The Ryndex

While I’m dwelling on the past, I just thought I’d share the shower invitation we used this summer for a rocking wedding shower. I thought it was kind of funny.

THE PARTICULARS

Sunday, July 3rd, at 2PM.
Arzoo XXX
12345-123 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
(780) 234-1234

THEME

Nuclear retro-homemaker happiness (frilly aprons, pearls, pink coconut cake, spatulas and advice on using an upright vaccuum).

POTLUCK

Little nibbly things from the dusty old cookbook in the shelf — bring a little something to munch on! We’ve had an offer of a jello mold, which is exactly in the right direction. Other good ideas include finger sandwiches, hairy coconut balls and cocktail weiners, and all manner of things skewered with toothpicks.

If you’re bringing something, let us all know in your comment! That way we can balance the sweet versus the savoury.

By the way, if you’re travelling or don’t have cuisining facilities available, don’t worry about bringing something. We’ll be judging you on your feather-dusting capabilities, not on your petit fours. And you can always bring a bottle or two of “Wifey’s Little Helper”, if you know what I mean…

GENDERS

Apparently D socializes with the boys as well as the girls, so this wedding shower is enthusiastically unisex. Bring your dingle and/or your hoo-hah if you have ‘em!

FOR THE BRIDE-TO-BE

We’re going to decorate a three ring binder, and put together a Wife’s Handbook as a keepsake. This is the chance to use all that scrapbooking crap you bought when you expected your life to deliver a few happy memories! Anything can go in the book, so bring along:

1. Your favourite recipes or drink mixes (such as gramma’s pineapple sponge upside-down Rolo™ cornflake cake).
2. Household tips (such as “instead of buying a waffle iron, carefully consider your reasons for wanting waffles.”)
3. Suggestions on how to please your man (such as “after a hard days work, comfy slippers can double as an effective ball gag”).
4. and expecially a good mix CD. Stick it in an envelope pasted to the page. You don’t want me to be choosing the music for this shower. I mean it.
5. Photographs of D and/or M, drawings of D in wedding gear, old notes you passed between each other, anything goes. Use those pinking shears and glitter paint — this is for life!

RÉPONDEZ S’IL-VOUS PLAÎT

If you’d like to participate, leave your name in the comments below, along with:

1. How many people,
2. What you’d like to bring to the potluck,
3. Any ideas for nuclear retro-homemaker happiness games that might be appropriate, and
4. You know, whatever.

And a good time was had by all.