JENNASIS creations&events: Lauren's Bachelorette Day!

What a privilege it was to be able to plan and orchestrate a bachelorette party for my beautiful cousin and best friend for life. Lauren is getting married December 22nd and is fully responsible for the initiative to get "Jennasis" up and running. I've been a busy girl planning all of her wedding festivities! With a team of highly trained and organized MOH's (yes... she has four), we started out the day by kidnapping her from her apartment at 10 am. We threw this DIY bride sash on her that I handmade the night before out of different kinds of ribbon, a hot glue gun, glitter, cheetah print (duh) and some sparkly poster paper. What can I say... I hated all the pre-made bride-to-be sashes so I just said to hell with it and made my own.

Our first trip was to breakfast at Terrace Cafe in the Southpark area of Charlotte. Lauren got Red Velvet Waffles with Cream Cheese frosting...the motto for the day was "Screw the Bride Diet!" I had no bride diet to screw so I just stuck with my normal eating habits and ordered a scrumptious veggie, cheeseless, egg white omelete, fruit bowl, and whole wheat toast with fresh preserves! Umm... amazing and I could actually still stand up for the rest of the day's activities. Next stop was the nail salon where we tied up five chairs for an hour, gossiped, and planned out more wedding details.

We had a special afternoon at the Dairy Barn, Lauren's wedding and reception venue, where we tested out the aisle in the most wedding-inappropriate and hilarious of ways and also worked on composing the song she's going to walk down the aisle to with her talented musicians. I would post pictures but I don't want to spoil the surprise so you'll just have to wait!

Lauren was allowed a short nap and shower while Cameron, Brooke, Haley, and I scrambled to decorate the house, make the appetizers, and attempt to transform ourselves from frantic, sweaty beasts into pretty bachelorette party hostesses. Naturally it was a whopping 105 degrees outside with the humidity of the amazon. Great timing!

Now I know most of you don't know Lauren but she is a very special Bride. She cherishes close friendships, would rather talk all night than prowl the vegas strip, sips instead of chugs her martinis, is cranky if she's not in bed by midnight, and it would take approximately five minutes for her to have a typical bachelorette party male stripper in a chokehold reading the bible. Her favorite cocktail is a Pineapple Martini, she loves anything and everything pink, glitter, and girly, and her honeymoon destination to Jamaica leaves her wanting both lingerie and sexy cover-ups. Take a look at what I came up with...

Here are photos of the finished project for our "Honeymoon Happy Hour" lingerie and cover-up shower for Lauren! It was followed by a Hummer limo ride to a private Italian dinner with her closest friends where we shared our favorite stories, both funny and touching about Lauren. After toasting the Bride with champagne we got back in the limo for late-night milkshakes at Cowfish. And by late-night I mean 11:00 pm. We were snuggled in bed by midnight.