Actually, that stands for Bridal Shower! My maid of honor, Angela, put together a fabulous bridal shower Saturday at the Rose Tree Garden flower & tea shop.
We'd gone there for tea months ago and Angela reserved their outdoor patio for a June 10 bridal shower tea. All we had to do was pick out the teas, the tea sandwiches and the scone flavors and show up. All parties should be this easy!
In attendance: family (my mom, cousin Marian, cousin Judy and her daughter, Bridget, and my aunt's sister, Nora); friends from Mormon circles (women from the ward I grew up in, my current ward and from my days in the singles ward); one friend/confidant from work (who had the good sense to transfer out of my dysfunctional section); longtime women friends I've met through mutual friends, Mormon studies connections or both; a friend from the 2-year counseling certification class I took; one friend who's not Mormon, but I met her when she visited my ward (her husband is also responsible for my second tattoo); and one friend I've known since high school (who's hit it off so well with some of my rogue Mormon friends that they want to adopt her when I leave).
I don't know that I've had this many women I love in one place at one time. In fact, I'm getting a little teary typing this as I think about all the wonderful, strong, intelligent, creative, supportive, resilient and hilariously funny women I have in my life. And that wasn't even ALL of them! I am, in a word, blessed to have them in my circle--and to have so many circles come together and overlap. I'm glad I'll be seeing so many of them again at the wedding, plus I'm marrying into a whole CLAN of them when I join the Stevens family. They rock!
Oh my lord, did they SPOIL me! Their generous group gift: an 8-hour day of treatments at Amadeus Spa and gift certificates to spend at Lush and Origins--two of my favorite places for deliciously-scented bath and body products. My profound thanks for making me feel so pampered and loved! I'll be so relaxed, I may forget my own name...
I'll post the link to some of the pictures Wendy took. Hope it works. If not, I'll post individual shots later.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=pi9fe2z.6tk0o1br&x=0&y=9gjb5n
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3 comments:
t'will be strange not having you within immediate-driving-range. just thought about that this weekend. hmm. so strange that friends can feel comfort in knowing that someone is pretty damn local, yet you don't get to see them all the time but it's cool because you know there "here", somewhere at least and not really, really far away and if you had to, you could be there in about an hour.
unless the 110 is f'd up.
xoxox
wendy
i meant "their".
not "there".
mrs. gilley would kill me.
xoxox
wendy
My childhood friend, Suzie said the same thing--that even if we hadn't gotten together much, we could if we wanted to. Texas makes that harder.
I hope our proximity to South Padre Island will lure friends to come visit. After all, 32,000 drunk college students recommend it for Spring Break!
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