my bachelorette party!

saturday was my big girly party and i had a riot! we started off at my house with a *ton* of food (mostly made by my sweet bridesmaids) and fun drinks - a homemade mojito mix and cosmos. we played a fun game called "how well do you know your groom?" which involved me taking jello shots when i got the answer wrong. then we played a game where i had to guess who got me each gift, and of course take a shot when i got it wrong! needless to say, i was quite a few deep into jello shots to start off the night!

the limo came a couple of hours later and we were off to a dueling pianos bar and ended the night at a local 80s dance club. it was FUN! i won't go into details (ahem...) but a fun night was had by all! here are some photos from the evening!

first up - the bride with her bridesmaids! they told all the guests to wear black and asked me to wear a bright outfit - which i think turned out so cute!

here's me and my future mother-in-law (left) and my mom!
here are 2 of my bridesmaids inspecting an "interesting" gift someone got me! LOL!
and here's me at the piano bar up on stage!

all in all...it was a fabulous night and i felt so loved by all of my friends! (we won't talk about things that happened after the piano bar...)

BM jewelry

my bridesmaid kristen's mom is very talented when it comes to making jewelry. she offered a long time ago to make the jewels to be draped from my bridesmaids for the big day, and i was thrilled. i gave them to my girls at our BM dinner a few weeks ago. here is what they look like:
and this how i presented them. they all loved them!

bridesmaid dinner tomorrow!

i am so excited...tomorrow we are going out for dinner and drinks for the first time as "bride and bridesmaids"...!

i really slacked on planning multiple get-togethers since we've been engaged, but finally we are doing it!

i will be giving them the first of many gifts...and i took lovely photos of the gifts, yet we left our camera cable in california! (huge bummer)...so photos will have to wait! and we will be talking about my bachelorette party!

the meeting place, you ask?
image from here

2 words: nothing better.

bridesmaid gifts...

...are so hard to pick out!

i have tossed around SO many ideas, and i still can't decide. i want it to be something memorable, so when they look at/use it, they will remember our wedding. i've thought about makeup bags, jewelry boxes, watches, jewelry, silver revere bowls, etc., and i just can't find/decide on the right idea.

so. what are YOU doing/did you do for your beloved girls?

HELP!