FIESTA Bridal Shower!

June and July have been full of great celebrations!  I was in charge of my sisters bridal shower, since she loves Mexican Food, I thought it would be fun to throw a Fiesta!

 We were going to leave it as a bridal shower, but then we realized how many people were going to be traveling from out of town.  So we broadened it to include a bridal shower and a grooms party!  It turned out to be a GREAT party!

Every great party has to start with an invitation right?  I designed this invitation with Photoshop.  It just goes to show you should never put funny pictures on Facebook, your sister might steal it and put a mustache on your fiance!  We got a lot of compliments on these funny invites!

No Fiesta Bridal Shower/Grooms party would be complete without Sombreros.  I made the bride and groom custom sombreros, using spray paint, netting, and flowers!  We also purchased dozen others (From Oriental trading) for guests to wear!

  No party would be complete without decorations!  My older sister Amber and I spent all day making tissue paper puffs for decorations.  These were fairly easy to make.

 You can find a complete tutorial for the tissue paper puffs from Martha HERE!  It is amazing what $10 in tissue paper will do! We had the shower at my parents beautiful home!

GAMES AND PRESENTS

We knew even though the boys were invited we still needed some girl time!  So to start off the shower the boys went in the basement to play pool and ping pong and watch the Three Amigos. While the girls stayed up stairs to play a couple games and open presents!

Our break the ice game was a game where everyone wrote a random fact about themselves, and the bride had to guess who it was.  If she didn't guess correctly that person got to ask her a question.  Alyssa is a Trivia buff, she really is kind of a nerd at heart, so we played a trivia game about Mexican Weddings. I scoured the internet for information on Mexican Weddings, and found a lot of interesting and fun traditions and facts. I simply gave the guests a piece of paper, asked the questions, and had them write down the answers! You can see the questions and answers in my google docs HERE. I think it was kind of fun, we all learned a lot, now I wish I could go to an actual Mexican Wedding, they know how to party!

FOOD

What would a Fiesta be without Food?  We had a lot of fun with the food, and really did not spend a whole lot of money! After the games and presents, we came together for some yummy food!

 

Menu:

Taco Bar

Pork Barbacoa

Beef (Ground beef with taco seasoning and onions)

Lettuce

Cheese

Sour Cream

Homemade Salsa, compliments of my sister Amber!

Homemade Guacamole, compliments of my sister Amber!

Homemade Crockpot Refried Beans

Homemade Flour Tortillas (From a local restaurant, they were actually about the same price as store 

                               bought tortillas, but tasted 1,000 times better!)

Homemade Corn Tortillas (Again from a local restaurant!)

Homemade Corn Chips (from local grocery store)

Fruit Salad

Dessert: Tres Leches Cake!

So really we kept things pretty simple food wise, but there was lot of it, and it was DELICIOUS! The food was made well ahead of time and kept warm in crock pots!

One of my favorite features was the tin foil pan dishes!  We bought them from Costa Vida for 25 cents each.  So for $12.50 we got 50 plates, not too bad, they looked cute, and worked great!

To drink we had bottled water, and soda, we also had water dressed up with maraschino cherries and limes!  I found the cutest Sombrero straws at Hobby Lobby, I had to have them!

For Dessert we had Tres Leches Cake, which was a huge hit! The cute pepper tooth picks I ordered from Oriental Trading.

SALSA DANCING!

The biggest hit of the party was the Salsa Dancing Lessons!  My cute cousin Sadey is on the Ball Room Dancing team at her high school and travels around the country dancing.  I recruited her to teach us how to shake our hips!

Everyone was a great sport, and it was so much fun!

I think Alyssa and Michael have a lot of Salsa Dancing in their future!

Pinata

To cap the party off, I thought it would be fun to have a Pinata! Since I am cheap, I could not imagine paying $20 for a Pinata, so I made my own... After my house and kids were covered with flour, water, and newspaper strips, I was having seconds thoughts!

 My son lovingly dubbed the pinata, the Alien Fish! It was certainly a Pinata you wanted to hit!  The kids had a lot of fun with the Pinata!

It was a great party!

For a great Couple!

I like to LINK to these great Parties!