My nephew is getting married this Saturday, and this weekend we had the wedding shower for his bride and it was so much fun!  There is something about gathering a bunch of women together opening gifts, laughing about being married and sharing wisdom. As I sat there and watched all this happen I thought about what a cool thing this kind of gathering was as the women who had been there before were giving gifts and sharing wisdom about being married. There were young women like my daughters there, and all ages in between including a grandmother that had been married for over 50 years – all in the same room sharing in this celebration. I was so glad my daughters were there to see it all and share in the tradition soaking it all in, as one aunt used the bows to make a bouquet for the rehearsal. My girls were asking what that was about, and we got to explain it was a tradition that all the married women in the room shared. It was a very fun night and there is something about all the women in a family being together to welcome a new woman into the family.

I wonder where the tradition of wedding showers got started and thought to myself, “wouldn’t it be great if we celebrated each other like that once in a while, not because we were getting married or having a baby but just because we wanted to celebrate each other?”  It is going to be a great week. We have Aunts and Uncles coming in from Michigan: Aunts and Uncles my kids and my husband have never met – which will be so much fun. It will be a great family event, watching my sister as her first-born gets married. Graham my husband is performing the ceremony AND HE ALWAYS DOES SUCH A GREAT JOB and I LOVE him in a suit! My girls all have new dresses and my little man in a tie, all this makes a moms day! But mostly I love a big family event and all the memories. As a bonus we get to stay in a hotel in Denver for the night before the wedding, which is so fun for us because we never do that.

Here is to great weekend and lots of fun memories!