Debbie's Bridal Shower

(wooh, wooh!)

Debbie and Chris are getting married April 12 after a short "official" engagement. Debbie's been living with her parents, and Chris has been living in a less-than-well-stocked bachelor pad, so--completely beside the fact that we love Debbie (okay, and Chris, that foreigner, too) and are thrilled to help her celebrate, they seemed the perfect pair to shower with gifts in anticipation of their wedding.

On Sunday, March 2nd we had a shower for Debbie--who, not too surprisingly, arrived 38 minutes late. Belatedly, we realized we should have had a pool for the bride's arrival time and given a prize for the person who best guessed it. That's okay, though, because everyone was eating happily by the time she finally showed up.

Menu:

• Guacamole and tortilla chips
• Blue cheese pate and crackers
• Individual woven bacon cups with Cobb salads
• Individual ramekins of blue cheese and chive mashed potatoes
• Deep-fried avocado slices
• Sparkling raspberry-lime punch
• Decorate-your-own sugar cookies in the shape of hearts, wedding dresses, engagement rings, and bride-and-groom cookie people
• Make-your-own sundaes with six flavors of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, hot fudge, caramel sauce, mixed fresh berries, chocolate covered nuts, and brownie petit fours

Other highlights:

• Wedding-themed trivia game (see the movie half-time round here and the answer key here)
• Gift opening with gift Bingo (especially lots of useful kitchen items, some nice bath stuff, a few pretty lingerie sets, and of course the obligatory sex manuel--the last one from Liwen!)
• Debbie's bridal accessories: a trucker hat that read "Bride '08" and a bubble wrap shawl (she's not quite the tiara-type of woman, and she really loves bubble wrap)
• Ruthie's lovely ribbon bouquet for Debbie to use at her wedding rehearsal (see below right)
• A decorative, yet functional "sheet cake" (see below left--actually a tiered "cake" made out of a new set of sheets for Debbie and Chris's as-yet-unpurchased king-sized bed)

Memorable quotes from Debbie:

• "Pop me! You know you want to!" (totally straight-faced, to people hugging her, about her bubble wrap)
• "Uh, I don't know--sun tan lotion, books, socks. . ." (to people asking her what gifts she thought she'd get today. Really? Socks? No.)
• "Wow, this is so heavy I could kill someone with it and cut them up on it afterward!" (after receiving a beautiful heavy-duty wooden cutting board)

The only downspot of the day was the parking ticket Debbie got at a quarter to five for parking mid-street past the legal hours on Columbus (they either end at 4:00 or 4:30 on Sundays, and Debbie's car was the loneliest car on the block at that point, sadly).

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