A Partay For the Bride-To-Be

The over-friendly takeover by mass amounts of estrogen has ceased. In other words...the Bridal Shower held at our household is over and for the most part cleaned up...only four hours post-start time. Pretty decent I would say, but then again I have no idea how long these things are supposed to last.

It was a great success if I do say so myself. After the Maj had been baking mini muffins and cupcakes (and sending me to every store in town looking for the mix) for days in advance, creating pasta salads and salad of the fruit variety, and working on the cookbook party favors how could things not go smoothly? We only forgot one person...and their name tag...and a place setting or two...and a couple people's recipes in the book. No big dealll. Everything went smoothly.

The large assortment of beverages available included wine, lemonade, iced tea, and the largest container with a spout filled with water and lemons that you've probably ever seen. We're talking a container on the roids. I had the lovely job of filling that puppy up with water...and then with enough ice to construct the iceberg that sunk the Titanic...

For the lunch part (otherwise known as my favorite part), we had a chicken pesto pasta salad that was an extreme shade of green and 110% delicious, a fruit salad that could have fed a family of giants, broccoli salad (I'm not sure why it was called this...it was coleslaw-esque with random nuts [including some nut that was in the same family as the pumpkin seed?] and a bunch of crunchy things...), and cold potato leek soup complete with a lot of cream making it pretty darn scrumptious. So the food spread was pretty beautimous. Then we had three different types of mini muffins...banana nut, blueberry (more commonly referred to as 'bluebs'), and my favorite lemon poppyseed. Onward to the desserts! Coconut cupcakes (which contained more butter than you would ever want to be aware of), lemon squares, some mint chocolate things, and cool chocolates that were molded into fun shapes (like hearts and high heels and hats...pretty great).

I was assigned the job of 'Scribe' for the gift opening sector of the event. This meant that I had to squeeze myself into the small space on the floor behind Amanda's chair, half guess people's names, and come up with crafty ways of wording gifts. Don't worry, the list ended up with four different colors on it and didn't include a single scratch out! I wrote down things such as 'cheese tools,' 'pizza basket filled with miscellaneous pizza items,' and other such helpful descriptors. Hopefully she knows what I meant...

All in all, twas a grand affair! Well done Maj and Aunt Karen, congratulations Amanda and Ben, annnd thank you to everyone who came!

*I'm not entirely sure what the deal is with the font on this post, but yes, it's really bothering me that I cannot get it to match the rest of the blog!