June 8, 2012 ~ Grooms Dinner and Bachelorette Party (Round 2)

     The grooms dinner was the night before the wedding, Jun 8th, at the wigwam chapel in the Relief Society Room and it was really nice. Sally did a wonderful job with cute decorations, good food and fun activities. It was amazingly good pulled pork burritos, café Rio style, with a salsa bar, fun lemonade in mason jars with stripped straws and blackberries for decoration, chocolate covered strawberries, brownies cut in the shape of hearts with white chocolate drizzled over them, little chocolate cups with fruit in them and bunt cake!! We wanted it to be cute, small and more intimate so we had only Lucas’s immediate family and only my immediate family and my grandparents. I am glad we kept it small because the toasts were sensitive and meaningful, with the shedding of some tears, and we were able to play a fun game and some knock-out. Oh and Sally surprised Lucas and I with fun shirts so Lucas got a black shirt that had Groom written in white and I got a white shirt that had Bride written in black, it was so fun to be matching and was perfect for our bachelor/bachelorette parties right after the grooms dinner.

We started off going around the table and saying some interesting things about ourselves. Lucas started it off saying that an interesting thing about himself is that he has gone without sneezing for 4 months straight and that the only reason he broke that record is because one night he woke up in the middle of the night to a sneeze! That was hard to beat because that was pretty interesting so I mentioned how I had never had an ingrown toenail and that a couple of months ago it was brought to my attention, by Lucas, that I pronounce the word pronunciation wrong. From there everyone went around the table and said something interesting, then it was food time!! While we were eating a toast was first given by Sam, Lucas’s groomsman. Then a toast was given by Diana, my maid of honor. It was really sweet that Diana gave a toast for me and she listed off some of the qualities she thought I have that would make me a good wife. Then a toast was given by Sally and my dad. Then we wrapped up the toasts with one from Lucas and I.

After the toasts finished up we had some of the delicious dessert and then it was game time!! For the game Sally had Lucas and I sit in chairs with our backs facing each other so we couldn’t see one another but we were also blindfolded just in case. Then she had us trade shoes, so I had my shoe in one hand and Lucas’s shoe in the other hand. She read off some questions and whoever we felt matched the questions the best we raised that shoe. For example, who has the best fashion sense? Lucas and I both raised my shoe and we got that one correct. Sally gave Luc and Jac squirt guns and they squirted us with water on the questions we got wrong. It was a really fun game and it was funny to see what we agreed on and what we didn’t. I thought it was funny because one of the questions we didn’t agree on was who instigated the first kiss…I thought it was an easy question because Lucas instigated it but apparently he thought I did.

 

The one request Lucas had with the grooms dinner was that we could play knock out or some type of active game. So, after dessert and getting squirt with water, we all went into the gym and played Knock out!! After knock out, while we were all cleaning up, Dad decided to make a little wager with everyone. We all got one shot at half court. If they made it, they would win $500. Everyone shot, and missed. Upon hearing about this wager, I ran to the room where Lucas was cleaning up, grabbed his arm and ran him to the gym to attempt a shot. Lucas, unaware of the amount of money on the line, stepped up to half court mark ,shot it, and nailed it! 500 dollars richer baby!

The grooms dinner was everything I wanted it to be and it was fun!! Since we did the grooms dinner the night before the wedding and since the night was still young Lucas had his bachelor party and I had my bachelorette party (round 2) with all of the friends that were in town for the wedding. Lucas and the boys (my brothers, Erik Bonn and Sam) all went to go bowling and all the girls (Aubrey Makanoa, Taralyn, Liz, Kat, Hayley, Chelsea, Dalein, Anna and Diana) went to see a chick flick, "The Lucky One" with Zac Efron in it! It was a total chick flick that is for sure and it was so fun seeing it all of my girl best friends…but of course all I could think about was Lucas and how I got to marry him in almost 12 hours!!