Heather’s Bachelorette Party

As I sit here at the airport headed home for the weekend I figured I better do some blogging and hopefully get caught up!

Heather’s Bachelorette Bash was about 2 months ago.  I am terrible about blogging lately.  I had so many things going in the last few months.  I am going to try and get caught up on this 4 hour plane ride home.

A lot of planning went into Heather’s Party and I like to think that I came up with most of the ideas…but I was really just following orders from the Bridezilla herself! j/k  Heather informed us that she wanted to have a night out in Portland, have the decorations consist of pink and zebra prints, go to a drag show, and end the night dancing.  We tried to meet all of her demands…I mean request.

We left Olympia at around 11am and headed to Portland.  We got to our hotel around 2pm.  We had two hotel rooms and stuck Heather in one while we decorated the other.

Our night begin with a couple of Jello shots for everyone.

And goodie bags and treats!

A Bachelorette party is not complete without a penis cake.

We had plenty of drinks to wet our whistles.

Caution tape was placed on the door to warn our neighbors.

A party is not complete without a photo station.

Heather loved the room décor and was super excited to get the night started!

Photo station is in full force…

After everyone arrived and got ready we met back up for games and gifts. 

Heather’s other request for the night was for everyone to wear black dresses.  Heather surprised us all with these awesome neon green members only jackets that we all had to wear out for the night!  I am so excited to add this to my wardrobe. :/

After all the gifts were opened we headed downtown in the hotel shuttle for dinner.

We ate at a fun little bar and grill called Hamburger Mary’s.

After dinner we were off to Darcelle’s, the oldest drag show in the states.

Darcelle herself/himself is the oldest drag queen in the states as well and we saw way too much of her this evening!  Her jokes were really old, so no one in the crowd really got them.  At least she made herself laugh!

All of the Brides in the audience were called up on stage and Heather was pumped!  She was asked where she was getting married and she told the crowd Australia!?!?  This was news to all of her bridesmaids!

When the show was over the night was just beginning.  We headed across the street to a night club called Dirty.  We had own booth and had a blast dancing the night away celebrating Heather’s last few days of being single!

I Love a Good Invitation

And I love finding the perfect wording to go on the inside.

She’s made the plans and ordered the cake,
She’s anxious for the vows they'll make.
Help pass the time and shorten the wait
A shower is planned and here is the date...

We were searching online for the right invitation to Heather’s Bridal Shower.  We needed about 75 invitations and we didn’t want to spend an arm and leg on them.  Everything that we were finding were about a $1 a piece…after doing the math we decided to head to Michael’s and see what we could find there.  We came across these invitations and thought that they were perfect and the price made us even more eager to put them in our shopping cart.  We bought two packs (100 invitations) of these invitation for a grand total of $16.00.  We found the wording online and printed these babies out.  

For Heather’s Bachelorette party invites we got a little more creative.  We saw the idea of making the invitation into a corset on pinterest.  We picked up some paper and envelopes at Michael’s and made these fabulous invitations.

Heather requested that the colors for her Bachelorette party be pink and zebra, so we did as we were told by the Bridezilla, and made the invitation pink and zebra.  We used pieces of black and pink cardstock to make the invitation.  We sprayed the black with pink glitter spray paint to give it a more glitzy feel.

It's time for us girls to mix and mingle
These are Heather’s last few weeks of being single
Time is ticking and the bells will soon chime
Let's get crazy while there is still time!

Bachelorette Party & Lingerie Shower

For

Heather Birge

08.18.12

Leaving Olympia at 11A.M.

For Portland

Pack your black cocktail dress and dancing shoes

so we can hit the town before Heather says her final

“I DO”!

Inside the corset we put Heather’s lingerie info for the guest to know what size to get her.

I love the fact that they actually lace up!

I’m super excited about Heather’s Bachelorette weekend!

Heather’s Bridal Shower

In August Heather’s wedding festivities begin with her Bridal Shower.  The Bridesmaid’s came together and threw am awesome shower.  The Maid of Honor won through a raffle the use of this amazing garden in Olympia called Albee’s.  It was such an awesome venue that provided so much and made throwing this shower super easy!

Heather has a total of 9 bridesmaids.  We divided up the different dishes that we needed between all of us.  Most of the girls brought desserts for the dessert table.  They all looked yummy!

When we purchased the invitations at Michael's we didn’t realize that they were actually wedding invitations that came with RSVP cards.  We decided to turn them into recipe cards for guest to write their favorite dishes down on to give to Heather.  Heather needs a little help in the cooking department and these recipes should get her started on the right foot.  We put them in a cute little binder that says, “Heather’s Kitchen” on the cover.

Each Bridesmaid was in charge of decorating a table with flowers and a framed picture of them with Heather.  Everyone had beautiful flowers and all the tables looked fabulous.

All the food was delish and the weather was perfect.

I covered these card board letters that I purchased from Joann’s Fabric with yarn.  I saw this idea on pinterest and loved the idea to make their Monogram.

The garden grounds were breathtaking.  Beautiful flowers and hanging baskets were everywhere.

All of the Bridesmaids/shower planners with the Bride!

I hope Heather enjoyed her shower.  I am so excited to be sharing her special day with her.