# 26 Going to the chapel and ...

I'm going to write a bunch of invitations for my friend Mallory's wedding shower. Longtime readers will remember our family friend, Lori, who lives in the Village nearby me and is a fantastic cook, especially breakfast foods! Mallory is Lori's daughter, and I love her! She just eloped and married Brandon Giovengo, and now we are planning not only a big wedding reception for them at the end of February, but also a wedding shower in a couple weeks.

We considered doing a 24 hour shower-- where each guest is assigned an hour of the day and you buy things to correspond with that hour-- i.e., 8:00 a.m. a waffle maker or specialty coffee or bath towels, 6:00 p.m. cookware, 9:00 p.m. glassware for nightcaps or board games for a particularly wild night, 3:00 a.m. sheets and bedding. However, Aunt Ju and I are apparently not smart enough to figure out the logistics of this-- how to assign on a small invitation, whether to assign to everyone via invitations or just those who RSVP, etc. Its very tough work throwing a bridal shower. We decided to scrap the entire idea and just let people buy whatever the heck they want.

I've been assigned the fun job of writing out the invitations and the envelopes-- its not that bad but there are a lot of them and the paper is that weird, shiny stuff on which ink smears easily so its kinda annoying.

Here are the invites themselves-- isn't my handwriting average??!!

Here are a bunch of the invitations spread out so they won't smear!