Weddingbee Blog

Last Saturday afternoon, FMIL Hydrangea and FSILs Hydrangea threw me a cute shower at a local hotel in our hometown. This shower was mainly for family members of Mr. H (he has a ginormous family) and a few of their close friends.

Mom H and BM H attended with me, and we all had a great time! I was a little nervous for my mother as she had not been to one of Mr. H’s family events before. Many of the women speak little English, and instead speak mainly Spanish. While I’m still a little shy to speak it, I pretty much understand just about everything they are saying and it still catches them off guard at times when I answer their Spanish in English.

We started off by eating, and man was it good! I forgot to take pics of the main spread, but it included ceviche, shrimp cocktail, fruits, veggies… yum yum yum! FMIL H also remembered my favorite cake and she bought a tres leches cake from this amazing Mexican bakery for us all to eat after we stuffed ourselves with seafood.

YUM - Tres Leches!

Then it was on to playing some fun games, where the girls split into teams to create toilet paper dresses. I got to be the judge (Mom H won ).

Mom H in her bridal gear!

The women also had to put napkins on tops of their heads to try to draw a pic of Mr. H and I (and those were some pretty hilarious drawings)!

After a quick game of “hot potato” played with a bouquet later, we were on to blowing up balloons to see who could blow one up the biggest—but there was a little trick being played on yours truly. FMIL H and FSILs H poked holes in my balloons, so each time I tried to blow them up, they popped. The first couple of times I really just thought that it was an accident, but by the last time I was so scared because I started to realize that they were perhaps playing a trick on me!

We’ll call it “Hot Bouquet”You can tell I was a little scared to blow another balloon up at this point!

We finished off the day with presents, and although the shower was small and quaint, Mr. H and I made out with some pretty amazing gifts!

I’m really happy that everything turned out well and that Mom H finally got to experience a little of Mr. H’s culture and got to know his family better.

Do you and your fiance come from different backgrounds? How did it go the first time that you introduced your family to you fiance’s culture?