Ms. Dahlia, Detroit/Cleveland
Age and Occupation: 24, PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, IT System Administrator
Engagement Date: December 31, 2006
Wedding Date: May 2008
Blogging Since: September 19, 2007
Venue: United Methodist Cathedral & historic downtown hotel in Cleveland
About Me: I enjoy cooking, dancing and swimming. I am a geek and apply game theory to my everyday life. Winter is my favorite time of year, especially when spent curled up with good coffee and a book by Madeleine L'Engle.
Shower Surprise!
April 7th, 2008 @ 2:11 pm by Ms. Dahlia
No, I didn’t have a surprise shower- living in Michigan with a wedding in Cleveland, it would not have been possible for the shower planners to make it a surprise shower.
Instead, my mom (and Mr. Dahlia) conspired to bring a shower surprise. I drove into town on Friday for a dress fitting, with a hair and makeup trial and shower on Saturday. I was up late chatting with my parents, but decided around midnight that it was time to head to bed since the next day was going to be busy.
I call Mr. Dahlia (as I typically do) as I crawl into bed, and he is Mr. Chatty that night- I assume that he was highly caffeinated and was up late playing video games, which he does from time to time when I’m out of town and he’s home by himself.
And then my mom calls me to come downstairs. It’s 1:15am. I’m exhausted, cold and in my pajamas. And who is there waiting for me?
Mr. Dahlia, who’d driven in from Michigan to pick up my best friend (and maid of honor) in the whole wide world at the airport. She, who lives in Boston and told me that she wouldn’t be able to make it into town that weekend. She, with whom I had been playing phone tag for over a month, and from whom on Thursday I received a voicemail saying that she’d try and talk with me on Saturday.
I was shocked. And speechless.
How have you been surprised in regards to your wedding?
4 Responses to “Shower Surprise!”
Yay for Mr Dahlia! What a sweetheart– and looking very snappy, too.
For our US make-it-legal ceremony, mr beanchar had a local florist re-create the bouquet of flowers he had given me on the night we got engaged.
He did it all through pictures and phone calls since we were having the ceremony at a friend’s house out of town. He snuck it into the house and I didn’t see the it until I walked into the living room at the start of the ceremony and there it was on the mantel. It was a little thing, but it gave such a nice sense of closing the circle (we were engaged for 39+ months!)
Can a put in a plea for a beeTV broadcast from Team Dahlia sometime soon? You guys are so fun. 
totally unrelated but i have that same afgan in pink…
I was a BM in a wedding last year and the groom arranged for another long-distance BM and I to secretly fly in for the bride’s local B-party. She was so shocked, and so happy!
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