Happily Ever After

Kristen's bridal shower was on Sunday. You may remember reading about the party planning a while back so I'm excited to share the details of how it all actually came together...

Packing everything up to take to the shower venue.

I framed some quotes I found online (mostly from Pinterest) that fit the fairy tale / love story theme and we set them out around the private room we rented at Picán restaurant in downtown Oakland.

My personal favorite:

"Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale."

I also found the perfect scrapbook I filled with adorable pictures of K and B together to use as a guestbook. (It's in the bottom-right corner in the photo above.) I'm going to add in pictures from the shower for Kristen to keep as a memento.

I was also pretty happy with how the banner turned out. I just printed "Bride to Be" on the same white card stock as the invitations and taped it to the pink card stock backing to leave a thin border, then hole-punched the top corners and strung the twine through. The restaurant had the perfect wine rack where we could hang it along with some hot pink tissue paper pompoms via Martha at either end. 

Here I am with the beautiful bride-to-be and lovely MOH Jennifer. 

We set some gray stripey straws at the bar next to a cute little succulent, as well as in the water glasses at each place setting.

The bride and her future SIL enjoying a delicious lavender lemon drop martini that conveniently matched the party's color scheme.

For the centerpieces, we set potted flowers (left and right photos below are baby roses and center is a hydrangea) atop classic fairy tales, love stories, and romantic collections of poems tied with raffia.

We also broke out the old Scrabble game and spelled out as many wedding-related words/phrases as we had letters for. Then we scattered glass pebbles and Hershey's kisses for the finishing touch.

I can't take credit for the menu cards and games. Jennifer did an amazing job with those and were a huge hit. We set them at each place setting while we were setting up so we didn't have to spend quality time passing things around during the party. 

We also put these little note cards in the same colors from Target at each place setting so guests could write their words of wisdom for marital bliss or just general well wishes to Kristen that we'll include in the guest book along with pictures of the guests.

Then we filled glittery silver favor boxes from Pier 1 with chocolates for guests to take home.

Kristen was the most adorable little girl and everyone loved admiring her childhood photos and guessing her age.

The keys are actually bottle openers from Bed, Bath & Beyond. Jen also found the adorable bags for the prizes. And she actually made those flower pens for my own bridal shower a few years ago. (I've used them for a few parties since then -- I love them!)

The ladies all insisted Kristen showcase her place setting as she opened gifts containing the various pieces.

Kristen was not very impressed with the ribbon bouquet I crafted. (And she'll probably kill me for including this picture.)

Kristen, I love you and can't wait to see you marry your prince charming and live happily ever after! 
There's no one more deserving of a fairy tale ending than you.

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