Always a Bridesmaid!

Yesterday was 08/08/08! A few years ago I had decided that it would be really fun if I could get married on 08/08/08 because I have a ton of 8's that have randomly popped up in dates through out my entire life including my birthday. Well since I don't even have a boyfriend currently I obviously wasn't going to be getting married. So instead I decided to hold a party.

I invited several of my good girl friends and we all dressed up in old bridesmaid dresses. It was just fun to have an excuse to dress up! Then I had punch and another friend of mine even baked us a small "wedding" cake. The funny part was that he even took a cheap cake topper and cut the groom off of it! Then we played some really cheesy games that I had come up with. First I had them split into teams and gave them each a brides magazine, poster board, scissors, and a glue stick. Then they had 20 minutes to plan my wedding. It was quite funny to see what the three groups came up with. It went from getting married in Vegas and riding a camel, to getting married in an alternate universe and skinny dipping when a strange man pops out of the water, and then there was the group that got so detailed they even picked out my china pattern! We were laughing so hard it was quite entertaining. Another game we played was the the "Worst Wedding Gift Exchange." Basically it was a white elephant keeping in mind that the theme was wedding gifts. There were several very creative items though I think that funniest was the sympathy card someone stuck in with their gift! The the last thing we did was have everyone write down one word to describe what they thought my ideal man should be. That was quite funny but the gist of it ended up being that he needed to be extremely handsome, musical, meek, and my favorite, fertile!! We had such a great time, I think I am going to have to come up with more excuses to dress up in the future!

My sister, me, and my sister-in-law
The beautiful cake my friend made.
I toasted myself in the mirror and I think this picture turned out really well!
The group that decided I was getting married in an alternate universe and apparently I am wanted by many men in the universe :)
The group that got extremely detailed, all the way down to my china pattern! Though I like the idea of going to Greece for my honeymoon!
The Vegas group, which included my mom and sister-in-law which is kinda scary. Apparently I wore a red dress, the bridesmaids wore peach, and the groomsmen were aliens in pink vests! They said it was because I had to hurry up and throw everything together that I had to go with what ever they could find. Though there was a luau for the reception and apparently I wore a red bikini and then rode off on a camel!