Bridal shower

Happy Monday everyone.  I hope everyone had a lovely weekend.  We had a lot of festivities going on with Father's Day on Sunday and throwing a bridal shower for my niece Lizz on Saturday.

I was more a supplier of linens than actual thrower of said shower.  I love having a reason to pull out all the vintage tablecloths I have.

Turns out is it super easy to make chocolate dipped strawberries.  I melted a package and a half of milk chocolate chips in a double boiler. The trick is to add a little bit of shortening (I added two tablespoons) while it is melting and even more important – take the chips off the heat when they are about 3/4 of the way melted.  Just keep stirring.  This way the chocolate doesn't seize up. 

For the squiggles I just put some white chocolate chips in a ziplock back and melted them in the microwave (15 seconds at a time, massaging the bag before putting them in for another 15 seconds).  Just snip a teeny corner off the bag and squiggle onto the dipped strawberries.

It was mostly a shower of eating wonderful little nibbly things and drinking champagne (the perfect meal in my opinion).

We only did one game and it was really funny.  Bridal Bingo.  There were 25 questions about Lizz and you had to guess the correct answer and when you have five across you had Bingo.

Her future groom supplied the answers to the question.  Aren't you curious what question prompted the answer "her big ass travel case of makeup?"

(What one thing would Lizz take to a desert island?)

Ruby wanted to eat the Bingo markers.  Luckily she was kind of mystified by the taste and spit out the one M&M she did manage to swipe.