A Shower is in the Forecast

My little sister is getting married! 

Bethy, on the off chance you are reading my blog (ha!), stop here to avoid spoiling any surprises.

Not Bethy?  Good!  Continue:

I've been planning her shower even before she was engaged.  That's my idea of a good time- ha ha!  When someone from my work mentioned to me that family members are not supposed to throw the shower because it seems like begging for gifts, I rolled my eyes.  Who makes up these rules??  I want to throw one of my favorite people in the world her bridal shower, dammit! I have basically hogged this planning process and sent her a little package for Valentine's Day to reveal her shower invitation and the theme, just for fun.  Here's what she opened:

Bethany requested that the shower be in early spring because her soon-to-be-sister-in-law moves to Germany soon, and she didn't want her to miss it.  So even though she is getting married in November, we ended up planning a shower for April.  The theme?  April Shower, of course!  (To be extra cheesy, the official theme is An April Shower Brings Wedding Flowers. Six months later, that is.)

The invite:

On the back, I wrote this poem:

Before the Miss will become a Mrs.,

Let's shower her with love and our best wishes!

The forecast calls for a luncheon;

Yes, there's an April shower in sight!

We are so happy for our Bethy,

for she has found her Mr. Right!

The colors are pink and orange for the shower, so I bought a box of corresponding thank you cards and addressed the envelopes to all the guests, to save her time.

I wrapped a lollipop like a dahlia and attached the theme to it:

 I packed it up with pink crinkly stuffing and voila!  Just a little package to get her excited!

 I've been hot gluing pink raindrops from tissue paper clouds and ordering pink watering cans online and finding the perfect umbrella to use as a guestbook (?) and trying to search out orange pinwheels in the shape of flowers.  Let the private Pinterest board action begin!