The day started with my maid of honor showing up with supplies. She had the favors, which were coffee mugs, plus the gadgets and ingredients needed for making lattes, yum! She even brought me a gift, which was such a surprise! One of the girls at work had 7 bridesmaids and they didn't get her anything when they threw her her shower! My MoH is clearly the best! After we had set up, we had a quick lunch, and then waited for my Mom to show up with the rest of the supplies. She showed up, we finished setting up and setting out the food, and then the guests began arriving.
Okay, seriously, look at all this food! We were fit to serve a king with all this food! My MoH had made a blueberry pie and zuchini bread and also brought scones. I made a cheesecake. My mom made an apple pie and a raspberry pie. And then one of my friends brought coffee cake! Soooo yummy!
These are all the gifts! I'm so lucky! I felt really blessed to have so many people arrive (there were nine of us total - I had originally thought there'd only be six), and I got some really good loot!
Here's all the ladies (minus one who was late) with our coffee mugs (which were the favors) and we'll all drinking lattes, coffees, hot chocolate, or some derivation of! It was awesome!
Now for the gifts! First gift up was from my Mom. I already knew what it was, but I was super excited to open it. Plus I didn't know what color she ended up getting.
Silver! A Kitchen Aid Mixer!! I was super excited. It definitely would have come in handy when making the cheesecake, but oh well! Next time! And now making food won't be such a hassle.
Towels and sheets from one of my coworkers!
Seth's sister got us picture frames and a picture. She has great taste when it comes to this kind of stuff, so I was glad she decided to venture out of the bedroom/bathroom/kitchen theme and get us something else!
This is from another coworker. I'm trying really hard to undo the double or triple knot she decided to put on this thing. Supposedly the number of ribbons you break is the number of kids you're going to have. I didn't break any... but I hope I still have kids!
Sexy lotions! I think they're called Seduction or something like that. I'm glad someone decided to get me something totally random like this!
Yay! Opening a gift from my grandmother who couldn't make it to my shower!
Towels and a cute basket! Purfect! Now I not only have more towels, but a place to store them in in a decorative way.
Thank goodness someone got my a cookie sheet! Seth and I only have one and it's looking pretty beat up. Now we have a new one to ruin! This was from one of my roommates in college who also gave us a cooling rack (yay!!!) and a super muffin tin! Very cool!
I was really surprised that Seth's stepmom went all out with the gifts at the shower. I knew she was coming, but I didn't actually expect her to get us anything! Seth's dad and stepmom had already purchased our very cool washer/dryer earlier this year when we moved into the house! She ended up getting me a bunch of serving dishes and forks and knives, which is sooo perfect. They love to serve people whenever we come over their house, and now we can return the favor when they come over ours!
A waffle iron! This was the gift from my maid of honor! She got a pretty sweet one too. This is the one gift I've actually already used! This morning, I looked up a sweet waffle recipe and Seth, his sister, his best man, and myself went to town making waffles. The first one looked pretty silly because I didn't put enough batter in the iron, but the rest came out great!
This is my finished ribbon bouquet! I was really impressed how it came out! I was worried I'd only have like four ribbons and it would look pretty silly, but this actually looks respectable. I'll be using this at the rehearsal dinner on the 26th.
Finally a group shot of all the lovely ladies who came to my shower, including my friend's newborn baby (3 days old)! Thanks girls!!
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