When Emma was planning to marry she didn’t want a bridal shower. She had only ever been to showers that were in her words “skanky” and “embarrassing beyond words”. Well that’s not who we are and I know that if I turned the party over to her sisters, sisters in law and aunt that those words would not come up or even be spoken.

The other problem in that most people are so accustomed to bad shower games and icky presents that it’s hard to get people to attend, especially if you’re inviting

When we started planning Emma’s wedding she didn’t have a vision of how she wanted it to look. She did however have some specific ideas; 1. she didn’t want a cake, she doesn’t like cake, she likes pie, 2. she didn’t want flowers, she wanted buttons, refer to the article titled the button party, 3. she wanted to sit on her great grandmothers swing, refer to the article Emma’s swing, and 4. she wanted to wear her grandmothers wedding dress.

These are the orders we started with in planning her

In preparing for my daughter Emma’s wedding we decided to make it a family event as much as possible. This would include her old family, her new family, the in-laws, the out-laws, everyone she loved.

This wedding reception was to be very unique, I know people say that all the time when really they just come up with more bling and a different color, but this was going to be fairly different and so it would require a lot of handmade things, which also means time!

Emma doesn’t really like cut

I turned 50 this month. I take a deep breath just writing that down. This is the first birthday that has ever bothered me. It’s not that I feel old, although there are days, it’s that I feel mortal, I feel that I have less time left than I have behind me. Morbid? Yes, but true. I haven’t dwelt on it a lot but it’s there, that feeling of mortality creeping up on me. I have so much I want to do, so many memories to build, so many things I don’t want to miss out on. So I took a big deep breath and