Bridal shower recap: part 3

I have another shower recap for you today! You can check out recaps one and two here & here.

I seriously had the most amazing time! After each post, I realize there are even more pictures that I want to show!

So here it goes:

I loved these straws the very first time I saw them! One side of the tag says, "Love is sweet" and the other side says, "7.16.11"!

The desserts and drinks all had name tags.

Along with the invitation, my mom sent a request to bring a recipe to the shower. Here is the basket where everyone placed their recipes! Hopefully, now I'll learn to cook... Oh, and the chair covers! Yeah, they were all re-covered to match the shower colors. Amazing...

Sean's mom brought me these flowers and they are so beautiful! They're now in my bedroom!

Feather decorations!

Don't these look fake?! They were so pretty -- people didn't know they were real!

Ah! These strawberries, again. Luckily, we have some left over and I've been eating one [a few] a day.

Cute water bottles!

Glasses all lined up... ready for the taking! Do you remember this post about champagne glass name tags? Well, they're in the picture... can you spot them?! Oh, and all these tissue poms in each picture... my aunt hand-made them... each and every one!

Favors! Inside there were yummy Godiva chocolates!

Now that I've shown you all the details of the shower -- I feel like I can actually tell you about it!

Be sure to check back tomorrow!

Bridal shower recap: part 2

Hopefully you got a chance to check out my post about my bridal shower decorations. If not, here you go!

My shower, this past Saturday, was a dessert shower. So while there were a few food/lunch options (which we'll get to later in the week!) the main course, if you will, were treats.

Mostly they were from Konditor Meister, where our wedding cake will be from! They were absolutely delicious and these bride and groom covered strawberries were by far my favorite!








How cute?!?!




The desserts were portioned out into mini shot glasses, mini martini glasses, mini beer mugs... pretty much, imagine everything you've ever seen... now imagine it in "mini" form and know that we had it holding a dessert. They were amazing!







All the desserts had these fancy name cards so that everyone knew what they were getting themselves into!













This cake is my favorite!! It's the same as the bottom tier of our wedding cake! =)




I love these cupcakes! And I love the little bride and groom decorations, too!










Amazing, right?!

Tomorrow's post will include EVEN more decor, our beverage stations and then the gifts. Oh the gifts...

Bridal Shower!!!!

Apparently, I took some days off blogging.

I didn't even mean to... it just happened.

Yesterday was my bridal shower!!! It was absolutely amazing and I can't wait to show you all every.single.thing.

I'm still getting the pictures organized.

But while I do that... I leave you with this:


Tomorrow I'll show off the amazing decorations! WAIT until you see....

Candy and desserts.

I really love the idea of having a candy bar and/or a dessert buffet at the wedding. Even more, I love when all the candy has a color scheme and the desserts have cute signs telling guests what to expect. It's the best. I wanted pictures of this pretty popular trend so I looked them up on google.

[All these images are from Google.]

Cute, right?

So - question... is this something just to look at? Or do you think all the guests actually appreciate and eat said candy/desserts? And if it's only for show... is that okay?

It's so cute!