One down....

Amanda's shower was yesterday - It was beautiful! She got a lot of wonderful gifts and had a lot of people show up. The food was great, the people were great and best of all, Amanda really enjoyed herself!

This is one down for the summer, I don't even know how many more I have, for sure 2! Then Mel is in January.... before you know it, it will be time for my shower!

I noticed a lot of differences between Italian and Canadian showers. For one, the bride doesn't open her own gifts in the Italian shower. The bridesmaids open the gifts and they get put out on display. Second, the shower is held in a banquet hall, with a FULL meal. I'm talking antipasto, pasta, pasta (yes, 2 pasta's lol) chicken with veggies and potato, salad, dessert, cookies and cake. It really is a LOT of food! Personally, and this is only my opinion, I prefer when the bride opens her own gifts and gets to see them and then say a quick thank you to the gift giver. But, it's because thats really all I've ever known.

Either way, it was wonderful! Can't wait for my own!

Side note - Rob and I drove up to our dirt and saw that they poured the concrete footprint! I'll try to get up there tonight to take some pics, I can't figure out how to get the ones I have off my cell phone!