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In my last post I wrote that my new SIL gifted me with a really sweet gift that made me laugh and cry. She was gifted a similar basket at her bridal shower and was thoughtful enough to share it with me.
It is a basket of different colored candles, with a poem instructing the bride-to-be when to burn them throughout her married life.
I held it together until I read about burning the red candles to celebrate promotions. Mr. Barrettes works so hard and I appreciate all the time and effort he puts into his career and our future. Followed by burning the purple ones on the birth of our baby?! Ugly-face tears, I tell you!!!
See! Not cute! But I’m sharing with you ladies because I want to to know what I’m dealing with here! The frequency with which I’ve been crying is directly related to the amount of time we have left until our wedding. All these emotions! I’m usually more composed! I’m not quite sure how I’m going to react on the actual day. Waterproof mascara will be my friend.
Did you receive a tear-jerker shower gift?
Oh my gosh– that totally made me tear up (at work! ugh!) That is such a great gift idea, I love meaningful gifts you can always remember. 
That’s such a sweet gift. I love that it’s good at reminding you to celebrate milestones in your relationship
This is a wonderful idea!
My friends and family gifted me a Tastebook. That is, they all sent in recipes to my MOH, and she sent them to a company to be printed and bound. My Mom wrote a very, very touching forward. Oh yes. I cried.
One of my friends loves candy, so when she got married, I changed up the words and used differnent colored candies instead of candles - not that you’d want to eat candies in 25 years, but it’s the thought that counts - and there were definitely tears! So cute, and economical - candles or candy!
That is the sweetest thing ever. I would have lost it as well!
So cute! I did something similar for my sister, but it was bottles of wine. It had a similar poem and everything. I bawled reading it to her at her shower. I love sentimental things like that.
Amazing! I can’t wait for one of my friends to get married so I can give this to her!!
I’ve never seen this before but - WOW!! - absolutely beautiful.
I plan to give someone this as a shower gift for sure!! Absolutely amazing!
I had tears running down my cheeks as I read this!!! I am definitely saving this idea!
P.S. What is it about getting married that turns us all into crybabies??
When my cousin was married last year, my sister found this poem and we read it to our dear cousin. A few months later when we celebrated younger sister’s wedding, we read the poem and have decided to use this poem as our “family tradition”. Very sweet!
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Mrs. Barrettes, Tumon, Guam/Napa, CA Age and Occupation: 29, Dancer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Licensed Building Contractor Engagement Date: November 16, 2008 Wedding Date: October 2010 Venue: V. Sattui Winery About Me: I'm an East Coast girl, living on a tiny little island in the Pacific, twirling, leaping, and shimmy-ing my way through life, and now, wedding planning! I'm equal parts nerdy and cool... okay, mostly nerdy. I love satin bows, red lipstick, black & white graphic anything, the shine of sequins and the sound of a champagne "pop". My favorite books are The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, and Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I can also conjure a pretty good Patronus Charm. I started my appreciation for good red wine while traveling on the high seas, and it's only fitting that my passion for wine drinking led me to my Napa-bred honey. We bonded over bottles of Cabernet on my oceanfront porch and haven't looked back since. We're sealing the deal at a winery in the Napa Valley on a 'perfect ten' of a day!
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