Bridal Shower...

Saturday morning (November 21st) I attended the bridal shower for Holly Walker soon to be Mrs. Seth Kravetz. I was very impressed with all the work that Seth's mom and 2 sisters did to make this a wonderful shower for Holly. The shower was held in the Relief Society room at Church. One of his sisters, Marissa, is a photographer. She had all the sepia toned pictures of Seth and Holly strung on a wire across the room and placed on the tables. They had white table cloths on round tables with white table toppers on them. Each table had a bouquet of flowers tied with a ribbon in the center. Seth's other sister, Chelsea, decorates cakes. She'll actually make and decorate their wedding cake. She made a beautiful chocolate cake and decorated it for our dessert. We played a game to begin. One the wall was an 11 x 17 picture of Seth. You were given a sticker that was like someone had blotted their lipstick on clear paper. You were blindfolded and were to try and plant a kiss on Seth. Everyone who wanted to participate took a turn and Holly got to go last. Then we were served a wonderful lunch. I had not eaten breakfast and was really expecting a punch and cookie thing for refreshments. I was very pleasantly surprised to find we were served lunch. We had tossed salads and soup in bread bowls. You had a choice of Italian Wedding Soup or Loaded Potato Soup. I picked the Loaded Potato Soup. We played another game where they had Holly sit in the front. Each of the attendees were given a sheet of paper. Chelsea had a basket with different kinds of candy. Holly would pick a candy out of the basket and think of a sentence about Seth using the name of the candy. While Holly did this we each thought up a sentence about Holly using the name of the candy and wrote it on our paper. They were going to make a book with these sentences for Holly and Seth. After this game we were each given a balloon full of air. We tossed them around so they were all mixed up. Then we each got a balloon and sat on it to pop it. If the paper inside the balloon was a picture of Seth and Holly you got to pick one of the candy's as your prize. The last game was to see if Holly actually knew Seth well enough to marry him. Marissa had 17 questions they had previously asked Seth the answers to and recorded them on their lap top computer. Holly was asked a question and had to guess what Seth's answer would be. After Holly gave her answer we watched and listened to Seth give his answer on the computer. If Holly was wrong in what she guessed Seth would say, she has to put a HUGE piece of bubble gum in her mouth and chew it. If she was right, she didn't have to put another piece of gum in her mouth. Holly did really well and answered many of the questions correctly. But she answered enough wrong till she was chewing one big wad of gum by the end of the game. Then we ate cake while Holly opened presents. Each guest was given a little bottle of Purell like lotion before eating the cake. Each guest was also given a quart jar with hot chocolate mix in it and some marshmallows and some mints. The theme for the shower was 'Around the Clock'. Your invitation came with a time in it. Your gift for the shower was to be something Holly and Seth could use during that time of the day. My invitation had 12 Noon on it. I printed all my salad recipes on fun paper and put them in plastic sleeves. Then I bought a notebook with colored circles decorating it and I purchased dividers that matched the notebook cover. I have all my recipes in 3 big binders and I thought this might be a fun beginning for Holly's recipe collection. Then I got a large clear bowl that you could make a salad in and 4 clear glass bowls you could use to eat your salad in. So my gift was salads for lunch. It was a very nice shower and I truly appreciated the love and care and effort Seth's mother and sisters put into this shower.