Love is brewing: Somebody's getting married!

Engagement party where coffee, tea and love is brewing!

Somebody get some flowers, somebody get a ring, somebody get a chapel and a choir to sing, somebody get an organ to play . . .

 'Cause somebody's getting married today!

That "somebody" is my daughter and tea biz partner, Rachel and her fiancé, Sean.  And, although the wedding isn't today -  it will be in the fall of 2020 - we did kick off the event with an engagement party last month.

Sean and Rachel are the somebodies getting married!

When my children were little, (Rob, Matt, and the bride-to-be), we had the soundtrack album from the movie "Muppets Take Manhattan". There's a song on that record, played on a turntable (wasn't vintage yet), that seemed to dominate the playlist, "Somebody's Getting Married". It was a favorite to dance to. We have videos of our three youngsters (approximately 6, 4 and 2, respectively) "dancing" (i.e., mostly running around) to this tune sung by the Muppet cast at the wedding of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog.

Rob, Rachel, cousin Marti, and Matt, circa Muppet's album dancing days

I share all of this because when Sean proposed to Rachel back in June of this year, (in Yellowstone National park), the tune "Somebody's Getting Married" reeled back at warp speed from my memories. I thought of my now-engaged- twenty-something daughter when she was as toddler, in the family room, shifting from one chubby little foot to the other, head cocked to the left while her brothers ran in circles to the backbeat of the Muppet's choir.

Fast forward to November, 2019, and my husband, Chris and I hosted a "Desserts and Bubbly" party to toast the engaged couple. We had sparkling wine, TOST, and, of course, a coffee and tea station, where "Love was Brewing".  (No event is complete without tea!).

Over cupcakes, doughnuts, brownies, chocolate-covered strawberries, s'more cakes, pumpkin tortes and nanaimo bars, guests toasted the young couple's engagement and upcoming wedding. 

Bridesmaids, photo bombed by wedding officiator and godfather, Ed.

Family and friends brought well-wishes and advice. Some brought gifts wrapped in robin-egg-blue boxes wrapped with white satin bows and some passed along family heirlooms.  A special in the latter category was a padded hanger, embellished and customized over the years, from Sean's grandmother who received it from her grandmother. It's purpose is to hold the wedding gown and what a special job that is.

From Sean's grandmother, the heirloom wedding hanger to hold the bridal gown 

The wedding details are still being worked on, but the bridesmaids, (cousin Marti is one!) and best men have been secured (including the "running dancers", Rob and Matt), the officiator selected (my brother and Rachel's godfather, Ed), day of coordinator aka "HBIC", Sandy,  (Ed's wife and Rachel's godmother) and the venue has been reserved. 

Somebody's getting married and the mother-of-the bride can hardly wait!

There will be a lot to do in the upcoming months, but what fun will be had for this joyous occasion.  

To quote the Cookie Monster, "Me can hardly wait!"