a shower for elise

Elise, bride-to-be and Sophia, flower girl-to-be

I love any good excuse for planning a good ol' bash. I love even more that I had the honor of throwing a wedding shower for Elise {the beautiful}, daugher of Robin {friend like a sista}.  Sunday night we threw on our best June Cleaver garb, painted our nails, slathered on the red rouge, and had a good old fashioned bride-to-be party.

Christiana, maid-of-honor, Robin, Elise...just for clarity's sake: Robin is "smoking" a piece of chalk. yes, this party was quite off the charts. It got quite out of control...

 I went with a vintage kitchen theme.  It was so fun to do. Give me a theme and I can run with it, but I have to start with some sort of theme. My mind operates in theme-dom.

I rounded up old aprons, tablecloths, furniture and what not. 

I had to send the girls home with something, so we passed out these cookie mixes. I love the way they turned out. (this is tooooootally off the record, but I have absolutely no doubt that these cookies will NOT turn out. after i had made 1/2 of them, I realized the instructions I was following told me to put all this stuff in a jar when you so clearly need to mix your sugars with butter before moving on to the next steps. if they do not turn out, at least they look really cute and that's what really counts right?? what's on the OUTside...ok. moving on.)

We had to so something besides sit there and look pretty, and I wanted to find a game that was fun without being too cheeseballish. I found this idea on pinterest SOMEWHERE, but never actually pinned it, so I have NO idea where this idea is from, but if you know tell me and I'll give a little credit here. But the idea was a twist on the traditional wrap-somebody-up-in-tp-and-make-them-sorta-look-like-a-bride game.

We started with two dress forms and two baskets of sheer fabric and doo dads.

I was super impressed with the two teams and what they came up with...

Aren't they so pretty?? I'd wear them any day...or wedding day, or whatever...

Although I do love throwing parties, I know my limits. To keep things simple, but fun we decided to do just desserts, namely cupcakes and cookies. We did salted carmel chocolate, cookies and cream, and peanut butter chocolate cupcakes. The two cupcakes that are linked are dangerous...click at your own risk. Unfortunately for you I printed the pb cupcake recipe off and have no idea where it came from now.

While we got the cupcakes set up and got ready to open gifts, the ladies all filled out advice cards for Elise. I had typed up phrases for the guests to finish with their advice. It's innapropriate for me to write, but we decided afterward that each card could be finished with one phrase....I will NOT write it, but you can probably guess. Don't you think??? It just seemed to fit everytime, much to our comic relief :D

I loved making these banners. I've seen them all over...just random vintage sheets and poms, lace, doilies, whatever you've got laying around...fun!

And then the gifts...my little girl was so enthralled. 

She got some super great gifts, including a bunch of handmade gifts, which is always so fun.

We partied hard. The flower girl almost fell asleep...

What a fun night we had! And the best part about throwing an all girl party?? They stayed and helped clean up ! yeah!! I loved being able to do this for you Elise...love ya!

xo,

{alicia}

   TaterTots&Jello