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Wedding Shower Weekend

The first weekend of May was packed full of wedding related activities. On Saturday, I attended the shower of my childhood best friend, Jenice. The shower was at the Worthington Inn. One of my gifts to Jenice was a storybook of our childhood memories together. I had fun gathering the photos at my parent’s house and remembering the funny things we did as kids. I was really excited to give her the gift and of course once she opened and looked through the book, it was passed around the entire room for all to see. Jenice’s future mother in-law loved seeing photos of her as a little girl. To see the book I made Jenice (and to see hilarious photos of both of us as little girls, click the image below).
 Jenice_Heritage_Makers_Book

I made Jenice’s book following a really simple 4-step formula that anyone can copy for their own project:

  1. First, I spent an hour or so of gathering the old photos that I wanted from my parent’s house.
  2. Next, I scanned the photos with my high speed scanner and wrote out my favorite Mary & Jenice memories to include in the book. [Interested in having some of your photos scanned? Check out my scanning services!]
  3. Then, I searched the Heritage Makers template gallery to fine a template to use (this was my starting template: http://heritagemakers.com/index.cfm?event=projectBrowse&projectID=9b251d5e-70f5-4269-b242-eb4ad6753850&productId=1)
  4. Finally, I spent 2-3 hours dropping the scanned photos in the template, modified the template slightly and added my personal notes.

Jenice’s book was by far one of the favorite projects I’ve made so far with Heritage Makers. It  gave me the opportunity to look back and remember so many fun things we did together!

On Sunday of that weekend, May 3, was my first bridal shower with Nick’s side of the family. It was a very nice shower and I enjoyed it! Here are some photos:

The women in Nick's Family (plus Nick)

The women in Nick's Family (plus Nick)

The hosts - Phyllis and Wanda (THANK YOU!!!)

The hosts - Phyllis and Wanda (THANK YOU!!!)

Princess Hannah, Lindsay, Me, Patty and Rosie

Princess Hannah, Lindsay, Me, Patty and Rosie

 

Two more showers to go…. Next weekend is my family shower and my I’ll get to finally see my third bridesmaid, Christine! She’s hosting the shower and here’s a peek at the super cute invitations she created:

invite photo

Here is what I’ve been reading lately on weddings:

From here on forward, I am going to post weekly until the wedding…. Things are starting to happen everyday and I want to capture them!! (This morning I had a trial run of my wedding hair and so as I write this I’m sitting here with my hair all curlyand wearing my glittery headband — I feel oh so cute!).

Next up: Photos of the painted upstairs of the condo!

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