A couple of months ago I had the honor of hosting a family wedding shower for my soon to be sister-in-law, Allie! Allie and her fiance {my brother-in-law, Jay} both love to cook, and most of the gifts they registered for are kitchen and cooking related, so a “Stock the Kitchen” shower seemed like a perfect choice!
Years ago, my mom gifted me a recipe box filled with recipes from all of our friends and family! It is a prized possession of mine, and I wanted to do the same for Allie! I found a very cute kitchen shower invitation on Shutterfly, and {after much searching} found some adorable recipe cards on Amazon. I included three recipe cards in the envelope with each invitation, and added a photo and note to the back of the invitation asking family members to fill out the cards and bring them to the shower to add to Allie’s recipe box.
I look my blender and food processor to my favorite Denver flower shop {The Ruffly Rose} expecting them to look at me like I was crazy, but they totally went with it! The plan was to have the flowers arranged directly in the glass cup of the blender, but it turns out that my blender doesn’t seal properly {not sure how I never knew that before?!}. Since the blender wouldn’t hold water, the florist ended up putting the flowers in a teal mason jar and sat the jar inside the blender’s cup. Obviously the look would be even better if the flowers could have been directly in the blender {as they are with the food processor} – but you do what you have to do!
I sat the food processor flowers on the entry table, together with the recipe box.
I know I’m not the only one who had a major crush on the Oh Joy! for Target line of party decorations this spring {and summer, and fall…}. When I saw some of the spring line go on clearance, I snatched up the tableware, along with a handful of paper lanterns, which I hung from the ceiling of the living room.
I strung some of the tassels up and hung them from the painting above the entry table, and hung the rest behind the food table in the kitchen.
I labeled the food using the same pack of scrapbook paper that I turned into recipe box dividers.
Those adorable two-toned cups are part of the Oh Joy! for Target spring collection,and the water pitchers and beverage dispensers are also from Target {purchased last year}.
I continued the kitchen theme by writing out a recipe for a happy marriage on our kitchen chalkboard wall.
I read a lot of marriage “recipes” online, and then modified them to come up with one that I thought was well suited to Jay and Allie’s relationship.
For dessert, I stocked up on some crazy delicious cookies from Azucar, the Peruvian bakery in our neighborhood.
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