We had a great time today at Hannah's Bridal shower!! Here are some of the details on the games that we played. The first game that we played is called the he said/she said game. Where you have to guess if the Bride or the Groom answered the questions that I read. I had Hannah and Kyle come over yesterday and then I questioned them seperately for their own answers to various questions. Some were really hard for them to come up with answers for... but there were a couple that they had the same answers on.
If you thought that Kyle answered the question you held up a mustache. If you thought Hannah said it you held up a flower. I was very nervous that everyone was going to get every question correct, and that I wasn't going to have enough questions to determine a winner so I grilled Hannah and Kyle with over 30 questions. It turns out that we ended up playing two rounds of the game, and we only got threw about 15 questions!! So for those of you that are interested in all of the questions and all of their answers here are the questions I asked them:
1.
The first
thing that attracted you to your mate?
Kyle: Myspace picture
Hannah: Personality
2.
What was
your first date?
Kyle: Haunted House
Hannah: Haunted house
3.
What were
you nervous about on your first date?
Kyle: Getting lost – finding the house
Hannah: It being arkward and that we wouldn’t get
along as well as we did when we were online.
4.
Where do you
see the two of you in 5 years?
Kyle: Married, getting ready to have our second
kid.
Hannah: Married, in a house, thinking about starting
a family.
5.
Where do you
see the two of you in 20 years?
Kyle: Lounging on our beachside house in North
Carolina
Hannah: Kyle a rich CFO, and Hannah being a trophy
wife drinking sangria.
6.
Where do you
see the two of you in in 50 years?
Kyle: Helping plan our grandkids wedding.
Hannah:
Retired, and traveling the world.
7.
What I am
looking forward most about the wedding is?
Kyle: Taking photographs and making memories.
Hannah: The party
8.
What I am
looking most forward about the honeymoon is?
Kyle: Scuba diving.
Hannah: Spending two weeks in a tropical place with
my love.
9.
What I love
the most about my mate is?
Kyle: Laughing and playing video games together.
Hannah: caring ways and always wanting to make me
happy.
10.
Once we are
husband and wife, I am looking most forward to?
Kyle: Buying a house and having kids.
Hannah: Spending life together.
11.
One thing
that really impresses me about my mate is?
Kyle: Intelligence.
Hannah: Work ethic
12.
I really
hope our children inherit my mates trait?
Kyle: Eyes
Hannah: Math skills
13.
I knew this
was the person I would be with forever when?
Kyle: When we both wanted the same video game.
Hannah: When we went through college together.
14.
If I won a
million dollars, the first thing I would do is...
Kyle: Buy a house.
Hannah: Pay off all my bills.
15.
When I get
home from work, the first thing I do is...
Kyle: Change into comfortable clothes.
Hannah: Change into PJs
16.
If your mate
was a superhero what would their special power be?
Kyle: X-ray vision
Hannah: Geographical skills.
17.
The funny
thing I say all the time is?
Kyle: What’s up Jack?
Hannah: Add jack to the end of everything.
18.
I would rather
eat ______ than _________
Kyle: Steak than spaghetti
Hannah: dessert than real food
19.
What is your
favorite gift your mate has gotten you?
Kyle: My ring
Hannah: Engraved necklace
20.
What are your
expectations of marriage?
Kyle: Free time and sharing a bank account.
Hannah: Mutual respect, communication, and compromise.
21.
Where is the
one place you have to travel together?
Kyle: Hawaii
Hannah: Hawaii
22.
What is the
most fun thing the two of you have done together?
Kyle: Traveling all around the area to see haunted
houses.
Hannah: Engagement night at the couples suite.
23.
If you two
have a fight, who has to fix it?
Kyle: Kyle
Hannah:
Kyle
24.
What is the
best thing that you can cook?
Kyle: Cheesy mashed potatoes
Hannah: Parmasean chicken
25.
What is your
favorite type of drink?
Kyle: mountain dew
Hannah: sangria
26.
What is your
favorite song/artist?
Kyle: Dubstep
Hannah: Breaking Benjamin
27.
What is the
chore that you dread doing the most?
Kyle: cleaning the cat box
Hannah: dishes
28.
What is your
favorite “Date” restaurant?
Kyle: The Melting Pot
Hannah: The Melting Pot
How many children do you
want?
Kyle: 2
Hannah: 2
29.
When do you
want to start having kids?
Kyle: 5 to 7 years.
Hannah: 5 to 7 years
30.
I was very
shy when?
Kyle: Meeting for the first time.
Hannah: I first met my mates family
31.
My favorite
memory of the two of us is?
Kyle: Driving back and forth from Chicago talking
the whole time with no radio on.
Hannah: The night we got engaged.
The next game that we played was each table had to decorate a bride with toliet paper. They had 5 minutes to come up with the best wedding dress that they could create. Here are the pictures of some of our brides.
Everyone did very well, and it was really interesting to see how all of the different dresses turned out. But in the end... Hannah selected her winner!!
The last game that we played was one that could only have been conducted by a best friend. We played the RIGHT and LEFT game. I wrote a story about Hannah and Kyle's relationship and everytime that I said the word RIGHT or LEFT the woman had to pass their prize to the person on either the right or left of them. Here is the story that I wrote below:
"Due to the fact that Hannah and Kyle have been dating for
about 20 years… you might not believe me when I say that it actually took
Hannah quite some time to find her Mr. RIGHT. No, really it’s true. When we were in middle school and high
school, I was always dumb founded by the fact that Hannah didn’t have a
boyfriend. She was so pretty and smart, it just didn’t make sense to me… I
guess I realize it now, she was waiting to meet her husband.
So how did she happen to meet Mr. RIGHT? Myspace. That’s right…
before everyone LEFT Myspace
for Facebook, it was really the RIGHT
place to go to meet new people. Kyle was
browsing through girl’s profiles and clicked RIGHT onto Hannah’s. He then
sent her a message, and once she read it she replied RIGHT away “Do I know you?”
From there… it was history in the making.
I remember their first date.
I was baby sitting Sam while they went out to a haunted house. Kyle drove RIGHT past Hannah’s house.
He had to call her to get directions when he was halfway down the
street. He made a LEFT turn into a neighbors house and turned around. That was date one.
I’m not sure if Hannah knew RIGHT away that Kyle was Mr. RIGHT. But I remember when I knew… Pretty sure it was their second date... I was out a haunted house with them, and Kyle
bought Hannah and me a hot chocolate.
And I was like… OH yeah… RIGHT there… he’s the one. I was like guuuurl you better snatch him up
quick. From what I remember, and correct
me if my memory isn’t RIGHT. But I believe that Hannah and Kyle didn’t
rush into anything RIGHT away, they got to know each other and gradually
started dating. But once they did start
dating I remember that they celebrated every anniversary that could possibly
come up. We’ve been dating 1 month now…
we’ve been dating two months now…
However, I think they’ve LEFT
off with that now. I don’t know guys,
does the monthly celebrations stop after 5 years?? I’m only teasing, obviously they did
something RIGHT to be dating this
long. Which… Hannah and Kyle continued
to date RIGHT through high
school. Then we all LEFT for college together.
I’m pretty sure that Kyle and I decided that Bowling Green
was the RIGHT college for us to go
to, because Hannah was going there. And
I’m pretty sure that Hannah thought it was the RIGHT college, because it was RIGHT
by her grandma’s house… But in
hindsight, I think that BG was actually the RIGHT choice. Hannah and I
knew RIGHT away that we wanted to
room together in college, and Kyle knew that he wanted to live RIGHT down the
hall from us. I think he left his room
most of the day, and hung out in our room.
But during the weekend nights… all bets were off, because Hannah, Steph,
and I always LEFT him to go out
dancing. I’m sure that as soon as we LEFT to go downtown, Kyle probably went
RIGHT over to his fraternity house to hang out with his friends. But Kyle was always a good sport, and once he
had a car in BG he always LEFT the
house to come pick us up at night when it was time to come home.
It didn’t take long for Kyle to move RIGHT out of the dorms, and into his own apartment. Once there, Hannah and Kyle fulfilled their
wish of getting two sugar gliders. This
was probably the RIGHT way to test out
their parenting skills together. And I
can say from experience that I believe Kyle will be a very good dad from that
experience. He never LEFT those sugar gliders wanting
anything, and he always took really good care of them.
The college years LEFT
a really big impression on us all. I
think that we all had a lot of fun together, and I know that Hannah and Kyle
had their first tastes of living together soon.
Their relationship was probably put to the test the most
when Hannah LEFT Bowling Green and
started going to UT for nursing school.
During this time they didn’t live RIGHT
down the hall from each other, and at times there would be a lot of time in between
when they could see each other. But time
flies RIGHT by and they were closing
in on their graduation days.
Now Hannah and Kyle had talked before about the RIGHT time to get engaged. And they had mentioned that after Kyle
graduated from his masters program would be the RIGHT time. So it’s no
wonder that Kyle was able to surprise her with his proposal RIGHT before either of them had
graduated with their undergrad. The
first step was going out and finding the RIGHT
ring. And since he couldn’t find one, he
had one customize designed.
Then he had to plan the RIGHT
way to do it, and he decided to try to trick her. He messaged her and told her that they should
go out for a romantic dinner at Rosie’s Italian Grill in Toledo. When she asked him what he wanted to do after
dinner, he thought that the RIGHT
response was to tell her that they would go to see a movie to throw her
of. When they LEFT the restaurant they went back to Bowling Green. When they got back home, Hannah decided that
she didn’t feel like going to a movie… and Kyle told her RIGHT away “We are going”
Once they got into the car, he told her to close her eyes and he tied a
blindfold around her eyes. Hannah knew RIGHT away that something was up. He drove her to their destination and led her
RIGHT up a long flight of
stairs. Once they reached the top and
got into a room, Kyle told her to take her blind fold off. She opened her eyes to see a spacious suite,
a king sized bed covered in rose petals, champagne, a dozen roses, and Kyle had
dropped RIGHT down on his LEFT knee in front of her. After a sweet and mushy moment he asked her
if she would marry him. She was in shock
by everything that had happened so she didn’t answer RIGHT away, but once she did… you obviously know the answer. She knew that he was Mr. RIGHT so the only RIGHT
answer to his question was Yes. RIGHT away they took a dozen pictures,
and made even more phone calls, but they never LEFT their suite all night.
They enjoyed the wonderful suite for the night and celebrated
together. I believe the Facebook quote
says it all “The best night of my life to date.”
After Kyle graduated from graduate school, he LEFT Bowling Green and moved in with
Hannah in Strongsville. Together they
have lived together for about a year. It
wasn’t RIGHT away, but it didn’t take
them very long to get a little bitty kitten together. Much wedding planning has consumed their time
over the past year or two. But after all
of this time the only step LEFT to
complete their happily ever after, and that is to finally getting married to
each other. Which they will be doing in
the RIGHT way by having a wonderful
wedding in front of all of their friends and family. Just think in less than 2 months from now
Hannah is going to walk RIGHT down
the aisle and finally marry her Mr. RIGHT,
and then they will become Mr. and Mrs. Right together."
I wish that I had a picture of the hug Hannah and I shared afterwards. I think we were both teary eyed, and it was a really nice moment. I think it was a great way to end the shower, and I'm glad that we included it in.
