Photo by Amy Bunim
You may recall I recently posted a blog about the amazing Vintage Wedding Shower my mother and cousin threw for us. What I didnt mention was that the shower took place in Southern California which was a little too far for most of our Vegas friends to travel twice in a two month period (the wedding is in SoCal as well). So the shower ended up being mostly family, which dont get me wrong was toattly fantastic in every way. Anyways a few months back Joey’s Maid of Honor Lindsay mentioned to us that her mother was flying into town during September and wanted to take us out for a celebratory dinner. We of course were happy to agree! … Then we forgot it was happening.
So on September 9th, Lindsay calls me and informs me that we are gonna meet up at her house for dinner on the 11th at 6pm. Naturally having forgotten about the whole thing, I hadnt requested it off work and was of COURSE working at that time. But she pressed that her mom was really looking forward to it, and they had already made reservations so she asked if I could switch shifts. Never one to let a friend or a friends mother down, I frantically made calls and switched shifts till I was finally able to get everything lined up. Now when I think of how close it all came to not lining up, I cant help but think how lucky I am it all worked out!
So Joey came and picked me up from work and we drove over to Lindsay and Kelley’s (one of Joe’s other groomsmaids) house, once we walked through the door we were greeted with loads of hugs and shouts and surprises from a large group of our friends hiding in the kitchen.
Our Officant Michelle and I (Post Surprise Obviously)
The most fun thing about this was it was like a never ending parade of faces your always happy to see but werent nessicarily expecting to see including my groomsmaid Lara who flew all the way down from Seattle for the occasion.
Our Bestie and Co-Surprise Party Planner Lara
Im still not sure who exactly did what since it seemed like a whole community of our friends pooled together to make this happen for us. But the house was adorned with loads of Halloween decorations, delicious foods, Cold Beer, Champange, Balloons, dogs in tiaras (long story), and… two large penis shaped cakes.
Oh my!
Yes, thats right. Our friend Amy is a fantastic baker and had gone and made us two very large erotic pastries. When asked why there were two cakes Amy gave the simpliest and most logical answer “Well there are two of them”. Makes sense.
Joey... doesnt mess around when it comes to champange
They played wonderful music that we both love, and had a champange toast in our honor, which was toattly awesome.
It was an complete and total surprise, and further proves how incredible our friends are. Everyone commented on how bummed they were that they didnt get to make it out for the California shower so this was the next best thing. For us it was a moving gesture of support and generosity and made us feel so so so loved.
Very awesome! So great to be so loved!
We were cracking up over some boobie cake pans we found recently thinking they’d be perfect for our bachelorette parties! lol
What caring friends you both have :)
You are hands down my favorite couple here. I always look forward to reading your wedding preparations because they are so funny (the way they were told).