Consider yourself showered.

Last June I threw a bridal shower for the bestie who will be getting married this summer. It was intended to be a fabulous outdoor garden party, complete with adorable yellow chevron place settings and day-drinking. Unfortunately, we live in the climatically unpredictable state of Oregon and apparently late June does not guarantee you garden party friendly weather.

So the soirée was moved inside my in-laws house and even though it wasn't what I had originally envisioned, it was still pretty darn cute. if. I. do. say. so. myself. And there was still day-drinking.

I'm a sucker for all things monogrammed.

See, I told you the yellow chevron was fabulous. I couldn't find any table runners that I liked, so I sewed these myself.

 Goodwill find #1: fantastic serving tray.

Mmmmmm dessert. The scrumptious lemon bars (the bride's favorite) were made by my darling friend Lauren. The macaroons were served in Goodwill find #2. And how precious are the raspberries stuffed with chocolate chips served in gold-rimmed teacups (Goodwill find #3)!

The bar! I really should have made both tiers with pink champagne punch because, let's be honest, everyone loves day-drinking. Hindsight is 20-20.

This was the color inspiration for the whole shindig. The bestie's colors for the wedding are marigold yellow and slate grey, so I thought this would be a fun, Spring twist on things. Bonus: we are going to reuse the empty Izze bottles as bud vases at her wedding reception by spray painting them white and filling them with crespedia. Genius. We know.

Nothing like a little food coloring to spruce up some mason jars!

Guests were asked to bring a recipe for the bride to the shower (the recipe cards were actually refashioned RSVP cards from a wedding invitation template that I used for the bridal shower invitations). They also left advice for the bride on little pink stationary in this fantastic silver catchall. Goodwill find #4.

Serious haul, right?

These "Thank You" book marks we supposed to be at each place setting before the rain put a stop to that. Inspired by the bestie's love of books.

Despite the downpour, looks like a happy bride/bestie to me. Mission accomplished.

Photography courtesy of the wonderfully talented Kaela Lee at Kaela.Mey Photography!

They grow up so fast.

So the hubs-to-be turned 24 yesterday! I will feel much less like a cradle robber for the next few months until my birthday. Here's a peek at part of what I got him:

This will be a perfect start to our bar at the new house! I'm not going to lie though, the bottle of St. Germain was a totally self-serving present seeing as I fully intend to use that beautiful bottle as a decanter. The end goal is this:

Now we just need to actually move into the new house. Maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself?