Dara's wedding shower

Saturday we had a wedding shower for Dara at our house. Aisling was the hostess and she arranged the food and the games. We had it "catered" by L&L Hawaiian Barbeque, Dara's favorite, and Nan brought a tiramisu and a chocolate cake.

The turnout was good, a lot of Dara's future inlaws came. We ate and mingled and then Aisling started the games. I wasn't that enthused at the thought of some of the games, but I have to admit that Aisling was totally right, they were a big hit. The first game involved breaking into two teams and using garbage bags, paper towels and grocery store bags to create wedding dresses. The two teams were really competitive. The team Aisling was on went all-out with the paper towel-train and ruffle. The other team made a veil out of a bag from Luckys. Another popular game was the underwear game. Aisling and I had bought several pairs of plain white cotton underwear, which we distributed during the shower. Then all the guests used markers and scissors to decorate the underwear as Dara's honeymoon underwear. Then Dara had to model them for us. I have never seen a group of women get so quiet as they did when they were decorating those underwear! The winning pair were decorated with prison bars. We also played games that involved checking out what was in everyone's purse. Nan had the most unusual item, a sand dollar. We also had a game where we tried to identify various spices, just by a smelling and looking.

We then had gifts. She got really nice gifts, various household items including sheet sets and a coffee pot. However, Victoria, Zach's mom, had a very elaborate presentation of several outfits for various moments in marriage, including the Donna Reed and the combat outfit. It was really cute!

Photos of the shower are posted here.