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Mrs. Hydrangea, Dallas Age and Occupation: 26, Administrative Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Network Analyst Engagement Date: June 2007 Wedding Date: September 2008 Blogging Since: January 14, 2008 Venue: Catholic Church and Reception at The W Hotel About Me: Mr. H and I come from very different cultures and backgrounds so I'm excited to plan our wedding with a balance of both traditions. My mom has always been a DIY queen, and I'm just now starting to get into it with a new house and a wedding to plan!
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FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower!

September 10th, 2008 @ 9:32 am by Mrs. Hydrangea

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.

FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower! :  wedding bridal shower RockwalYUM - 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 :) ).

FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower! :  wedding bridal shower Rockwal01Mom 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)!

FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower! :  wedding bridal shower Rockwal02
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!

FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower! :  wedding bridal shower Rockwal03We’ll call it “Hot Bouquet”FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower! :  wedding bridal shower Rockwal04You 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!

FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower! :  wedding bridal shower Rockwal05I’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?

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6 Responses to “FMIL Hydrangea Throws Me a Shower!”

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Becky

Hubs and I don’t come from different backgrounds… but I just had to comment and say I’m drooling over the thought of tres leches cake now.
:) becky

 
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Miss Hot Cocoa (message)  2,077 posts, Buzzing bee

Tres leches cake. Yum. Did you save me a slice?!

 
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karen

My in-laws are mexican while my parents are chinese so there is some language barrier between us. Our families have only met 2-3 times since we live in NY. The times we did visit hubby’s parents in TX, we sure had a lot of fun eating BBQ.

 
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missteaberry

All-Clads are so great to cook with! Whoever you gave you that must really love you!

 
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Miss Avocado

FMIL and I barely spoke when I was in Poland. I hope that I can begin catching her off guard with my Polish soon!

 
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Wrapped and Ready to Fill » Weddingbee » The Wedding Blog

[...] past weekend, after my second shower, Mom H and one of my bridesmaids came over to help me with the (not so exciting) task of cutting [...]

 

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Mrs. Hydrangea
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Mrs. Hydrangea, Dallas Age and Occupation: 26, Administrative Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Network Analyst Engagement Date: June 2007 Wedding Date: September 2008 Blogging Since: January 14, 2008 Venue: Catholic Church and Reception at The W Hotel About Me: Mr. H and I come from very different cultures and backgrounds so I'm excited to plan our wedding with a balance of both traditions. My mom has always been a DIY queen, and I'm just now starting to get into it with a new house and a wedding to plan!

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