My aunts on my mom's side (all her sis-in-laws) Aunt Sandi, Aunt Joann (also my Godmother), and Aunt Wendy hosted my bridal shower. They worked for months planning it and it was amazing. It was a French patisserie theme. Pink and blue (our colors), Eiffle towers, even down to the favors that had "Amore" lotion. It was very elegant and very "me." And there was so much food!!! i had two big plates of food and still couldn't try everything there was to eat! I am so grateful to them for doing this for me. All I did was show up :)

I went downstate for the entire weekend to make the most of it. First night was spent with my future sis-in-law Jessica. We went to dinner, got mani-pedi's and chit chatted. She just married FI's brother in May and we have not had time to just hang out and chat in a loooong time. So it was great!

I spent the next night at my cousin's. He is getting married in December so we of course chatted about our weddings and just hung out which was really nice to be able to do. 

And finally here are pics of the shower!

Table set up. It's hard to see and I didn't think to get a pic at the time, but the favors were blue nail files and a bottle of Paris Amour lotion tied together with a pink bow. So perfect and cute!  The lemonade bottles and flowers were raffled off   

The desserts - cupcakes and chocolate covered strawberries :)

Prizes for games

Bridal party (my sister couldn't go because she was really sick so she was missing and my niece who is another flower girl)

 Left to right: bridesmaid and best friend/sorority sister Sara. Me. MOH and best friend Ashley. Flower girl (her parents are good friends of ours) Sydney

The hostesses! My aunts. Left to right: Aunt Sandi, me, Aunt Wendy, Aunt Joann

My cousins (that were there). Mandy (girlfriend of my cousin Michael), Savannah, me, Brianna, Lia, Tiffany (engaged to cousin Brandon)

FI's family. Left to right: his cousin Amanda, Aunt Lisa, me, his little sister Nicole, mom Alice, sister-in-law Jessica, Grandma

With my plate of cupcakes and chocolate covered strawberries. I didn't get to try the wedding cake one because people got to it before I did but the other ones were great. 

Speech time (our facial expressions crack me up!) Introduced bridal party and FI's family to my family. I also gave my aunts their hostess gifts - Set of B&BW lotion and shower gel, pocket bac, candle, loofah and stress relief bath salts with a tag "I hope your next shower is as nice as mine. Thank you so much!"

I don't know which gift I was opening but I obviously loved it! This expression is priceless!!

My future sister-in-law Jess snuck a special gift into her gift basket - a Coach wristlet! She knows I've been wanting something Coach forever and I've never had anything! This is going to be my wristlet for the wedding

I know you ladies will love this - a Pinterest gift! My MOH gave me a huge bakeware set and also these oven mitts stuffed with utensils and recipe cards. So cute!

All of the loot on display for FI to see when he gets home from work :)