Now this post is long overdue, but not last saturday but the saturday before, Carly, Vanessa and I threw our good friend Julia and her fiance Jeremy, an engagement party. A space themed engagement party that is. And boy did we take that theme and run, or should I say sky rocket.
They've been engaged since February, so in true Carly-Vanessa-Julie fashion, we were behind and decided in September to throw a party. Then, in even more Carly-Vanessa-Julie fashion, the weekend before our party, we thought, gee, we should really get on the logistics. Of course it happened to be a crazy busy week for the three of us, and then to add this party on top, well we were all running around like chickens with our heads cut off. I was working with Carly on decor, games, etc, every night that week, and VK was smack dab in the middle of midterms. But apparently we do our best thinking and planning under the wire so in just 5 days, a few trips to the party store, 4 google docs, and 9 christmas ornaments-turned-to-planets later, we had the Bonino backyard turned into a gallactic outerspace experience - literally outer-space, we were outside since it was 80 that day.
Under our overhang, we had all nine planets-yes pluto is a planet for our party purposes-that carly pained on some Christmas ornaments-thank you K-Mart for reminding us Christmas is around the corner. We had delicious apps, some Martian margaritas, space toys spread throughout the space (no pun intended). It was an intimate crowd and group of people that we've known for years so it was the perfect opportunity for us to all catch up (even though we all pretty much live in a 15-minute (and that's pushing it) radius).
And what party of ours is complete without entertainment? We started out the crowd on a quick 9-question game with a questionarire that they complete with questions regarding Space and Julia & Jeremy. We then graded the test and gave them a glow-necklace with some planet pins that they got to keep on all night. And why stop the entertainment there? Since it was mostly our families and people who know us well, Carly, VK and I thought we would take this opportunity to show off our musical talents as a tribute to Julia. So we decided to take some space-y songs and mix them with one of Julia's favorites to create: Space Collaboration (copyright DJ Carly DeMarchena 2011). Imagine the opening sequence to 2001: A Space Oddessy and three girls walking (as if we were in space) with paper bags painted like space helmets on their heads. Still with me? Then add the beginning snippit to Space Jam (what we did for a talent show, back in the 4th or 5th day) with some sweet dance moves. Add the first verse to Men in Black (which Julia and VK were for halloween one year), with some lyrics specifically pertaining to Julia and Jeremy. And polish it up with a couple of verses (also new lyrics) from Backstreet Boy's, "The One". Nevermind the fact that out of the three of us, we couldn't even hit one note correctly, nevermind the fact that our dancing is somewhat elementary, nevermind the fact that it was dark out so people couldn't really see us (that was somewhat planned), we wowed the crowd.
Like I said it was great to catch up with everyone and it was a super fun night!
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