 we've got another hosting video today this time it is my cousin's bridal shower this is the first bridal shower of i'm sure many some of y'all might already know elissa she's been in videos just throughout the years she's getting married and we are so excited she has been like the easiest bride ever i didn't even know a bride could be so easy we met early january to discuss themes just the overall idea but really she was just so chill and didn't care she gave a theme like petals of ruseco that we kind of followed loosely we really just went off that so i hope y'all enjoy and be sure to subscribe to my channel if you have not already hi y'all we're now two days out from the bridal shower i wish i would have vlogged the past month or so leading up but you know we had some other things going on so i didn't get to do that we have been planning this bridal shower for probably three months it's for my cousin elissa who's basically my big sister we're very very close and she is getting married so when she was getting married i was like obviously i have to host this this is very exciting for me she wanted her theme to be petals and ruseco elissa is actually very an incredibly low maintenance bride no one was more shocked than me like i'm kidding but she's just been like so low maintenance and i was kind of like begging to do certain things so today we have the signage getting delivered and i need to go get the newspaper stuff printed out i have this whole vision for a like floral bar like a flower bar where people can make their own arrangements we thought about using a vendor are they just like really expensive so i was like here's what we're gonna do we're gonna get custom newspaper printed out we got a template on etsy and i had her fill it out with all these like random facts and stuff and i'm gonna go to fedex and get printed because one of y'all gave me this hack right here thank god because it is saving my life there's a lot of websites i know that do it but i just didn't have the time to get that all done so i'm gonna go get them printed today and that's gonna be for the floral bar i have a couple things that have been delivered as well that i'll show you guys and then tomorrow we're gonna do all that stuff so i'm gonna just kind of like take you guys through what we've been up to what we've been doing so here are some of the things that we got these are from amazon cute little glasses for the girls i'll probably add pink ribbons to all of them today always do that in advance never the day of anything that you can do in advance like even just like setting things out here these are not for the bridal charm my dad just dropped them off for me from his house for the hosting closet but i tried to just have the least amount to do on the actual day of the shower so my grandma my mom are coming over today to help me just get some things done this is going to be i believe the oh actually no this is like gonna be the floral bar now that i think about it this is what we're gonna have gifts and then out here is what we're gonna do the floral bar just so it just makes more sense and also it's gonna be nice out which we weren't expecting so it's nice to be able to use the outside space so that's what we're doing we have a cheeseboard coming we have a cake coming some people are bringing like chips and dips and stuff because it's at 1 pm we're not serving a full meal it's more like bites i am gonna make a spinach artichoke dip i let me see where i actually got that recipe from my sister loves spinach artichoke dip that's like what she orders immediately when she sits down if they have it so i've always wanted to learn how to make it just because she loves it so much um and i got this recipe literally from food for thoughts um tiktok love and it's thought with a zero wait no f o zero d dot four number dot th zero t obsessed what a queen and this is the recipe it's my recipe journal these are available on friend of mine so anyways i'm gonna make that and that is a nice dip to make because you can prep it the day before so like i'm gonna like probably mix it all up have everything ready and then that way i can just like pop it in the oven day up and we're good to go oh yeah this is perfect that works we can just would we want it to be double-sided instead you can't double side it you know and then open it so like i said i know there's websites that do this but we were on a little bit of a tighter turnaround this is the best option i feel like for printing so it's on architecture paper which is slightly different 18 by 24 you can't do double sides there is a part that's going in the middle but it's mainly just honestly didn't really even need to get the part in the middle thinking about it now they're mainly going to go around the arrangements that everyone can make and then i just think it's like cute and we can have them you know laying out wherever but we used an etsy little like template thing that i will link below but there's so many different ones and like it's just so cute i think it's such a fun like personalized touch whenever i'm hosting anything i always like to make them just a little bit more personal so how cute so thursday evening i just tied all the bows to our little cups i have an entire amazon store front of everything that we use for the bridal shower linked there i loved the champagne flute they were super cute and i love a little added touch of the bow it's a really easy cost-effective way to personalize something i didn't film this that night we also got all of the signs delivered and we put them out throughout the house so it was really ready to go anything that you can have set up before do that as early as you possibly can that is always my biggest hosting tip like for dinner parties i also at the table sometimes a week in advance just to have that off my to-do list it's thursday evening a lot of progress has been made we just had the signs dropped off so we got templates from etsy we have this and then it came i'll link it below i forget the shop this is going to be cards and gifts over here and then we have the bar we already have her drinks so cute the list spritz and then marry me marg and then rose like all that stuff obviously you guys can see another thing i thought was cute very friend of mine coded um are these little recipe cards that we had printed off that everyone can leave like their favorite recipe or whatever for the happy couple so very fun i did get this earlier today we're picking them up tomorrow because we did get a bunch but you guys will see like what we're doing tomorrow i'm turning them into little like plural arrangements by the way this dropping paper really cute from walmart and then we just have three little like bridal shower games we're gonna play and then i'm putting together a little bag of like pr stuff basically for the winner so that'll make it extra fun we've cleaned up done all the things like the random stuff that needs to be done for hosting my backyard is looking a lot better or the little area out here it's just it's coming together it's friday it is the day before the shower my mom and i are at trader joes we're gonna get stuff for i'm making a spinach artichoke dip did you know that okay so i'm making a dip and then we're gonna get a bunch of flowers we we're gonna go to like a wholesale market but the more i thought about it and the more i researched it like i feel like trader joes pricing is really not that different trader joes as y'all know is where i go for flowers always like i go weekly for my like home arrangements and then also for dinner parties they just have the best prices the flowers last the longest they're just the best i want to keep the flowers under 200 if we can i feel like we can that's 20 arrangements maybe like two to three hundred yeah so we'll see and then what else do we have to do today oh and then after we're gonna go to fedex and get the rest of the prints and then we're ready to go but this is my favorite part is always the flowers where my keys i can't remember if i need to say anything else anything else on the grocery list besides spinach and artichoke uh we don't need to get anything for drinks because lin and elissa got them so we really just need spinach artichoke and then everything else is getting delivered tomorrow i'm such a good sister i learned that dip because it's free crackers oh yeah because i'm almost gluten-free but i'm such a good sister i learned um how to make spinach artichoke dip because it's maddie's favorite isn't that so sweet of me it is an incredible daughter as well now y'all trader joes was the move we just got all these flowers like so many and there's buckets over there and all the food that we needed on my ends for 270 which is crazy like this is so many flowers you can't even see because the lighting is so bad but definitely the right move stunning we're back at fedex to pick up the newspapers and then i also got a few photos of them printed quick break to talk to y'all about the truly party pack i love this pack and if y'all are going to book club a bridal shower a dinner party anything that someone hosts this is what you should be bringing okay so it has four flavors watermelon citrus squeeze raspberry and pineapple they taste amazing my personal favorite is pineapple these are four fan favorite flavors each flavor is really light they're super refreshing and they're made with real fruit juice they have five percent a bv a hundred calories wonderful sugar and diagrams of carbs it is just the perfect refreshing drink to find truly heart seltzer near you go to truly heart seltzer dot com slash locations that is truly heart seltzer dot com slash locations truly heart seltzer keep it light truly heart seltzer beverage company boston massachusetts please drink responsibly all right it is now friday evening and i'm about to get ready on the arrangements and the flower bar i cannot believe how many flowers we got at such an amazing price i wish the lighting out here was a little bit better but this entire area is going to be our little flower bar station and then i have buckets i've been waiting all day to start this because i have flower buckets that are on their way from amazon but they haven't arrived yet and they're arriving supposedly by 9 p.m so i haven't really been able to like lay any of this out yet but i'm gonna go ahead and start on the arrangements for my house whenever i host i always do some hydrangeas in the bathroom these are like the easiest ones i just kind of put it on the house and then i make a little arrangement myself like i'm you couldn't tell me that i'm not for us at this point so i'm gonna separate them by like flower bar arrangement whatever and then i'm gonna go on the hosting closet which is in the middle of a little makeover so ignore that we're getting wallpaper installed but we ran out i have all my vases in here so oh this is literally perfect i'm just gonna grab and pick um what i have and what i need for the weekend for the arrangements i probably will need more vases but this is just what i'm gonna go with for now these are mainly for the flower bar and then these will be for arrangements so this one i'm working with they're kind of random but we'll see i love a good floral arrangement and we lucked out i mean trader joes has the best flowers and they also last the longest and they're also the cheapest so i ended up making some arrangements for the actual house and then we also kind of separated them and got them ready for the flower bar so these are the arrangements that i made this one's gonna go by the sign and then i'm not sure where we're putting the other ones this is dying we're just gonna see if it you know revives by morning if not whatever this one i need to fix i just don't have you know the much capacity currently but um they're really cute they're way more like springish it's weirdly warm for february so these buckets i got on amazon they're very inexpensive and i'll end up using them for other things for sure i wish that we had something to give a little bit more height so it looked better i'm gonna brainstorm and think about that tonight but i'm gonna make my first like fake arrangement just to see how this all turns out but it's looking cute this is just no this is just a trial for tomorrow so we have this ready to go i am going to disassemble it but it looks so cute all right that was perfect my mom just got some salad bowls from the hosting closet and this is what we're working with i think it looks so cute so tomorrow i will lay out all of the newspaper out here and then we'll do some bowls for twine and ribbon scissors things like that so everyone can come actually i guess we're gonna need to keep a little workspace area kind of clean i don't know we'll figure that out tomorrow but so far it's looking amazing we're setting up right now for tomorrow again this is from our little etsy thing all amazon so cute i'll start hey an entire storefront for things that i did for this bridal shower all very cost effective and amazing so things that you can also use like later on all right i'm ready to prep the spinach artichoke dip this is so easy so it's just a lot of cheese i'm gonna put the recipe on oh i just cleaned and i got this everywhere it's lots of cheese artichoke hearts it's a very very simple recipe but it's really good and you can prep it a day before which makes it so much nicer marinated artichokes i pretty much just throw in everything today morning i finished setting up the flower bar just to make sure everything was good to go we had really good weather so i was able to do it a little bit earlier i thought this was just such a cute out of touch we were quoted really high for floral bars not that they're not worth that like to the businesses they definitely are just wasn't really in our budget so i may do happy saturday it is the day of the bridal shower if y'all are wondering where all these extra details have been coming from all vlog it's i'm on my grandma's talks so it is the morning my cousin and my aunt are coming around noon to bring over a couple things the bridal shower starts at two i really just have to finish the floral bar which will not take me that long and then get out all of the dishware that i want we have a couple appetizers being brought by other people and then i need to finish the artichoke dip which i'll pop in the oven probably around one one thirty just to have it ready we have a charcuterie board coming and a cake being delivered today it feels so amazing outside right now like i just cannot believe how it's literally the last weekend of february and normally it's like freezing in texas right now it's just the most perfect weather when we were planning this like six months ago we were thinking we weren't gonna be able to go outside we were gonna be wearing like park us okay so we're getting very close um the key to everything i say this always is to just spread it out over multiple days and just have things sitting out in your house so you don't have to be stressed out normally i would actually have had probably all the dishes out but i just like wasn't feeling it last night i needed to go to bed and decompress and just like not speak to anyone for a bit so we're gonna do that now let's go to the dressing closet all right time to go in okay i know i'm gonna use this for the cake this definitely should be big enough i don't know if this is gonna this will probably be a little big for this benadryl choke dip uh let me think about this i will be using this for the twine in the ribbon for the flower bar i think i am going to at least try to use this for this benadryl choke dip this is from adhan they have the best stuff i feel like it is gonna be too big but we'll figure that out i do have other stuff oh you know what these bowls we could use this china it's for my grandparents wedding like i said you know they got divorced but i got the china so who's the real winner you know i'm thinking maybe i will use both of them and just put the dip in here oh i don't have chips i don't have chips genius genius so i guess chips will have to go in here or something and then i know they're making a veggie plot they're making like veggie plotters bringing those so i'm thinking the china i think it's time to bring out the china if i need more i'll just come in here but i think we're good all right so this is the ribbon and then we have some twine down there maybe i'll actually only have one thing of twine so we're gonna put this out here and then the rest of the ribbon in here we should probably bring a little trash can or something just to keep it like tidier but that is our little setup i'll get a little cute pair of scissors out here and the flower bar this is a much cheaper option than hiring um we just like could it was just too expensive but there are like really great amazing businesses dallas based actually i'll link one below that i really like if y'all don't want to do this yourself and you want to have someone who's like making the arrangements for you and stuff she's really awesome it's just it was too expensive for us so anyways we may do with what we had i have all of our trigger joe's flowers and then all of our newspaper i hate that the lighting is hitting like this but these ended up turning out so cute i do recommend using one of the websites beforehand and not waiting like i did but it still ended up turning out so great and the actual like stencil thing itself template was like probably 10 bucks there is a nancy guys please ignore my hands i self-tanned last night and like i really just don't want to talk about it it's nothing new but let's just ignore it nancy meyers has a playlist for literally everything so nancy meyers bridal shower that's the playlist that we're going to play and then mix in some taylor swift but anything nancy meyers is always just the best for entertaining the cake was just dropped off dallas girls this is where we're buying cakes from here on out okay it's titas it's titas um on instagram i will have their instagram links below this is the most perfect cake they DM'd me and then alissa just sent me like cake and so i literally just sent this to justin just be spider and i mean it was amazing so nice so incredible i literally can't get over how amazing this cake is she's gonna be so excited i mean it is perfect it's like a dollhouse cake all right y'all it's time for me to get trust okay i got some dresses from shampo and i think that this is the one that i'm going to go with and then i have these heels like their platform heels they're really a lot but they match the best out of any of my stuff forever ago payton sarton did a jewelry collab and i got the cutest like dangly pearl earrings and i cannot find them anywhere and i need the back because i love them i think i wore them for christmas but i haven't worn them so anyways all right this is the look i just put oil on so i'm trying not to get it on in my dress shampo macy's and then i just put a little oil the only one that i had that was broadening the sunscreen so i think it's gonna be five six capari so then are my smiley good rides almost here everyone else is arriving in like an hour and a half and we're pretty much ready cheeseboard has arrived come on in i'm filming you oh my god it's very very cute this is so cute wow okay come on in come on in this way look at all the table your makeup looks great yeah wow she came she dressed for the occasion oh my god this looks so good and then come to the cake you're gonna die at the cake oh my god what's your category for oh my god it's so cute it's cute it's literally perfect it's exactly the photo wow thank you the girlies are all dressed up hi cuties hi cuties i opted for these white buckets as well because i knew i would use them for things later on so i was happy to pay for them and it like wasn't an issue at all i loved the custom newspaper i feel like this was so cute so fun and so personal i'm sure this is going to be the next jugi thing in like 10 years to bridal showers but right now i'm loving it and the flower bar was just a really fun little different thing to do and then that way everyone leaves with something i love flowers like i can never have too many so i just thought this was so fun and honestly it was a big crowd fave okay it looks a lot better out here we had to move it because the lighting was really bad so this is much much better the girls you guys are so stunning alex 7 p.m this dress is so cute it's a little big i will say i don't think it was like the most flattering dress ever but it's so cute so i wear it anyways but it's 7 p.m i am so tired so i'm gonna wash my face needlepoint my saturday night away and go to bed but if y'all liked this video of hosting at the bridal shower let me know i hope i got enough footage during the shower i feel like it is never actually filmed during the event it's mainly just all of the lead up but i hope you guys are doing subscribe if you're new here love you guys so much and i'll talk to you in my next video bye