle at our reception)
*I used blue and white crete paper to decorate both the hurricane vase {above} and the martini glass {below}. I used left over card stock from our RSVP cards for the sign on the "wish bowl"*

My giant martini glass that will be filled with Hershey Kisses at the shower

(And also with Hershey Kisses at the reception)
*I don't know if you realized, but I kinda have a thing for Hershey Kisses *

I've got a few more little decorating details that I'm working on this week and next week - and I feel very lucky that both my matron of honor and maid of honor (the shower hosts) are allowing me to be apart of the planning and letting me use my creative side to take care of some of the details (that, let's face it, in the end only I'll notice or care about anyways).

53: Bridal Shower Dress Shopping

53 days to go!

Over the weekend, after my first dress fitting, my mom and I went shopping! She was on the search for the perfect dress to wear to the wedding and I was searching for something to wear to my bridal shower!

We decided we would go to the Roseville Galleria and see what we could find. Our first stop was at The Cheesecake Factory for a light lunch and then we headed to Macy's . Macy's always has a large selection of dresses in all types of styles and prices. The first dress that caught my eye was almost $300 - way out of my price range! We gathered up some dresses for my mom to try on and I fell in love with the first one she put on. For me, it was all down hill from there. After Macy's we headed to JC Penney's to see what they had to offer. JC Penney's also always had a lot of dress selections. I must have tried on 10 dresses and ended up purchasing three! That's right - I said three! They were all on sale ... and the way I figure it - I'm going to need something for the rehearsal and possibly my bachelorette party so I saved myself some time by getting all my shopping done in one day!

I absolutely love the dresses that I bought. I don't think I've had such a successful shopping trip in a long time! AND my mom and I ended up going back to Macy's and she bought that very first dress she tried on!

Here's the dress I decided I would wear to the bridal shower!
*I love this dress with the wide belt at the waist and the ruffle*

64: My bridal shower invitations

64 days to go!

By now, all the invited guests have received their shower invitations so I thought I would post a photo of them because they turned out sooo good!

We got the invites from Etsy and they were made by seller inkOBSESSIONdesigns! Don't you just L-O-V-E them!!! I do! I do!


My bridal shower is coming up in just a few short weeks! You may remember that I have a hard time giving up control so of course I've been involved in the planning and executing of the shower. The details are all coming together and it's going to be absolutely amazing!

74: Bridal shower details

74 days to go!

Yep, I'm one of those "controlling" girls that has a hard time not knowing every little detail and being apart of every aspect. WITH that being said ... I was most definitley involved in the planning process of my bridal shower ... and luckily I have such amazing women in my life who know all about my crazy control issues and love me just the same :)

SO ... my bridal shower is being thrown by my wonderful and amazing maid of honor, my cousin Farina, and my matron of honor, one of my best friends Kylie. Kylie graciously offered to host the party at her home in Sacramento!

As I've mentioned before, we are having a Tea Party ... but I really don't want to give away too many of the lovely details ... the party is just a few short weeks away ... BUT the invitations are going in the mail tomorrow! The wedding is getting closer and closer every day and my excitement continues to grow more and more! Stay tuned for more details about the shower after it's taken place ... and maybe I'll post a picture of the absolutely adorable invites after all my lovely ladies have received their invites :)

94: Tea party!

94 days to go!

My maid of honor/cousin Farina and my matron of honor/best friend Kylie are throwing me a Bridal Shower Tea Party in early February! I'm very excited and I've spent the majority of this week focusing on the details and decision making of this special event with both my cousin and best friend.

The days are ticking away and every day is one day closer to the BIG day!