lemonade {bridal shower}

I love how simple a theme this lemonade shower was and how very cute it turned out!

This was another church shower so I planned with a "committee" and my friend, Danielle, hosted at her home.

This tray was from a set of 3 that was a birthday gift from a friend. 

All the flowers were picked from local back yards... and front yards!

The lemons in the jar were real, but the one sitting out was a cute ceramic lemon I found, just recently, at Target.

The garland was my favorite part for sure! I resized a free printable I found online and then even printed a pink chevron on the back side (sorry, I have no pictures of that side)! I used my 2" hole punch for easy cutting and then sewed the lemons together at different heights on the lemon to create the slightly uneven look I was going for! Then, I just got a few yards of the pink pom poms and the yellow zig zags. Watch out! I'm pulling out the intense technical terms now!! ;)

I also loved the sliced lemons in this vase/pitcher... however, they were not so easy to do. 

For this success, I found a cylinder vase that just fits into the pitcher and I was able to do one side with lemon slices- by holding the vase on it's side, laying out lemon slices and then carefully inserting the cylinder vase. Took me waaay to long to figure that out, but it sure is a cute end result!

Now for the actual lemonade! Which of course, I didn't take a picture after we filled the dispensers with regular and pink lemonade... but I think you'll get the idea.

The lemonade sign was inspired by the adorable letter stickers from Hobby Lobby. Which I then layered scrapbook paper, added ribbon, ribbon holes and a few cute flower stickers I had on hand to snazzy it up.

All the lilacs smelled wonderful!

I printed the lemon printable on white sticker sheets and used my 2" hole punch just like for the garland. The straws I had from a party store in Houston... they were too cute to pass up when I saw them last year!

The food table was super cute as well!

bacon ranch cheese ball and crackers

Above and below are the other 2 cute trays from my 3 tray set 

{a gift to me, but from Sam's Club originally}

Girl Scout "lemonade" cookies and the invite from this Etsy shop.

Chocolate coated oreos on a stick, sitting in lemon heads... can you say adorable? :)

Mini chicken salad cups... yummy and pretty!

And pinwheels to complete the snack foods for out 2pm shower!

Here's my pinterest board for more ideas.

I could really use a tall glass of ice cold lemonade about now...

breakfast coffee shop {bridal shower}

2015 is the year of weddings and all things wedding related. My younger sister is getting married in about a month (lots more on that as it happens!) and several couples from our church are taking the plunge this year as well ;)

This is a breakfast coffee shop themed shower I did for my friend, Chelsea. 

This was a church shower so we had a "committee" of five and my friend, Erin, hosted at her home.

I made this cool coffee filter wreath with these instructions. I found both colors of filters at my local grocery store. I did not cut a hole, but rather just used a large darning needle and poked through the center of the filters. I also tied a knot on both sides of each "bunch" of 15 filters so that they would be sure to clump together... basically you just scrunch and crumple after that part!

This printable was a download from etsy that I got on sale.

Both the love signs on the right I already had {from Target & Gordman's clearance sections}

The invitation was done by my very skilled friend, Samantha.

I also had this coffee art already, originally from Gordman's

This cute antique strawberry crate/basket is from Kevin's grandma. I spray painted these recycled cans in blue, silver and copper. Then filled them with mixed white flowers and greenery for party favors. I think they look so sweet :)

Now for the all important breakfast FOOD table!

I found this cute blue coffee pot and the thrift store for $1 and the sign is from Hobby Lobby. 

O yes, and the candles! For cans that didn't have flowers, I filled them with coffee beans and a tea light so we'd get that coffee shop smell (pinterest gets the credit for this idea... of course)!

I have finally found a donut shop in town that is worthy of my attention! Market street bakery is wonderful, especially their chocolate icing! These are waxed paper bags, that I folded down and added ribbon for cuteness and color! 

The other girls, made sausage biscuits, fruit cups, blueberry muffins & cinnamon rolls, YUM!

My friend also designed the stickers for our coffee sleeves, they are too cute!

Obviously we have coffee and additives... and OJ :)

Our activity was a custom crossword puzzle. It was so fun and personal and fit the breakfast coffee shop theme to a T! 

{You can just google custom crossword and there are several options on multiple sites}

Hard at work on the crossword... Yes, I do believe Danielle is cheating on her phone ;)

Sadly, this is the only other pic I took of people: Chelsea opening up her gifts.

Now you may think this shower is all about me and my love for coffee, but Chelsea certainly enjoys her coffee as well! And who doesn't love breakfast?!?!

Here's my pinterest board for the shower.

sarah is getting married so I threw her a paaartay

My little sister (Sarah) is getting married (sniff, sniff *tear*)

I got to host her bridal shower this weekend and it was so much fun!

Warning: there are lots of pictures and I'll probably post again so you can see all my "pinsperations"

First impressions are always important and one of my favorite parts of the shower was indeed the invitation (print file from this etsy shop)

I love how cute this ruffle wreath is (DIY project, details here!)

Awww Sarah & Tristan

Everything turned out out so pretty (again, thanks to pinterest!)

I LOVE flowers and I love decorating with them and I love taking pictures of them so....

I got all the different ribbons at Hobby Lobby and hot glued them to the mason jars

The flowers were from the grocery store.

Each guest wrote a note/saying of love or wisdom to Sarah on a spoon!

(I forgot to take an after pic)

Now comes the all-important food

(I got all my fabrics from JoAnn's)

Mini cinnamon rolls

Fruit salad

Breakfast crescent ring

(with hashbrowns, bacon, egg & cheese)

Blue cheese stuffed mushrooms

(a go-to favorite, recipe previously posted here)

& asparagus mushroom quiche

(this was very yummy!)

I had a bunch of different fruit juices on had so you could create your own mimosa

Besides flowers, mimosas also make it on the list of things I love :)

And you know I can't do anything without cupcakes,

but these are MUFFINS... with icing

Banana muffins with peanut butter buttercream

Chocolate chip sour cream muffins with chocolate buttercream

&

Blueberry cupcakes with lemon cream cheese icing

Finally some pictures of people!!!

This is the family table

and this is the friend table

We started game time with this fun door prize:

"who has the groom"

the envelopes were taped to the bottom of each guest's chair and the person who had the groom was the lucky winner (everyone else had a celebrity Mr.)! These seriously crack me up every time I look at them!!!

The next game we played was called Staches & Tiaras.

I read a question and then an answer and guests had to guess if the answer was the groom's or the bride's and hold up a mustache (groom) or tiara (bride) to cast their vote

Tristan & Sarah gave the same answer for several of the questions so I guess that means they are going to get along all right :)

This is my mom... she doesn't usually have a mustache ;)

We also played wedding scattergories, match the wedding clue to the candy & the price is right.

I'll give more details on those in another post b/c they were all fun games to play at a shower/party!

Also, I didn't take any pictures during opening the gifts... I think getting up at 5:30 to get everything done by the 10:30 party time fried my brain... you know, more than it's usually fried anyway :)

Here's the formal family shot

and the friend picture

and Sarah (my sis) & I

Isn't she beautiful?! Tristan has no idea what a good catch he's made... but he'll figure it out :)

Sorry for the load of pictures, but it was so fun and I wanted to share!! 

UPDATE: See all my pinsperations on this follow up post

UPDATE: See how to plan for & play the games in this follow up post

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