Hey That’s A Nice Life

As I mentioned yesterday, my friends threw a fabulous shower for me on Saturday, March 28.  I did not, however, mention that my office also held a shower the day before.   So it was a whole weekend of celebrations and gifts … and that means a pile of thank you notes to write.

The weekend started at 3 p.m. on Friday when my co-worker Tori and my boss Susan threw a shower at the office.  A co-ed shower, actually … so Don was able to attend.  We had a great time.  There was lots of champagne and really delicious desserts.  And, of course, presents.  Susan also made a very sweet toast.  The shower theme was “Sunrise to Sunset” and it was a time of day shower (where everyone picked a time and brought something that Don and I could use at that hour of the day).  Very fun!

The next morning, my friend Kelly came to whisk me off for a mani/pedi while Jaimie, Lynda, Katy and Dawn stayed at my house to set up for the next bridal shower.  We had about 22 women there!  The house looked great.  Jaimie’s theme was Margaritaville and they went all out with a big margarita maker, a themed cake, key lime punch - even tattoos for all the girls.  That may have been everyone’s favorite part.

Here’s a picture of me with Jaimie and Lynda:

Before we opened presents, we played “How well does Susan know the groom.”  I did pretty well, only getting one answer totally wrong and offering “It’s either THIS or THIS” for a couple of answers.  Sadly, no one else was very good at picking Don’s answers.  There were 15 questions and the winner (my cousin Amy) got 5 of them correct.

After the game we opened presents (during which the guests played Wedding Gift Bingo) and then we cut into the beautiful cake.

It was a really great weekend.  Even though I was very self conscious about opening the gifts while everyone watched, I was comfortable and relaxed all weekend.  

Here’s a picture of me and Dawn after the festivities had ended:

So, now I’m working on those thank you notes.  And, you won’t be surprised to read, I made the cards myself about a month ago.  Here’s a shot:

I bought the card stock and matching envelopes at Michael’s.  The image is a photograph Don took when we shot the Save the Date cards.  We printed two images per 4 x6 photograph and cut them in half.  Then I used photo tape to adhere them to the cards.  I hope to get them all written and mailed by the end of the weekend.

I’ve been toying with the idea of wedding cupcakes for a few months and last month I learned that my birthday is the same day as National Cupcake Day.  To me, that seemed like a sign and Don was very agreeable.  After all, who doesn’t love cupcakes?

Also in December, two of my fabulous co-workers and I had a chance to sample some of the Washington Post award-winning cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcakes. 

They.
Are.
Amazing.

Sweet, moist, light, fluffy.  I just can’t say enough about these gems.

Oh, there is one more thing I can say about them … they actually fit into our budget.

Of course, if you’re paying attention you’ll note that Georgetown is in Washington, DC - 3 hours away from our wedding reception site.  Yes, it’s a problem, but these cupcakes are good enough to warrant finding a solution.

The friendly catering manager, Katy, tells me that while they suggest same day consumption for their cute little cakes, they taste pretty great on day two and that we will not have a problem picking up the cupcakes on Friday and serving them on Saturday evening.  On top of that, our friend and neighbor, Martha, offered to chauffeur the little beauties with her when she comes for the wedding (since Don and I are headed in that direction on Wednesday night or Thursday morning).Yippee!  

And, if that’s not enough good news, Katy also told me that they’d be delighted to decorate them (at no additional charge since they’d be decorating them anyway) with the beautiful chocolate sea shells from Guylian that I will provide for them.

I’m giddy with excitement of sharing these amazing little cupcakes with our friends and family.  All that’s left is to pick the flavors.  We can choose anything on the Friday menu and have already selected chocolate and vanilla,  and vanilla and chocolate - but will probably pick one or two more.  I’m thinking lemon blossom sounds YUM and the seasonal cupcake for May is toffee (which I love).  

Check out the Web site - http://www.georgetowncupcake.com/home.html - and click on menu.  What flavors sound good to you?