Yesterday was a day of running errands and hanging out with my mom in the afternoon. We watched “the illusionist,” which was a pretty good movie.
Then I got to hang out with JENNI! who is getting married on saturday. I will use all caps at an exclamation point from now on whenever mentioned JENNI! because that’s how excited she is ALL THE TIME! Anyway, I gave JENNI! her “before the wedding day” gifts: a little lacey nightie with matching thong (in her WEDDING color! oh yeah!), a selection of strawberries and champagne scented body care products from Victoria’s Secret, a framed print of two little peas in a pod with a little heart above them (awwwww), and finally, the gift I am MOST proud of: the EMERGENCY WEDDING DAY KIT!
If you have a friend, co-worker, or cousin and you want to get them a wedding gift but everything left on the registry is lame (like pillow protectors and wooden spoons), HERE IS WHAT YOU DO!
Purchase a sparkly fun tote bag of some kind. Smallish, not a huge thing. And fill it with things that you need but might not have KNOWN you needed on your wedding day. JENNI!’s bag contains:
- bottle of kiwi strawberry vitamin water
- Tide pen
- small bottle of Tylanol
- Q-tips
- sewing kit
- safety pins
- deoderant
- tissues (MOST IMPORTANT!)
Some other things you can include are: energy bar, small bottle of vodka. But I ran out of room.
I also got to see The Dress. Which is GORGEOUS and lovely and she’s going to look SO GREAT in it, it’s just flowy and…uhhh…Jen? What’s wrong with that button?
On the back is a row of satin button. But they’re “fake,” in that it actually zips up, and the buttons hide the zipper. But one of the satin caps on the buttons had fallen off, leaving just a plain plastic button. Oops. Panic search ensues. No satin cap.
The plan is for JENNI! to call the bridal shop to see if they have the little caps that they can just snap onto the plastic base, instead of having to lug the dress back over there and sew on a new button. I told her to use super glue.
Super glue! That should have gone into the kit!!!!
Fortunately, JENNI! is not bridezilla, and she did not even come close to a meltdown over this. There is time. It will be fixed. And all will be OK.
Today mom and I are having lunch with my grandmother. Mmmmm…turkey devonshire!
Hey, that is a great idea! I will shamelessly rip that one off in the future!
Oh man, I want some Turkey whatever you called it.
Ya know, if Jenni wanted to be famous, she could have made you hold a video camera and she could have cut all her hair off BEING bridezilla!
Just saying…
Great idea, ESC! Let’s see, what would I have wanted in my kit (had I had an alert pal to make one for me)? Tiny bottle of hairspray? Bottle of clear nail polish? hairpins? Itty bitty notebook and pen to write down names/adderesses? Hand lotion. Lipstick that wouldn’t rub off. They hadn’t invented that yet the year I got married. Maybe I need to get married again just so I can use that good lipstick.
What Jamie said.
I think I went to school with a Turkey Devonshire.
I would definitely need some vodka… and a Valium…
When I got married someone did give me a wedding day basket; She said that she wished that she had one. Inside, from what I remember (since it will be 9 YEARS AGO next week?!?!?!?!?!?): mini bottles of shampoo and conditioner, two toothbrushes and a mini toothpaste, two mini deoderants and various snacking items: grapes, bananas, crackers, cheese and water. While R and I did didn’t forget to bring the deo, shampoo and toothpaste, when we got to the hotel (after 1am) we were STARVING and the snacks were a godsend. Yummy. I have vowed to do that for other people, but have never gotten off of my lazy butt to do it.
Other things besides, tissues, valium and vodka that would be needed: those weird tissue thingies that you get from the makeup counter that soak up the oil on your nose and forehead, such that you look like a fresh flowery bride (and that your shiney face doesn’t reflect all the light back twords the flash!)
Oh, I also put in mouthwash. because I remember having dry funkymouth right before the wedding.
I didn’t think about getting them stuff for their honeymoon…hmmm…that’s a good idea, Brenda!
For those not in the know, turkey devonshire is an open faced sandwich consisting of roast turkey, bacon, and usually a thick slice of tomato. Then the whole thing is covered with a creamy cheese sauce.
served with fries. HEART ATTACK ON A PLATE! but soooo goooood!
I resisted and instead had a steak salad. topped with steak. aannnnnd grilled mushrooms. and grilled onions. and hard boiled egg. and french fries. and then the whole thing was topped with shredded cheese that melted from the heat of the steak. and then I topped it off with bleu cheese dressing.
oh yeah.
and then a few hours later, we had bruster’s ice cream. it was a fatty kind of day.
Definitely need the tissues, I forgot, despite telling myself to remember and my sister had to pass me some. That’s what bridesmaids are for though, right?
So jealous. I haven’t had a good Western PA steak salad in years. Now my mouth is watering for one.
tee hee! I just found your “hypothetical” article. I had been looking for it for a while and just realized why I may not have found it yet! Gee, your famous!!!! BTW, how did you get interviewed?
She contacted me. I’m guessing she did a google search about her article topic, and my blog came up. I thought the email was a joke until I found out her name and email was legit. It was weird, though. She kept digging for conflict between me and Kev. And I wanted to say, look lady, this really isn’t all that dramatic. I decided to do it that way, and so I did. And Kev went along with it because as long as he gets fed, he doesn’t care! But I think she was trying to give more spice to a pretty uninteresting topic.
I wish I had A Wedding Basket….
I guess I need to get past The Big Move In Thing first.
xoxo,
TDR
That Wedding Bag idea is GREAT!! I have friends getting married soon, so this is a great idea! You could also slurge a little and get a nice monogrammed “Boat and Tote” bag from LLBean, so she could use it as a bag on the honeymoon. Love it!