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It Takes A Village  - And Lots Of Lists - To Do A Wedding Shower

5/17/2016

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        Last Saturday I co-hosted with the mother of the groom the bridal shower of Anusha, fiancee of my nephew Randy.
Randy and Anusha.
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Mary Jane, Randy's mom, with Anusha,  her mom Jaya, and the youngest shower guest.
     Me,  with my pre-shower lists.
    It's a known fact that I can't make it through the day without a list.  Planning a party takes at least half-a dozen,

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...progressively revised over time up to the day of the event,
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...complete with a schematic,
...which I use to set up the serving table the night before.
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      People are always asking me how I do it.  Anyway, that's how I do it.  With lists. Lots of lists.
      And, even more important when it comes to big-food bashes, lots of help.

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My daughter Claire, in from Chicago for the shower, helping dip strawberries the night before.
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     As always, the morning of the shower it was boots on the ground and hit the ground running to get the food ready for the 1 pm arrival of the guests.
      One of my awesome Posse members came over to help, here decorating cupcakes with Claire.
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   Anusha and Jaya setting out the strawberries,
...among other things,
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...including a work-of-art vegetable try brought by Randy's Aunt Susie,
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...here holding once again our very popular littlest lady while Mary Jane slices the stromboli.
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     Me stirring one of many pots,
...not to mention Tom in the background doing whatever needed to be done, including perpetually washing dishes, pots and pans.
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     And when the work was done,
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...the house, decorated as a balloon forest, ready for the guests,
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...the beautiful party favors set out, chocolate-dipped Oreos made by Mary Jane and bottles of lavender sugar scrub hand-made by
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Rachel, Randy's brother's fiancee,
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... the food ready,
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...and the guests arriving, 
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....the moment was finally at hand to stop working,
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...and start eating!
To be continued...
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