Final Single Days

Bachelorette party was last night, we had a blast, it was awesome! I had my old roommates, Mallory, Lynne and Maria come, as well as Cassie and Cathy. Emma came up and Melissa, Brian’s sister, as well as Lisa and Joni, my friend from work. Emma planned it all from NJ and drove in yesterday. It was quite a whirlwind, but a lot of fun. We had a 10 person limo and drove up to Rock Bottom Brewery in Cleveland, having drinks and snacks on the way. I had a boa, sash and button that I had to put on and beads, and the other girls made sashes out of “caution” tape that said Wild Girls on it and had beads. We had scrumptious appetizers and dinner (sampler plate and nachos, and for dinner I had macaroni and cheese). Dinner, in retrospect, I should’ve not had so much pasta. I was tipsy when we got there and sober when we left! But it was still fun.

We went downstairs after that to Howl at the Moon, a piano bar. That was great. I then had to get decked out in the rest of my outfit, consisting of a t-shirt and veil. The t-shirt was one of the ones to draw on, which I didn’t really get people to sign but that’s okay, I’ll cut it out and scrapbook it! When we first got there there weren’t many people there yet, so we got a lot of our songs played. They had them pianists play Raining Men and brought me up on stage. Lucky for me Cathy was willing to join me in embarassment (rather, I was embarassed, she was enjoying the limelight).

They brought all us bachelorettes up again later to do the chicken dance, I think there were four-five of us.

Brian built us a little fire up by the house and Lynne, Cathy and I had s’mores with Brian and then we hit the sack. Emma crashed out early after her seven hour drive, and she was up and gone by the time we were up in the morning. It was so nice of her to come out 7 hrs on her birthday for me, just to turn around and do it again this weekend for the wedding; I was impressed 🙂 I think I’m almost ready for the wedding, the ceremony programs were a pain and I had my lady friends at work help me out putting some together on Friday and finished them on Saturday. I think 9+ hours were spent on them total, it was crazy. So I have to make a few more favors and another guestbook/table number, and clean the mirrors for the centerpieces. Other than that, it’s just getting the details straight like getting ribbon to the cake lady. Only 6 days left, craziness.

Write thank yous for work bridal shower
Rehearsal dinner
Thank you tags attached to favors
Pick up altered dress
Make toss bouquet
Finish guest book table numbers
Centerpieces! Clean mirrors for centerpieces
Finalize DJ stuff
Finalize cake details
Finalize flower details
Finalize ceremony details Write love letter to Brian for the wine box ceremony!
Finalize food
Finalize photographer details (must take photos, etc. and just touch base)
Create day-of timeline
Schedule make up and hair and other salon stuffs
Create ceremony programs
Finalize ceremony music
Seating arrangement
Create placecards for seating
Buy gifts for parents, both sets I think we’re just getting them photo books after the fact.
Buy gift for Brian
Finish bridesmaid/groomsmen gifts
Pay for all the stuff (payment due dates are all coming up)

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3 Comments

  1. I agree- pasta was a poor choice for a night of drinking. if I had to do it again, I would have chosen a different food- I did not get nearly as drunk as I needed to!
    and ditto on the sweaty guys- it was funny to watch, but I freaked out when the one tried to touch me because he was so gross. make sure you tell brian to wear deodorant to the wedding. and clothes.

  2. I wish i could’ve gone to you bachelorette party! I love piano bars, they’re so much fun!
    Will you be in Dayton around the 4th of July or still on you honeymoon?

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