How I spent my Friday night

Crissy's sister gets married a week from, well, today, technically.  It's now after midnight - which means only seven short days until Jennifer's big day.  It's a long standing tradition that when you get married and have a rehearsal, the bride carries a bouquet made from the ribbons she received on all of the presents from all of the bridal showers.  With that, is also the old wives tale about how many ribbons breaking equaling the number of children in the marriage, blah, blah, blah.  Enough of that.  At Jennifer's family shower back in October, I offered to take the ribbons and make Jennifer's rehearsal bouquet.  I had plans of making tissue paper flowers so it resembled more of an actual bouquet than ribbons stuck through a paper plate (no offense to all of those brides who have done that, though - just not my cup of tea).

On Thanksgiving, Jennifer gave me the rest of her ribbons from her other showers.  At that point, it looked like a lot of ribbons.  Let me just tell you - it was A LOT of ribbons!  With the wedding only a week away and knowing how much I hate to be productive once home during the week after work, I decided tonight might be a good time to start on the bouquet.  I mean - it's freaking freezing outside, there's loads of snow (and by loads, I clearly mean about 2 inches), and Crissy and I had no plans.  So, I picked up some tissue paper, sparkly silver pipe cleaners, and silver and green glittery stuff earlier today to adorn the bouquet and make it more "real" looking.

Two full hours later, there is one rather large rehearsal bouquet sitting in my largest vase that regularly graces the shelf-thing in the living room.  I wish the pictures I took really captured the magnitude of this thing - it's just that large.  And, did I mention how many freaking ribbons Jennifer had?  More specifically - did I mention how many purple satin ribbons she has from Bed, Bath and Beyond?  I mean, they're pretty - but come on!  So, here are some pics....though, quite frankly - she has so many ribbons that I think they completely overtook the paper flowers I made (which were rather large themselves).