My Second Bridal Shower

Or technically this one was a "Couple's Shower".

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This fantastically, fun shower was thrown by my 'soon-to-be' sister-in-law! It was quite different than the first shower, definitely not better or worse, just different...

My First Bridal Shower

...Ever!

And I don't just mean the first one that was thrown for me.

I have never been to a bridal shower before. (I have been to a few baby showers though, kind of odd..)

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But this shower was for me! :)

The First Dress Arrives!!!

So we went over to BM JB's house today to watch the football game. (I am lying, I went to drink wine, eat and talk!) But I also got to see her bridesmaid dress!!!!! I was so uber excited because went we went to Alfred Angelo to pick out dress (which you can read about here) they didn't have a single dress in the charcoal color, so I was pretty much ordering these blind (almost, they did have a 3" square piece of charcoal fabric for me to look at).

Here is the dress that BM JB tried on:

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It was very hard to imagine what it was going to look like when it was in the correct color, but I no longer have to  try and imagine what it looks like. Because... (Drum-roll, please)........ Here it is.......

It wasn't what I'd imagined, but it was a success...continued.

Here is the beginning of our bridesmaid dress shopping experience.

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A few minutes after we got to the store, BM J arrived and we got her a catalog book to look at too.

It wasn't what I'd imagined, but it was a success.

Yesterday was definitely a success, even though it wasn't *perfect*.

I'll just go down the list of event/thing-that-happened:
BM J's friend's water broke at 2:00 AM. So she'd been up all night then at the hospital all morning, until she had to leave to go to the funeral at Noon.

BM E came with her mom to my parent's house to meet us (which I did not know was going to happen, even though I'd invited her I still hadn't heard a definite yes or no) so while I was upstairs getting ready she and her mom were greeted by this:

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Its the communication thing...again

So, if you read my previous post about the communication problems I was having with my BMs you would understand when I tell you that I am kind of frustrated/nervous/slightly upset that one of the big deals of wedding planning might not go the way I had originally pictured in my head.

This is how I'd imagined the perfect shopping experience would go:

1. Fun & Shopping

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Communication is key...or so I thought..

I seem to be having some "issues" with communicating with my girls, I am not expecting everyone to be as super-excited as I am about the wedding, but a little feedback would help! 

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My first choice for communicating with my girls has been through e-mail. (Simply because that is what my cousin used when I was MOH for her wedding and it worked really well.) I guess my girls just don't know their way around an 'inbox'. Ugh, I am not trying to nag, or complain... okay maybe I am. But it isn't like they've been receiving e-mail overload.

Where is my last maid??

...Bridesmaid that is! 

I sent out my Will You Be My Bridesmaid? cards on Tuesday and BM E text me on Wednesday: 

Hanner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I was just proposed to! Yes! I will be your bridesmaid! U dont know how happy I am and so touched that you asked :)

Haha! I love her, and seeing that made all the endless hours of work that it took to make the cards completely worth it! 

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Yes, I was one happy bride-to-be!

How I asked... Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

After looking around for weeks trying to find different ideas of ways to ask my girls of Honor formally and my two Bridesmaids for the first time, I finally found something I loved:

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Combined with:

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Will you be my Bridesmaid?

After being engaged for 9 months and only having 7 months left until the wedding I finally decided I should ask my bridal party to be in my bridal party.

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