Allison's Wedding Shower

Last Saturday I helped host my little cousin Allison's wedding shower.  I can't believe she is old enough to be married--and she completely is--but to me she will always be my "little" cousin. 

 Isn't she gorgeous??  She got so many great gifts!  I loved seeing all the new (super cool) kitchen gadgets. 

She got these super cute glasses with Razorbacks etched into the side.  You can see the gift I gave her here. Now onto the details!

She had wanted to have a monogram shower but since this was her only shower we knew we couldn't do a monogram only shower or she wouldn't have been able to get anything from her registry.  So with this in mind we tried to put as many monograms in the shower decoration as possible.  As guests come in they were greeted by this on the door.  I saw this on pinterest.  It is just a frame, yarn, and a chipboard letter painted black.  Her colors are black and white with green hydrangeas. 

 This was the guest table.  It had pictures of the happy couple, flowers in a mongrammed vase, and advice cards for guests to write advice for them.

Here is an upclose picture of the monogrammed vase that we found at Hobby Lobby on clearance!  Score!!

 There were three tables and each one was set up like this--each table had a different picture of them on it.

 The food spread!  We had a brunch shower so the food included spinach dip with bread and carrots to dip, fruit kabobs and fruit dip, chicken salad sandwiches on cranberry bread from a local bread company, mini muffins (courtesy of Little Debbie), mini quiches, pigs-in-a-blanket, and cake.

We found these super cute name-plate frames at the dollar spot at Target and used them for food labels.

 We painted their monogram letters and hung them from the center of the food table.

 Drinks--bottled water, cappuccino punch, raspberry lemonade, and sweet tea

 We found these monogram bottle labels at Hobby Lobby.  They were 50% off so they were only like $2.50 and were such a cute touch. 

 The cake from Rick's Bakery.  One layer was vanilla and the other layer was vanilla with raspberry filling.  Shortly after this picture was taken I accidently smudged part of it while taking pictures.  Whoops! 

 Aunt Cindy (or Ci-Ci as she is know to the kids and also Allison's mom), Allison, and Allison's soon-to-be Mother-in-law Shelly. 

The hostesses--Me, Aunt Theresa, Allison, Jessica, and Rachel.  My cousin Michelle was also a hostess but she is out of the country on military duty so she couldn't be there that day.  We missed her VERY much.  All-in-all I think Allison had a great shower and I am so excited for her and Casey as they start their married life!