April Showers Brings JUNE Flowers; my bridal shower!

My mama and my aunts threw me an amazing bridal shower in Niagara Falls. The theme they chose was "April Showers". There were umbrellas, clouds and rain everywhere (it even rained that day!). I was really blown away by all they did for me, I felt like a princess!

 

 

 

 

The shower was held at Red Coach Inn in a room overlooking the rapids of Niagara Falls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My mom made 4 of these rose covered balls by covering a styrofoam ball with roses that she made out of rolled tisse paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My flower girl checking out the cake.

 

 

Loved the roses in the rain boots! Cute!

 

 

Vintage umbrella cups filled with pink & gold m&ms mingled in with the other desserts on the dessert table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Guests were sent recipe cards with the invitation, to fill out with favorite recipes and bring to the shower to fill a pretty pink recipe card box.

 

 

 

Guests were given pretty pink umbrellas...

 

Kate Spade shower gel and....

 

a lip gloss as favors.

 

 

We played bridal shower bingo using heart shaped candies as bingo markers.

 

This was a money tree... I had to answer questions about JT. For every question I got right I could cut money off of the tree. The questions were really hard but it was a really funny game!

 

 

They game me a pink & gold Lilly Pulitzer wallet to put my money tree winnings in!

 

Vintage brooch my mama wore at the party.

 

They even decorated the bathroom!

 

 

 

I gave my mom and my aunts April Shower candles from Yankee Candle to thank them for throwing me my gorgeous shower.

 

The ribbon bouquet.

 

JT... the groom :)

 

Just a few weeks to go... so exciting!

 

xo Lizzie

 

***All of these BEAUTIFUL photos were taken by Vita Bella Photography ***

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wedding Invitations... MAILED! (this just got real)

Our wedding invitations went out earlier this week! We are getting married at a venue with some history so  we decided to mail them with vintage stamps. They actually cost us less than buying custom stamps from Zazzle and I think they looked much better. 

My fiance made piles of stamps that equaled 66 cents and I used a glue stick to stick them to the envelope. The stamps also gave me a history lesson, because I had to look up who some of the people on the stamps were.

Adding up the stamps and gluing them on was a lot of work but my work was not done there... When I took them to the post office they made me hand cancel my own stamps. It was a good thing though because it meant I placed the ink where I wanted it so it didn't mess up the stamps.

I was really glad we decided on vintage stamps, I loved the way they looked!

xo Lizzie

Personalized Butterfly Card

Remember the baby blocks shower gift I made? Well that little girl turned 1 this weekend!

Time is just flying by!

My fiance designed & made this card for her. If you had told me 5 years ago that the 2 of us would one day debate the placement of butterflies on a card for a baby... I would have said you were crazy. But that is exactly what we did!

I think we won't be buying cards anymore - I will be putting him to work more often!

xo Lizzie