Jenn060306
04-03-2006, 11:48 PM
I didn't think that making a list for a bridal shower could be so complicated. I really didn't. Maybe i'm just nieve. Anyways. My mom asked me to make a list of family (girls) i would like to invite to a bridal shower. Seemed pretty simple but i wasn't completely sure if my MOH was planning somthing for me that would be my friends so i made up a second list of just friends and told my mom that if nothing eles was happening i wanted my friends to be invited as well since i think they may be hurt to find out they weren't invited to a shower. So i send it to her along with some dates that are good for me so she can tell my cousin who is organizing it.
Tonight my mom calls me in a bit of a panic telling me that Gail is now throwing Mark and I a Jack and Jill on May 28th and she wants to know what theme we want to do. THEME?!? What do you mean theme i thought? Like.... beach party? pajama party? No.... apperently theme of gift like outdoors stuff. Outdoors stuff would be awsome. If i was going to get a house for sure. But i have never heard of this so it throws me completely off and i can't think of anything. So i ask Mark and he's being a smart-*** and says the theme is Gift Registry... Linens and things! He thinks this whole theme party thing is silly. So the theme is Jenn and Mark are getting married. I tried looking up stuff on the internet but got no where. Whatever.
My mom then starts telling me who will now be invited cause it will be all my family and my girlfriends and their significant others. Only draw back is she's thinking we shouldn't invite any of Mark's friends. She even tried to say the guys Mark works with would understand if they weren't invited to the party but their parents and younger sister was. HOW WOULD ANYONE UNDERSTAND THAT?!!? I start telling her that that wouldn't work and they wouldn't understand and simply that it isn't right and she starts yelling at me over the phone because apperently i am now yelling. I never even raised my voice. Possibly it was a bit more stern then usual because i was very addiment that if the whole family (who are extremely good friends of ours and who are playing music at the wedding ceramony for free) are not all being invited none of them are being invited. I think my blood pressure doubled and my heart rate tripled. Who's wedding party is it?! Apperently not mine!
I finally got her to understand that it doesen't work that way. And got her to realize that people don't need to bring a date to a shower. She had just been taking out the people on the guest list who were already going to be invited to another shower or who are out of town and wouldn't be able to make it. So that dropped the numbers and calmed her down.
I couldn't belive how crazy this suddenly seems. It's 2 months to the wedding now. I really didn't think a simple family wedding shower would blow up so quickly to be a jack and jill with 50 people on the guest list. I feel like all my stresses are starting to go through the roof and like i am going to completely snap soon. I love my mom more then anything. But she drives me up the wall some days! I had to wait on the phone in silence while i waited for her to finish deleting out the cells in excel so the list would be perfect. ARRRRRGGGGH! And now with such a big party i definatly have to go beef up the gift registry. We need so much i hardly know where to even start. I want to cry!
Tonight my mom calls me in a bit of a panic telling me that Gail is now throwing Mark and I a Jack and Jill on May 28th and she wants to know what theme we want to do. THEME?!? What do you mean theme i thought? Like.... beach party? pajama party? No.... apperently theme of gift like outdoors stuff. Outdoors stuff would be awsome. If i was going to get a house for sure. But i have never heard of this so it throws me completely off and i can't think of anything. So i ask Mark and he's being a smart-*** and says the theme is Gift Registry... Linens and things! He thinks this whole theme party thing is silly. So the theme is Jenn and Mark are getting married. I tried looking up stuff on the internet but got no where. Whatever.
My mom then starts telling me who will now be invited cause it will be all my family and my girlfriends and their significant others. Only draw back is she's thinking we shouldn't invite any of Mark's friends. She even tried to say the guys Mark works with would understand if they weren't invited to the party but their parents and younger sister was. HOW WOULD ANYONE UNDERSTAND THAT?!!? I start telling her that that wouldn't work and they wouldn't understand and simply that it isn't right and she starts yelling at me over the phone because apperently i am now yelling. I never even raised my voice. Possibly it was a bit more stern then usual because i was very addiment that if the whole family (who are extremely good friends of ours and who are playing music at the wedding ceramony for free) are not all being invited none of them are being invited. I think my blood pressure doubled and my heart rate tripled. Who's wedding party is it?! Apperently not mine!
I finally got her to understand that it doesen't work that way. And got her to realize that people don't need to bring a date to a shower. She had just been taking out the people on the guest list who were already going to be invited to another shower or who are out of town and wouldn't be able to make it. So that dropped the numbers and calmed her down.
I couldn't belive how crazy this suddenly seems. It's 2 months to the wedding now. I really didn't think a simple family wedding shower would blow up so quickly to be a jack and jill with 50 people on the guest list. I feel like all my stresses are starting to go through the roof and like i am going to completely snap soon. I love my mom more then anything. But she drives me up the wall some days! I had to wait on the phone in silence while i waited for her to finish deleting out the cells in excel so the list would be perfect. ARRRRRGGGGH! And now with such a big party i definatly have to go beef up the gift registry. We need so much i hardly know where to even start. I want to cry!