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So, as I reported in an earlier blog, I have 2 weddings and their respective showers this spring.  On Saturday I attended the first shower: Bonnie’s.  Bonnie was an intern at Heather’s Glen last year, and knows EVERYTHING there is to know about weddings.  She’s been planning her own wedding since about six months after meeting her future husband  

The shower was delightful.  The springtime theme was displayed with the pink tulips, plaid Easter-ey tablecloths, gerber daisies, and flower seed favors.  The tags attached to the zinnia seeds I picked up read: “Find a perfect garden plot / and plant these seeds in a sunny spot / so they may grow and bloom / as a reminder of the bride and groom.”  So sweet!

I have to report on Bonnie’s gift from her mother.  She received a pair of crystal Waterford Irish Coffee cups!  Because Bonnie and Chris don’t drink champagne, they’re opting to toast with Irish coffee at their wedding.  I love this because they’ll be serving a coffee bar at their wedding!  Such a great idea. 

Waterford Irish Coffee Pair

Love that crystal.  I’ll have more about wedding showers next week after hitting up Carolyn’s!

Friday night’s bride and groom shared a toast from a traditional German bridal cup.  You’ve never heard of that, you say?  I hadn’t either.  Let me retell the tradition I’ve unearthed (okay, googled), and then check out the pic. 

Centuries ago, in a faraway land called Nuernberg, there was a wealthy nobleman.  His daughter fell in love with a lowly goldsmith and wanted to marry him.  Well, Dad didn’t like that much, so he threw the goldsmith into a dark dungeon and continued to offer his daughter richer, more appropriate suiters.  According to the story, she got paler and paler as she longed for her beloved.  Her father finally relented, and offered a proposal, “If your goldsmith can make a chalice from which two people can drink at the same time without spilling one single drop, I will free him and you shall become his bride.”  He figured that he’d proposed the impossible.  Evidently, the goldsmith was determined and inspired by love, and skillfully created a masterpiece.  The cup is a sculpted girl, with a hollowed out skirt to serve as one cup, as the arms of the sculpture were raising a bucket that swivels so it can be filled swung towards the other drinker.  The two could drink from each end, without a drop spilled.  Here’s a pic of a traditional German bridal cup.

German Bridal Cup

Isn’t that sweet?  What will you toast with?