Bridal Shower ~ Brewery Style

A while ago my eldest daughter 

hosted a very unique bridal shower for her younger sister.

Their mutual "bestie" friend Sara co-hosted this fun event.

To truly know my youngest - you'd know 
she just doesn't fit into a cookie cutter world.

(Both my girls are artsy, urbane, eclectic and unique.)

My bride-to-be daughter really doesn't like things
too frilly or fussy.

(In all honesty, she even had to be talked into having a shower!)

Both of my girls' mates - along with Sara's
 ♥ locally made artisan brews,

 and they often triple date and frequent a favorite:

The Seventh Son Brewery.


Here is a pic of the front bar portion.

Don't you just adore their industrial vibe?

The floors are painted concrete.

The tables are real wood.

Everything is just perfectly rustic and shabby.

The shower began when guests came up to this fabulous old 
reclaimed-wood sliding barn door and went inside:

The brewery's spaceous private event area is brick,

with exposed ductwork, windows to let in natural light
and a huge glass garage door that opens onto a patio.

(But was much too hot to open that day, but we had hoped to do so.)

The colors of the shower were pink, white, black and gold
to match the invitations.

Painted bottles, vintage silverplate forks, pink cloth napkins, gold chargers, glass dinner plates,
fun white and black runner, fun "engagement ring" favors and
tons of color-perfect jars on candies on the tables.

Pink flowers all over the place. Love the sweet roses!

Pink lemonade at the dessert table,
with pink plastic flutes with black and white paper straws.

Black white chevron paper cake plates
 and gold plastic cake forks were used for dessert.

A fast and simple clean-up at the end was ideal.

Sorry I had to keep private info private on the invites with smudge-
but that's the way of the internet, one cannot be too careful these days.

A tradition my sister started with HER bridal shower
 and now one that both my daughters used for their showers:

Inside the invitation was a matching recipe card
asking when the guest attended to have filled it out
with a favorite recipe to add to the bride-to-be's collection.

It was so great to see all the wonderful favorite recipes!

My sister brought one in my mother's handwriting
and my cousin brought one in her mother's handwriting-
it doesn't get much more tear-filled special than THAT!

They were all placed in this cute
 personalized wooden recipe box below: 

I didn't realize that Sara brought her potato salad recipe
until I was doing this post and saw it in the pic.

She makes the BEST potato salad, YAY!!!

 I am so happy for that recipe! 

And nothing was more fun than seeing Katie's happiness.

I know she likes trucks and gardening and power tools.

But golly was it fun to see her morph into a girlie girl
and enjoy herself so much.

After the bridal shower and clean up
 a few of us stayed back a while for a pint
 and more than just a few sighs....

The wedding is *THIS* weekend-
 Saturday the 29th.



(I am sorry to have been so MIA, but we've been so busy!)


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All pics in this post were taken my hubs and/or son-in-law.


As always, thank you for your visit!

♥

~Michele

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