Celebrate Celebrate Celebrate > Fabulous Rebel Housewife Bridal Shower

Our Rebel Housewives Bridal Shower turned out great, and we've finally recovered enough to share the goods with all of you!  

We stayed true to our "Rebel to a Housewife" theme from the shower invitation, and incorporated it into our decor. Angela's house was all decked out with vintage, retro, and graphic pop art touches. It was pretty and funky all at the same time, kinda like our cute bride to be!  


In fact, we had so many fabulous pictures from the Rebel Housewives Bridal Shower that I don't know where to start - so I'm going to start at the front door!  

We greeted our guests with this welcome sign.  We used a vintage dress form that came from my Mama.  I covered the form up with some kids t-shirts and then dressed it up and gave it some bling using some dollar store flowers, jewelry, a belt from Mr. 2Wicked and a adorable vintage apron that Miss Angela later gifted to the bride-to-be.

Check out the details.  The bodice was made using three different kinds of flowers:  daisies, small red button flowers for the daisy center, and hydrangea petals around the top of the bodice.  The top was crowned, literally, on top of a giant black daisy. (Who knew you could find black silk flowers?)  The vintage apron had red birds appliqued on it, the perfect apron for the Future Mrs. 2Wicked.

After the guests had arrived we put the crown and apron on our future bride for the shower festivities.  

We continued the vintage apron theme on the gift table.  We used three vintage aprons across the front of the gift table.  I'm partial to that poodle apron and am keeping it because it is tooooo cute.  I had one of the pictures from the shower invitation made into poster size and framed.

That's as far as I can take you today, but stay tuned for the tablescapes, favors, menu and games.  


~ Laurie

Celebrate Celebrate Celebrate > We're Having A Party!

We're so excited - we're having a party!  There's nothing we like better than parties.  There's party food, party drinks, party decorations, party favors, and party clothes and party shoooooes.  We like all parts of the party.  Ultimately the party starts with the invite, (well, technically it starts with the reason for the party)  and that's what this post is all about - the invite.


You know that we are having a wedding in our family.  Mr. 2Wicked will soon have a wife!    The Future Mrs. 2Wicked (FM2W) is having a bridal shower, actually she is having two showers!  What a lucky girl! You might not know this about the Glossy Flossy's but we have a large family made up of Grandmas, Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles and cousins, so we like to have a family bridal shower (that way we don't overwhelm the bride's friends with our large, loud, and unruly clan.)  The other reason we like to have family bridal and baby showers is so the two families can get to know each other a little bit more (and the other family can see first hand what their loved one is getting into.)  We also like to include close family friends cause we all know some of our friends are like family!


Okay, enough  about that and back to the invite.  We like to design and personalize our party and our invite around the person that we're having it for.  Miss Angela came up with the concept of "Rebel Housewife" - you know how I loooovvee the Housewives of Beverly Hills - and we were off to party land.


Take note everyone with Facebook accounts:  I started by taking three pictures of FM2W off her Facebook page.  I knew she liked these pictures because she put them on her page.  I made it into a large invite so it would fit into a legal size envelope and use a regular stamp to mail because we're cheap frugal like that. 


The invite looked okay but the photos needed a little pizazz because we're not about "okay", we're about "fantastic."  Miss Angela found this great site called BeFunky.com.  She took the photos and gave them some pop art pizazz.  If you haven't seen this site, be sure to check it out.  It is very easy to use and FREE!


Okay, drum roll please.  This is how what the photos looked like:

Just kidding!  Were you scared?  Okay for real this time - this is what the front of the invite looked like:

The back had all the details and we used a little bling with some self stick gems in the middle of all the stars.

Watch for the photos and details from the bridal shower.

~Laurie