You're going to invite a whole bunch of ladies to the house, they're going to bring gifts, and they'll watch us open them. And then we eat?
Interesting...
That's right, last weekend Kelly and I trekked down to Red Bud for our first WEDDING SHOWER. (I kept joking that we should have told the aunts it was a wedding AND BABY shower, just to see their faces! Ha!)
I've never been to one of these before, so the whole "process" was fairly foreign to me. But all in all, it was a good time! It was great seeing family and friends...many who I haven't seen since high school. And, wow...great gifts, too! Score!
Thanks, Mom, Dad, and Sis (and everyone else) for the great weekend!
Interesting...
That's right, last weekend Kelly and I trekked down to Red Bud for our first WEDDING SHOWER. (I kept joking that we should have told the aunts it was a wedding AND BABY shower, just to see their faces! Ha!)
I've never been to one of these before, so the whole "process" was fairly foreign to me. But all in all, it was a good time! It was great seeing family and friends...many who I haven't seen since high school. And, wow...great gifts, too! Score!
Thanks, Mom, Dad, and Sis (and everyone else) for the great weekend!
7 comments:
Wow! I'm just impressed that you got to be a part of it! Usually, the groom-to-be is booted out of the house and only the blushing bride gets to enjoy all the gifts and hooplah -- a tradition which is rather odd, really!
Yeah I know... the main reason I came was because all the invites were Red Bud friends & family--many of whom haven't seen me in years, much less met the bride-to-be. So Kelly probably only knew four of the thirty people there! See needed extra protection.
So that was my first--and probably last--shower. Thank goodness...I'm not sure if I could handle THAT MANY WOMEN IN ONE ROOM ever again!
I thought you might be a little interested in the history of the bridal shower.....FYI
The bridal shower may seem like a harmless ritual. It is, in its simplest form, the gathering of people in a home. It ought to only require a small spread of hors-d'oeuvres and a chair (you know, that piece of furniture shaped like a lower-case "h")positioned to honor the bride. In reality, however, the bridal shower becomes a fray -- a myriad of people looking to be entertained, fed, and processed out the other side, feeling confident that their time was worth the price of admission.
The bridal shower custom traditionally arose as a means to provide poor women with a dowry. Friends would gather with the hopeful bride and "shower" her with money and goods, thereby enabling the dowryless woman to marry. In the 21st century, however, the tradition has evolved somewhat from its original intentions. While it may seem that maxing out your credit card to supply the bride with a pizza stone and Tupperware will not in any way affect her marital potential, this is simply not the point.
Though the casual observer may find that there is little point to the shower other than the acquisition of additional gifts, it is, apparently, a necessary rite for most brides
As always, M-I-L
(By the way, did Kelly tell you I have an affliction that is the joy of every son-in-law? Laryngitis!)
1. Quite the contrary, throwing in a pizza stone with Kelly raises her marital potential at least 425 degrees.
2. An affliction, huh?! I wrote a short essay about afflictions. I should send it to you. You can "tell" me what you think this weekend. I'll make sure I pack a whiteboard.
You should ask Kelly about her experience with a pizza stone (they go in the oven NOT on top of the stove), so I'm thinking it might actually be detriment.
I'm really quite sure that if I rest my voice for the next couple of days, it will be in great shape by Friday. (How I'm going to do that when I have back-to-back training sessions scheduled for Wednesday & Thursday is beyond me, but I'm sure going to try to be able to talk by Friday afternoon.)
You really don't need to pack a whiteboard, we can use the one on the fridge. I know how you like to pack "light"...how many bags did you have with you for Christmas break?
Let's try this again...
So you haven't blogged in over 2 weeks and I am wondering if you are growing tired of blogging. I know you have stuff to blog about...Easter, Kant, your amazing friends (J1 and J2)...you are letting us down!!
:-)
That is an awfully strange picture... I hope that you will run across someone who can blog with some more interesting ones.
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