Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Wedding Showers

Jessica and Melissa accompanied me Up North to Bemidji a few weeks ago for a sweet little Apron/Julia Child themed wedding shower at my mom's house. We went up a day early and helped her cut out the pennants for the reception decorations.

First, we ironed on some stiffener to make the pennants hang nicely (they will only be seen on one side). I had bought some fun Amy Butler and Anna Maria Horner prints in apple green and plum.



Then, Mom marked out all the triangles. Earlier, we had done a little math to determine that for every foot of length we would do about a foot and a half of swag. I knew we needed 100' of length, so that meant we needed 150' of pennants and ribbon! I had 6 yards of fabric. We decided on 4x6 triangles, so 3 pennants would make a foot, so 150'*3=450 pennants.

Really, we can get 6 pennants per foot because we could double them with the left over space. 3 feet in a yard times 6 is 18 pennants per yard across. Multiply that by repeating the process down the fabric depending on length and we figured one yard could make 108 pennants. We'd need about 4.5 yards of fabric and 6 yards would be plenty.



Then there was the cutting and cutting and cutting.


(Picture cutesy of Jessica)

They turned out just how I imagined.

(Picture cutesy of Jessica)

That evening, as Jess put it, "We did a good job of pretending to be 21 year olds and drinking combats at Keg." Combats - I had totally forgotten about them! But first we sat at our old table at 209 and I played lots of songs on the Juke Box, which the table behind us kept singing along too!


I couldn't get them to dance with me, yet. (Picture cutesy of Jessica)

We had a great sweaty time.

Sunday afternoon we had a little backyard garden party.

We pinned my Grandma Hutchinson's vintage aprons around the gift table. See the "C" she embroidered on the blue one.



Look at Dad's beautiful Gladiolas that Mom has so artfully arranged. Someday maybe I'll do this too.

Here I am in my new apron. Supercute.

Thanks to Jess for all her help.


Then, the next weekend we did it all again at Jess's house in Blaine. Somehow, I don't have very many pictures of this, but thankfully Jess and my mom got a few. It was equally fun and delicious and I got to meet some of the Bayerls that I didn't know. Mom came too!



P.S. after a few fittings the dress is so close to being done! I think just a bustle, and a little more bust tuck (damn).