Just a few weeks ago we had the surprise wedding shower for my cousin Nick and his fiance Joyce. All of us ladies in the wedding party decided on two themes- the color blue and hockey! Blue is Joyce’s favorite color and hockey because that is where they first met. I ended up leading the way for the decorations but I had some help. A few weeks before the party I had some of the ladies over for a decoration making party. It was really fun and it was the first time that I had designed things and then directed other people making them. It was a pretty cool experience as an artist. For a brief time I got to be an art director!

For the centerpieces I used mason jars filled with big bright flowers from a farmers market and tied a little blue ribbon around them. And to go along with the hockey theme we hand stamped their names on blue pennants.

Hockey Net Chair

Stick and Puck Garland

Zamboni with trailing cans

For the brides chair we made a hockey net with white crepe paper and blue fabric served as the ice. Around the bar we made a garland of paper hockey sticks and pucks. And on the sticks we wrote the grooms last name. For the main centerpiece I had this idea to buy a remote control Zamboni and make little tin cans trailing behind it. I was really happy with the toy (I had to test it out by playing with it, of course) and the tin cans came out really well. You can’t see it here but I wrote their names on the cans. The flour that we put on the “ice” at first looked like… well it looked like we were about to snort lines. But one of the ladies made some skate tracks in the ice and I think, maybe, it does not look so much like that anymore

Winged Hockey Pucks

Winged Puck Cake

Another one of my decoration ideas was the winged hockey puck. I was thinking about those winged hearts and also doves and came up with the hanging winged pucks. We made cardboard hockey pucks and then covered them with black electric tape and attached paper wings. Then another bridesmaid, Angie, took the idea and ran with it making this amazing cake above!

Everyone had a great time at the Shower! Congrats Nick and Joyce! Can’t wait for the wedding!