This past weekend was my dear friend Marsha's bridal shower. Marsha and I met at USC while we were both getting our Master's in Occupational Therapy. We became good friends at school (along with Onelia, Sarah, and Jamie) and have continued to be close throughout the 6 years we've known each other. I was honored to be asked to be a bridesmaid in her wedding and thrilled to help throw her a memorable bridal shower. Sarah (the other bridesmaid) was gracious enough to host the party at her house in Torrance.
I woke up at 6am to get flowers at the downtown flower mart, which I always love going to. They had some beautiful green dendrobium orchids, green pom poms, and green astor. The astor was a last minute buy which I'm glad I did because I had just the right amount of flowers for about 9 vases. Sarah trekked over the farmer's market by her house (the one in my previous blogs) and picked up the kettlecorn for our favors, breakfast for us (yum!), and some extra flowers for the bathroom and entrance. She picked some nice mums and green hydrangea. I always think flowers spruce up a party and add to the color theme. If you haven't noticed in the pictures, the theme was brown and green....modern versus nature as Marsha describes it.
The guests arrived around 1pm and we enjoyed lunch together. Lani picked up our sushi order from Noshi. Our shower was centered around all things that Marsha loves...sushi being at the top of her list. The california roll from Noshi was very good....they use real crab and not Krab in their rolls which made it taste so much better. Sarah grilled up the Kalbi which was nice and seasoned with just the right amount of fattyness.
The games were organized by Lani and they were so much fun. Lani really put a lot of thought and work into the games. We played bridal bingo and then bridal boggle. It was funny because Marsha and I use to play boggle in grad school during class. She had this mini keychain boggle which we would pass back and forth until someone couldn't come up with a word. So of course Marsh, being the master at boggle, killed everyone at the shower with a whopping 72 words. I think I had like 22.
All in all it was a great shower and fabulous effort put forth by bridal team Marsha! Thanks ladies for all your help.
I woke up at 6am to get flowers at the downtown flower mart, which I always love going to. They had some beautiful green dendrobium orchids, green pom poms, and green astor. The astor was a last minute buy which I'm glad I did because I had just the right amount of flowers for about 9 vases. Sarah trekked over the farmer's market by her house (the one in my previous blogs) and picked up the kettlecorn for our favors, breakfast for us (yum!), and some extra flowers for the bathroom and entrance. She picked some nice mums and green hydrangea. I always think flowers spruce up a party and add to the color theme. If you haven't noticed in the pictures, the theme was brown and green....modern versus nature as Marsha describes it.
The guests arrived around 1pm and we enjoyed lunch together. Lani picked up our sushi order from Noshi. Our shower was centered around all things that Marsha loves...sushi being at the top of her list. The california roll from Noshi was very good....they use real crab and not Krab in their rolls which made it taste so much better. Sarah grilled up the Kalbi which was nice and seasoned with just the right amount of fattyness.
The games were organized by Lani and they were so much fun. Lani really put a lot of thought and work into the games. We played bridal bingo and then bridal boggle. It was funny because Marsha and I use to play boggle in grad school during class. She had this mini keychain boggle which we would pass back and forth until someone couldn't come up with a word. So of course Marsh, being the master at boggle, killed everyone at the shower with a whopping 72 words. I think I had like 22.
All in all it was a great shower and fabulous effort put forth by bridal team Marsha! Thanks ladies for all your help.
The Lovely Bride to Be in her special chair
Orchid Centerpiece
Green Pom Pom Centerpiece
Astor Centerpiece
The Spread: California Roll, Spicy Tuna Roll, Sweet Eel Roll, Salmon Sushi, Yellowtail Sushi, Vegetable Platter, Crab Wontons, Spinach Dip, White Bean Dip, Chapchae, Kalbi, Ramen Cabbage Salad
My attempt at Dessert Sushi
The Maid of Honor Lani and Marsha: Lani made the rehearsal bouquet out of ribbon and tissue paper
Lani playing Bridal Bingo
Marsha playing Bridal Boggle
The Kettlecorn Popcorn Favors
Marsha with her XL popcorn favor
Me and Marsha 
Beautiful centerpieces! I especially loved the pom pom centerpieces... Great job as usual Queen Hostess!
ReplyDeletethis is too weird....i knew marsha and lani in college...i used to go to lani's house all the time!!! OMG that's too hillarious =o)
ReplyDeleteYour Bridal Boggle is so cute! Thinking about doing it for my friends upcoming shower... can you share your worksheets? Thanks!
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