Saturday afternoon I through a wedding shower for my very best friend Julie Tukuafu! As her maid of honor, it was my job to make the shower very special for her. I know this is an exciting time in Julie's life and I want to let her know how happy I am that her and B.J are getting married. I witnessed when these two met, had their first kiss, started dating and when they got engaged. I am excited for these two love birds to start their life together. Congrats to the both of them!
"We are all wired to find love. And when we meet someone who radiates it, we naturally crave their company"
-Kari Kampakis
For Julie's shower we followed the traditional "wedding shower agenda". We had a yummy lunch, played a game and opened gifts. The lunch by the way was amazing and I feel like I can say that because I am not the one who made the food. My mom is an amazing cook. What makes her so great is that she comes up with her own recipe ideas. If you haven't ever had a warm turkey sandwich on a pretzel roll then I highly recommend you try it. My mom also made a killer salad with butternut squash, beets, red onions, edamame, spinach and sunflower seeds. We were all going crazy over it.
The dessert.... well I can't take credit for that either. I bought cadbury eggs, sugar cookies from Old Griss Mill and an assortment of cookies from Paradise Bakery. I didn't see the point in making my own cookies because I am moving out of my house soon. I didn't want to by a bunch of ingredients I would just use once and eventually have to throw away.
However, even though the treats were store bought I am absolutely obsessed with Paradise Bakery's cookies. My favorites:
peanut butter chocolate chip, the black diamond and their coconut chocolate chip cookie.
Julie's good friend growing up, Emily Cozzens, made these adorable party favors.
"B.J whisked Julie off her feet and now they are a perfect mix"
The Bride to Be!!!
The game we played was a lot of fun. I wrote down questions and had B.J answer them. Then, when the girls were giving Julie her gift they asked her the questions. We wanted to see if Julie's and B.J's answer's matched up. I am not going to lie. The two of them did a really good job. It seems like they know each other pretty well.
