Weddingbee Blog

We just got our invitation for a pre-wedding-non-shower-dinner being thrown for us by a great friend! How no-fuss and old-school-git-’er-dun is this?! After Weddingbee and all the fanciness that is invitations, when’s the last time you saw something like this? I love it!!! It is sooo our friend!

Mr. P grew up in a wuuuunderful “village-town” in Virginia, just outside of Washington DC. It’s unincorporated, quaint, and full of history. As a teenager, he worked in a family friend’s restaurant, an absolutely charming little establishment in an old Victorian street front. Suzi, the proprietor, has since retired to her farm in Leesburg, but her daughter now runs the business.

Suzi spends her days tending to the farm, throwing parties, and cultivating her grandchildrens’ horse activities. (Theirs is a polo horse farm—not as pretentious as it sounds—and Suzi and her hubby are extremely down to earth people.) Their restaurant serves “creative American” and Southern regional cuisine (Suzi is from Tennessee and her husband is from southern Virginia). It’s warm, rustic, and full of mementos from their early American antique and polo activity collections.

When laid-back, energetic and very southern Miss Suzi decided she wanted to throw us the little party, she–in her resolute, exuberant, and no nonsense way–asked, “How about I throw you guys a little party? Some comfort food and mint juleps, that sort of thing…” Why, of course!!! And in true form, she sent out a quick, easy, and no-fuss invitation for a delicious little southern dinner at the restaurant.

With the exception of a couple date shifts (due to our families’–not Suzi’s–scheduling difficulties), it’s been a fantastically easy planning process (in contrast to the bridal shower). She just told us to send her a list of guests and to show up! I heart her so!!!

I can’t wait, and feel so touched and happy that Suzi and her husband are doing this for us!

Are you being thrown any casual showers or parties? What will they be like?