a bridal shower and a rain storm! part 2

Last we left off, I showed you some of the food labels, named in alliteration. I had cheaply acquired wonderful apothecary jars for a sweet buffet of some sort, so in-line with the orange and yellow theme, we had a jello buffet!

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Luckily, at my local supermarket I found fun jello flavors like Pineapple and Peach. If I had more time, I would've made some lychee and Mango ones. That will be for another post :)

Now what's a bridal shower without gifts for the attendees! To go along with out theme, I printed labels for the gift bags that said "thanks for attending" and labels with a website for guests to upload their pictures for the bride to be. Also to make things easier for the bride when she sits down to thank the guests, i had each guest address an envelope for their thank you cards to be mailed to them.

From christina lee photography

From christina lee photography

From christina lee photography

We found a great sale at Bath and Body Works of mini-hand sanitizers in the lovely lemon scent and another great spring sale at Crate & Barrel of orange flower candles to go with the spring and fun theme!

Stay tuned for part 3 :)

a bridal shower and a rain storm! part 1

Weather in Boston is a strange matter. You can wake up to beautiful morning sunshine rays and before you brush your teeth it can be raining cats and dogs. On the very lovely J's bridal shower, the weather was just that. Nice cool breezy morning with nice morning sun as I ran around getting groceries and day of materials like flowers and cake (we had a mini-cake buffet). Then by the time I got home and ready to prep... I was sweating bullets as well as my lovely ladies who just flew in from California for the bridal shower. In the words of one lovely A, "I suppose this is real summer!" Yes indeed... real summer not the weak NorCali summer 65 cloudy breezy day.

For the shower we booked a lovely venue that had a beautiful dining/living/kitchen set up as well as an outdoor patio area (just in case it rained).  And good thing we had a just in case plan! I went to set up around noon and got all the decorations ready inside. By the time the shower started at 2pm, it was pouring cats and dogs and thunder-storming. So much so, across the street our friend's apartment was severely flooded.

Well, what's a bridal shower without the details! Our theme for this lovely July summer party was yellow, orange, and, blue summer fun! Hence the paper ball arrangement to set the tone as guests arrived. These lovely creatures at 20 circles a piece took about 30 min per ball, not a quick exercise, but most definitely rewarding when you get to the finished product!

For the food labels, I wanted to incorporate little elements of the bride-to-be, so we created food alliterations with adjectives to describe the bride-to-be. Since bunting is in style, we created blue, yellow, orange bunting designs for the cards with the bride's initials.

There's so much more.... stayed tuned for the rest! :)

what's a disaster to some is beauty to others

A visited from Cali and witnessed first-hand the crazy weather of Boston. After a large thunderstorm burst, with lots of flooding.... A took these pictures and exclaimed how beautiful it was.

Never thought anyone would find our shabby outside of a house to be cute....but after a large storm A thought it was....