"You could WIN one of these FABULOUS PRIZES...."

Hello all!  It's October 16th, which means we're exactly one month away from our wedding social!  We're very excited to have a huge party with all of our family and friends, and today I wanted to share with you some of the awesome prizes that we will won by lucky people in attendance at our social!

Everybody loooooves prizes!

 

 

 

Blame it on the Alcohol

 

 

 

 

This glorious rye-scented "perfume" has sweet, crisp notes in the nostrils.  It is one of the best and longest lasting perfumes on the market, as it also comes out your pores the next day.  May also be accompanied by bad-decision making, feeling the unstoppable urge to fight people, and a skull rattling hangover. 

 

 

 

Nothing makes for a better pillow for sleeping off the hooch than someone else's crotch.

 

 

 

 

 

Hockey Night In Winnipeg

 

 

 

 

This grand prize includes some cool Jets swag and two tickets to see the Jets play at MTS Centre!  Great seats - Section 222, Row 1, Seats 1&2.  Completely unobstructed view of the entire ice!  Go Jets Go!

 

 

 

Think Geek

 

 

 

 

This white 16GB iPad 3 was donated by M Group Chartered Accountants LLP and SignalPoints (formerly Envision Technology).  Candy Crush looks even more dazzling on the beautiful retina display!

 

 

 

 

Up and At Them!

 

 

 

 

Take a romantic and relaxing hot air balloon ride for 2 with Sundance Balloons!  Eric and I were lucky enough to go on a hot air balloon ride and it was really amazing.  Such a neat experience and really awesome views, with a glass of champagne after the flight.  Would definitely recommend this to anyone!  Except people with a fear of heights, I guess.

 

 



 

You don't realize how huge they are until you're standing next to it as they blow it up!

 

 

Great view and super relaxing.

 

 

 

 

Kitchen Party

 

And for the aspiring chefs and kitchen junkies....

 



 

 

Cuisinart toaster, blender, and salt/pepper shakers!

 

 

KitchenAid Food Processor!

 

 

KitchenAid Slow Cooker!

 

We also have some sweet add-ons to these prizes, including a huge set of white serving dishes so you can display your delicious concoctions in style, as well as cookbooks and more!

 

 

 

 

Let's Have A Fire

 

 

 

 

This awesome backyard steel firepit was graciously donated by Bestway Fence Systems (thanks Donna and Denny!).  We're going to make a sweet "snuggle" package out of this including Bestway swag, fleece blankets, insulated mugs, and a free introduction to whoever wins the gigantic bottle of rye, to begin the start of a beautiful friendship.

 

 

 

A Girl's Best Friend

 

 

My personal favorite is this gorgeous diamond necklace, with a retail value of $1,300.  Ladies, the photo (even with hipstery instagram filter) does not do this stunner justice.  The sparkle factor is huge!  Sigh.....love.

 

 

 

Attraction to sparkly things.  It's one of the 24 similarities between women and fish.

 

 

 

Show Me The Money

 

And just in case you're someone who none of these prizes appeal to, you don't want to spend time ripping up all those little tickets, and you're going to be too drunk to carry out a big basket of goodies at the end of the night, we also have a prize of $1,000 in cold hard cash.

 

 

Rock on.

 

 

 

There are still LOTS more prizes to be announced, so stay tuned!

 

So if you don't have tickets yet to this super social happening at Greendell Community Centre on November 16th, send me a message to set some aside for you now!  They are really starting to move fast so get yours ASAP.  Also I have to send out a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us thus far, either by donating a prize or buying tickets.  Also a huge thank you to our wonderful wedding party for helping us with the social, my awesome MOB for designing a cupcake menu of over 20 (yes, twenty) flavors, and my amazing amazing amazing FOB for working so hard at gathering social prizes for us.  We love you all so much!

 

 

Happy Wedding Wednesday!!!

 

 

 

~M

 

 









Wedding Party....Party.

This past weekend, Eric and I held a get together for our family and wedding party at his family’s beach house in St. Laurent.  The objective of this party was simple – get all our important people in one place so they can get to know each other and have some fun in a relaxed environment, before all the stress of the wedding sets in.  Having been a bridesmaid four times, I know that it’s not as simple as showing up and putting on a taffeta dress.  There is a lot to contribute to, work on, plan, and pay for when you are in a wedding party, and one of our major goals with our wedding is to make it as easy and enjoyable experience as possible for the people who are helping us with our big day.  And what better way to start that off than to ply them with food, booze and good times?

 

 

Because it’s just not as fun if everyone hates you at the end of it.

And everyone did get to know each other famously!  Here are some highlights from the weekend:

We love a good beach party.  We played ladderball in the street, drove some golf balls into the water, and set off fireworks after dark in the sand.  We had a bonfire, blared some sweet tunes, and were loud and obnoxious well into the night – things you just can’t do in the city.  Fun times!

 

 

Go FOB!

 

 

The view from just off the back of the house. 

If you serve it, they will drink.  No matter how much alcohol we purchase for these events, it is always gone by the end of the night.  Especially when we release the Kraken, a delicious black spiced rum that is a wedding party favorite.  As with the engagement party, the 40 of Kraken did a disappearing act pretty fast, and everyone started feeling quite jovial around dusk.  Increasingly fun times!

 

 

But why is all the rum gone?!?

We have (almost) mastered the escalation scale.  And what is the escalation scale you ask?  Well allow me to explain.  At any given time during a party, your level of drunkenness should not exceed the acceptable limit as outlined on the escalation scale.  I will allow my friend Barney Stinson to illustrate.

 

 

So for example, if it is 9:00pm, you should not be drunker than Point A.  Then moving further down the scale around 11:30pm, you should not be drunker than Point B.  If you are ahead of the escalation scale, you will likely pass out too early and miss out on fun times.  If you are behind the escalation scale, everyone will be having more fun than you and you will be the last one up, sad and alone.  It’s a fine art to tow the line, but I was impressed with how well our wedding party stood up to the task.  It’s a good thing knowing that the people that are charged with helping you with your social and wedding are going to be functional enough to carry out any duties they might have, BEFORE they end up barfing on the deck.

Never try to cook bacon on the barbeque.  And I’m just going to leave it at that.

We have a great group of friends and family.  Jokes aside, I couldn’t be happier with who we have chosen to be in our wedding party and I am really excited to get rolling with the social and wedding planning over the next 12 months.  I feel like our time as an engaged couple is flying by and we are about to get right into the thick of it!  It feels comforting to know that we have so many people supporting us, and now they all know each other a little bit better.  :)

 

 

Nothing says “get to know you” better than a group shotgun.

Happy Wedding Wednesday!!!

~M