Sticking with the theme, we obviously had a mimosa bar! I also tried to monogram just about everything. The future bride's last name will be Shadakofsky, so all of our monograms are an 'S'. We were also fortunate enough to have her sweet gram allow us to have the party at her beautiful home.
Our color scheme was black and burlap and went with a little bit of country chic for the decorations to go along with the monograms and mimosas.
We had 9 guests, so we used two tables. At the main table we had a burlap table runner and some awesome rhinestone ribbon that we ran down the center of the table runner.
Gram ordered this awesome fresh flower arrangement for our center piece and had burlap incorporated into it by having it wrapped around the vase.
This was the brides place setting. I put a diamond ring napkin ring with her name card to set her place apart from everyone else's. We had black chargers to accent the places and then gram let us use Cati's great grandmothers silver for our cutlery!
Here is our second table. The 'S' was a 3D brown cardboard S. I got two of them at Hobby Lobby for $2.00 each and painted them black.
The awesome place card holders are also from Hobby Lobby and my sweet Grandma Connie let me borrow them from her!
We only had a chair at one end of the table, so the other end we set up another cardboard 'S' and a black flower which is actually a lamp decoration. It was a magnet in it as well as one that goes with it, so it worked perfectly and we were able to attached it to the table runner and keep everything in place.
Close up of the end of the main table.
This was our guest sign in table. At one of Cati's first showers one of her hostesses started this awesome bucket list. It is a few pieces a scrapbook paper decorated for the couple. As the guests arrive, they add something for the couples bucket list.
This was my guest book for the shower. I got this beautiful monogram 'S' at Hobby Lobby (can you tell I love that store?!). We ended up having everyone sign the back as they came in with their name and well wish. We used the back so that the couple will still be able to use it as a decoration in their home.
These cute Mr. and Mrs. signs came from Hobby Lobby for 1/2 off. We hung them off the stocking hooks.
I made this wreath for a decoration for the shower, but also as the couple's gift for their new home. (Let me know if you would like to put a custom order in!)
We used these two letters (the couple's first initials) and the flower as a decoration next to the mimosa bar.
Mimosa Bar!
I decorated the brides flute with this cute ribbon. I also cut out vinyl 'S's on my Silhouette Cameo and stuck them on each of the champagne flutes and the orange juice pitchers. They were super easy and actually cut easier than scrapbook paper. They also came off super easy when it was time to clean up.
Gold swirl straws from Hobby Lobby.
For brunch we had a pancake bar.
I got these cute little chalkboard signs at Ross. 6 for $2.00. They had a little stand on the back and were super easy to write on.
The 'S' stickers were left over from apart of the favors (later in the post). We put them on the milk pitcher and the mini milk jars.
These super cute mini milk jars are awesome! They actually came from my Grandma Connie. My great grandpa (her dad) was a milk man up in Montana way back in the day. Grandma let me borrow them and they're actually the real thing instead of a new replicated version. So cool! So first when everyone arrived, we had mimosas and then ate.
When everyone was done eating we played the toilet paper dress game. Earlier in the day we had made little sheets of paper with the name of a character on them. We had Elsa, Anna, and Olaf then Nemo, Dory, and Marlin, and then Nala, Simba, and Zazu. We put one piece of paper inside of everyones name card. When they were done eating we had them grab their paper and they had to find their matches. These were the teams. Then each team got a package of toilet paper and had 15 minutes to make the best dress!
Wrapped Cati pretty tight! She could hardly walk to turn around for the judges (mom and gram).
The back and the veil!
Liz getting prettied up for the other team. She was our most recent bride, she just got married two months ago!!
Bow-making Becky! Seriously, she is amazing at them!
The two brides all ready for the judges. Liz's team even threw in a bouquet!
Cati's veil ended up making her look like a ninja! Such a fun game! Go ninja bride!
The judges just couldn't reach a decision so the girls ended up playing rock paper scissors. Cati's team won and got some super cute key chains!
Gift time!
We loved showering the beautiful bride!
During the gift portion, we had a girl ask the bride a different question about marriage between each of the gifts. Some were what is she most excited about, nervous for, and what are they planning on doing as their first tradition etc.
After the gifts, we had a scavenger hunt! The hunt was for some treasure.. the favors!
Mini brown bags with vinyl 'S's that I made on the cameo.
Inside each bag were some super fun gifts that went along with our theme.
Mini pink moscato champagne
Tissue with each girls first initial
Small jar of pearlized six lets
Mini bath and body works candle. The scent was "sundress" which was also our attire!
The treasure hunt led to this spot under a chair up in gram's sitting room.
Here's a link to the clues that I used for the game.
After the treasure hunt everyone talked for a bit and then headed out.
We had sweet cherries set up by the door with some cute little bags.
Of course we monogrammed them ;)
The beautiful bride-to-be and myself!
Cati, thank you so much for allowing me to be apart of your special day. It was such an honor to be able to throw you such a fun shower. You have truly blossomed into an incredible woman of God and I'm so honored to be your friend. I can't wait to see your and Brandon's newest and biggest adventure yet! Cheers sweet lady!
