Hosting the Bridal Shower

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Juliet Tiu

Bridal Shower

Shower Day was fun with an intimate crowd. It’s amazing how quickly it all happens after a few months of planning, but rest assured, we all enjoyed the afternoon. My sister-in-law’s maid of honor and friend, Megan, helped the night before.

Theme: Orange

Tabletop: Napkins had Gerbera daisies and stripes, drink umbrellas were perched in square vases with coffee beans, simple bouquet became three small arrangements.

Other decorations: pom-pom paper flowers and wire-edged ribbon

Menu: Vegetable pizza appetizer, veggie bites (aka crudites) with carrot-ginger dipping sauce, poached salmon sandwiches with orange wasabi mustard and asian pasta salad from All on the Road, chicken salad sandwiches, mac-n-cheese, fruit, marble cupcakes with edible flowers, candied orange peels with chocolate dipping sauce, and yellow cake.

Shower games: Who has the closest birthday to the wedding date? and Bridal Bingo

Shower Favor: individual, hand-packed tea bags (theme related) with personalized labels. In this case, we had Orange Orange Pekoe for the happy couple. Thank you, Sheila!

Another quick tip: decorate the gift box instead of wrapping it.

Bridal shower gift hand decorated box

With the New Car

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Juliet Tiu

We traded in our beloved mini-van and bought a station wagon. My daughter said she loves the minivan, but is in the middle of like and love with the new car. The minivan was the only family car she’s ever known… her whole life, she says. It was really kind of cute how attached she was to the car. And now we’re adjusting to a smaller, but more gas efficient, and sporty wagon.

Remember those days when we sat in the back of our parents or friends’ parents’ station wagon? No seats back there anymore… how did we ever survive?

With the new car

Ten Years Ago…

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Juliet Tiu

… I walked down an aisle, and this man took my hand. We had no idea what was ahead, only that we wanted to experience it together. It doesn’t seem like ten years; though much has changed, some things remain the same.

Lunch in Napa

Every year I take out our old wedding cards and read them. I like to remember the ceremony, the reception, who was there to share in our day. The funniest thing was my husband and I read one card and didn’t recognize the names. We couldn’t believe it and thought about breaking out the photo album. By this time, it was midnight… and I really didn’t want to go through pictures then. Of 225 guests, not to remember 2 people? Must’ve been our parents’ friends.

Happy anniversary, Honey. Here’s to the next 10 years, and then some.

Gearing up – Bridal shower

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Juliet Tiu

We just got back from California, and I have a lot of things I want to journal. Hopefully I’ll be able to recall some of the trip details from Napa and San Francisco, not to mention my awesome cousins who opened their home to us for 9 days. We took a ton of pictures, too, but it will have to wait because we’re getting ready for my sister-in-law’s shower which is less than two weeks from now.

My arsenal of entertaining supplies: heavy duty folding tables, folding chairs, paper goods…

bridal shower supplies Drink umbrellas

And we’re making some cute drink umbrellas with orange paper, courtesy of Martha Stewart. You can see the instructions here or here. Abby and I also started making more tissue paper flowers like the one I made at the Craft Social. More to come!

Inaugural Whole Foods excursion

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Juliet Tiu

Went to Whole Foods with the family for the first time and as I suspected, Eastman thoroughly enjoyed the store. There was a lot of, “Hey, look at this!” and “Look at this section.” Here we are checking out one of the food bars. I’m so excited that we found nut-free granola for me and Ollie, and not unreasonably priced, either! Granted, I wouldn’t say we would buy all our groceries there. The two closest Whole Foods locations are not quick drives.

We were visiting a newer location and we made it from one end of the store to the other, and Abby said, “Wait? Weren’t we just here?” Eastman told her we were just at the other end, and she said, “WHAT?! This place is huge!”