Right Up My Alley

Months ago, I mentioned in a blog post that our son is getting married.

The wedding is now just 3 months away and last Saturday the first real wedding event, the bridal shower, was held.

I am so fortunate that my future daughter-in-law and her friends trusted me to make a lot of the decorations for the bridal shower - they know that crafting is "right up my alley".

Aylin loves coffee, so much, that the Maid of Honor suggested coffee as the theme for the shower and I had fun creating coffee related decorations.

A LOVE IS BREWING banner greeted guests as they came through the gate.

The background on each flag had math questions because Joshua is a math whiz and will be graduating with a 4th degree, this one in math, in just 6 weeks.

Aylin's mother's Turkish samovar served as a beautiful decoration beneath the banner.

The shower was attended by family and friends on both sides so I created a "get to know you" game to mix up the crowd - it was wonderful to see everyone beginning as strangers and hugging goodbye with "see you at the wedding" as they departed.

Aylin's family is from Turkey so each guest was given a bracelet with the Turkish good luck charm of the eye-like symbol know as a nazar.

Plants potted in teapots, cups and other crockery decorated the tables and

cards with coffee or tea quotes were strewn along the tables and throughout the house.

Unfortunately, I was too busy enjoying incredible Turkish dishes and chatting with everyone to get photos of either the food or the dessert tables.

As guests left, they filled burlap bags with their choice of coffee beans as their parting gift.

I have been so busy these last few weeks creating things for the shower and now it is time to move on to the wedding.

These boxes from Betsy at My Salvaged Treasures will be part of the decorations and she is also making me a set of Mr. and Mrs. forks.

Steve teases me about everything I am doing for the wedding, but he knows that I am in my element.