Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2012

Bridal Shower!

Yesterday we had Chelsea's bridal shower!
Isabel and I worked very hard on it for the last 2 weeks.
This outfit was Isabel's gift to her sister!
I managed to snap a very few pictures right before the shower started, and then my battery died! One of the bridesmaids took reallt great pictures which I will share when I get them.
This is the punch table with traditional punch, ice bucket, and lemonade. The punch bowl on the right with the lemonade was thrifted for $6.00! It came with 10 cups and a floating glass ladle! I was able to pick up extra glass punch cups for .50 cents a piece at Goodwill. I now own about 35!
This is a quick snap of the bridal table. I wish I had a better one to show you. I love all of the satin chair covers and for the bridal table we stuck little flower bouquets in the back!
This is a lace parasol that my girlfriend borrowed to me. This gets passed around in her family whenever anyone has a shower.You just change the ribbons and flowers to match the brides colors.  She comes from a family with 15 kids, so she has like 7 or 8 sisters. This has been passed around a lot and its still in great shape.
 I was honored she offered to let me use it!
This is the party favor, a candy buffet! All of the glassware was thrifted, and then I polished up the silver serving spoons from my own family set of silver. It all looked so pretty!
Isabel and I made all the boxes. They were supposed to have a little plastic bag of candy with a ribbon, but we decided to punch holes on the sides and add a handle. We tied 2 little silver rings on the handle with the organza ribbon. Love the way they turned out!
I wish I had a good picture of the whole room to show you. 
It all turned out so pretty!
We had so much fun and all of our family and friends truly showered her with everything she will need to set up her new home in September when she gets married!
We are so blessed!

xx
~Annie

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Bridal shower in 2 weeks~Aagghh!!

Chelsea chose her 13 year old sister to be her maid-of-honor.
 (Here they are dressed in the japanese kimonos their grandmother left to them)

 So that means her sister must give the shower.
 And since she is 13, that means essentially I am giving the shower. 
LOL!
But I am thrilled to do it.


 (Here is a much nicer picture of Isabel, she would kill me if she knew I posted that picture above, but luckily she never reads my blog!)

We are having a very traditional shower.
 Women only-no boyfriends or fiances!
Just 4 generations of women
 getting together to make the bride feel special
 and shower her with the essentials of setting up a home.
They will not live together until the wedding, 
so she needs everything. 
Just like in the old days, 
I love it!

One of the things we are doing is passing out advice cards to all of the guests. I designed them myself. They will be cut in half once I get them printed, making 2 cards per page.

What do you think?

xx
~Annie

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Getting married

This is my beauty getting married in September. Every day it becomes more real!
I'm so happy for her but its still hard to let her go!
Love you so much my darling!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

She said yes to the dress!

We started looking for a wedding dress for Chelsea yesterday. I did not expect to find anything-it was our first day looking. We tried one of those chain bridal stores, but then we went to a great little boutique and she fell in love with 3 dresses, and then finally chose one! I can't believe it! The very first day! Here are pictures of 3 of the runners up. I won't reveal the gorgeous dress she got, but let me just say it is stunning!! Elegant! Unbelievable! She looks absolutely radiant in it! You'll have to wait for the wedding pictures next June to see!
This is the first runner up at the first store we went to.

Here is runner up #3 at the 2nd store. The pictures really don't do this dress justice-it was really pretty.And finally the first runner up. It really ended up being a choice between this one and the dress she chose! This one was SO sparkly!

The very first dress she tried on, I got all choked up!It was really something to see my little darling standing there in a wedding dress! So awesome-we had a wonderful day!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Engaged!!

My oldest DD got engaged last Saturday night!
Congratulations Chelsea and Bo!

We are so excited for them! Whoo~hoo!!!