Better late than never ... My Bridal Shower

Ok so its been forever but the pics are finally here ... so take a peak .. at my amazing Winter Wonderland Bridal Shower ....

thats my Mamachka's butt, accompanied by my Sisterchka

check the digs people! Snowflakes, white birch, icicles .... loved it!

there was real food too but you know what your girl likes ...

DESSERT!

The favors were super cute .. tiny bags of pine-cone potpourri....

the guests .. waiting around for me ...

I have arrived!

more dessert .. including a make your own hot chocolate, white cotton candy shooters, white rock candy, and my Sisterchka's yummy cupcakes!

This is my hot hot hot Mamachka in her toilet paper wedding gown ... tell the truth... its incredible!

This is my awesome Mother-in-law-to-be-achka .. being such a wonderful sport as my crazy relatives, blindfolded her, put red lipstick on her, and told her to kiss .. this man ....

yep, he's a hotty!

Then it was my turn .. but, little did I know that the Big Guy stepped in for the cardboard man ...

it was a very good surprise! (ps: disregard the crazy outfit it was part of a diff activity .. ok fine I dress that way everyday .. I admit it!)

Yep, quite a nice surprise .. just like our trip to PARIS .. which I absolutely cant wait for!

I cannot even express how incredibly lucky and loved I felt that day! Yevs, Mushy, Sisterchka, Mamachka, Grandmachka (Natachka) who planned it are just the most amazing group of women I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. And everyone who was there, made the day soo special, no words can relate how grateful I am to them.

Thank you ladies .. you rock my socks everyday.

"Pink Bridal Shower" ... or ... "Why I chose Yevs as a Maid of Honor"

I wanna brag... I have the coolest friends ever.... no, really... EVER! And among them are my two Maids of Honor: Yevs and Mushu-Pork. Mushu lives in the far away land of Washington D.C. (but is coming to visit this weekend, yay!). But Yevs is local and amazes me every day with her insane party planning, gift giving, event finding, and just general coolness skills!

Last year another friend of ours got married and Yevs planned this cute and sweet bridal shower for her at her parents house in honor of the bride's love of all things pink!


Upon arrival guests were given flutes of pink champagne it was the perfect mix of girly and fabulous (two words that are very apt in describing the bride). Yevs bought plastic champagne flutes at a party store and the champagne whole-sale from a store in NJ (no tax! Yep, she's a smarty).





Yevs printed up custom wine bottle labels with the bride and groom's names and the wedding date on them and affixed them to some delish and cheap-o bottles of wine from Trader Joes.


She also created favor bags out of cute burlap sacks that she bought and stuffed with small make-up and beauty gifts.

There was a lot of yummy food but the highlights were this Russian waffle cake made by Yevs (yeh, I know homegirl is like superwoman!) and the pink and violet frosted red velvet cupcakes made by yours truly.


And I save the best element for last. The bride and groom refer to each other almost exclusively as "monkey" so trying to find some way to incorporate this, Yevs found a post Valentine's day sale on Oriental Trading Company and bought these pink monkeys. Since they were on sale, Yevs got them for a few bucks each! It was a really sweet personal touch and the bride could not stop smiling and playing with them all day.


On top of all of these great ideas. Yevs also had a dance instructor come and teach us a few ballroom dances since the bride used to ballroom dance competitively... clearly the rest of us were completely out of luck in trying to keep up with her! But there is nothing like seeing a Russian babushka doing the cha-cha. The whole party was perfection!