Marriage Monday: A Shower Fit for Two

A wedding shower, you pervs!

Rather than having a traditional, ladies only bridal shower, when my cousin offered to throw me a party I suggested we could have a couples shower so that the muscle man could meet all the family, since my extended family rarely gets together for holidays any more. I was so excited to be able to get to see everyone, since I know a lot of them won't be able to make the 4 hour drive to Alabama for the wedding. (My family is from Mississippi, and for the most part aside from my brother, myself, and a few extended-extended relatives, have stayed there as well) And the muscle man's mom, granny, and a few family friends even drove over for it, I was super excited to have them there! Rounding out the party were my parent's friends, people they grew up with, worked with, and hang out with now, which was fun too because many of them I haven't seen in so long! (lots of 'I remember when you were this tall' type comments haha)

We were surrounded by loads of family, and that to me was the best part of the whole shower! I really hated birthday parties growing up because you were expected to open your gifts in front of everyone and show off this stuff people had bought you, I thought it was so self-centered! So the whole 'open your wedding gifts now' part of the shower, I totally could have done without... Nevertheless, I'm so overwhelmed with the wonderful things we received, and as I'm writing out these thank you notes I thought I'd post a few pics from the shower for the internets to see! My mom took over the camera work, I kept my camera out of sight for the event, it's way easier than having to explain to people what I'm doing and why I'm taking so many self-portraits haha! And we have loads of shots of me and the muscle man hanging out with everyone, but I do maintain some private parts of my life, so only silly pictures of me and the muscle man for this one =)

So yes, that's a bug zapper in the middle... And yeah, it was on our registry... Because we're white trash like that! ( and we live in a place where we seriously need one! So many bugs around here!) And I have to point out the knife block my brother got us (top right) because this thing is awesome! I don't often pimp products, but it's a Kapoosh Universal block, and you can put anything with a point in it, how awesome! As for the negligee(bottom left), the muscle man had to open that one after he got a little too curious when I was unwrapping it... That's the last time he'll ask 'what is that' when I'm opening a gift again, that's for sure! He was a great sport about it though =D

We got a couple of gifts we're definitely going to be using at the wedding, including the gorgeous 'disco ball' crystal bowl in the center row, and the bag in the photo beside it! It is so cute, and has 'mr.&mrs.'  on it, I hate to cut it up but I'm totally using it to decorate at the reception somewhere! And that little splash of red in the bottom corner, that's only a portion of the kitchen in a box one of my parent's friends gifted us! Not knocking my inherited dishware that I've had for years, but I'm so glad I have stuff of my own now! We're going to have an amazingly gorgeous house with all the wonderful things we got! New bedding, household items, kitchenwares... Again, we're both just so overwhelmed with how generous and thoughtful everyone was!

And I have to show off these hilariously wonderful shots, even though my muscle man is gonna kill me =P (he may or may not have needed a little liquid courage to relax around so many new people scrutinizing him haha, and we don't drink often... As for my face, yeah I have no excuse for that one... but it made me laugh when I saw both of us with such bizarre looks)