This weekend was the hen do of my best friend, Chloe. It was a lovely weekend, and I hope a good send off for Chloe into married life. The whole thing was a complete surprise for her. I enjoyed planning it but would have loved to have more time, it fell right before my deadlines and I now have the mouth ulcers to prove it.
Chloe is the kind of girl who people are drawn to, because of this I tried to incorporate all age groups into her day. It was about finding ways to communicate that all these ladies in her life are extremely valued by her.
We started on the Friday night with just the bridesmaids, this involved a trip to the beach for chips, the closed funfair and the arcades. I won more on the 2p machines than ever before! That night we stayed at one of the girls houses and watched many wedding themed chickflicks.
The next morning I got up early to go down to the venue and set up. We were staying at The Privett centre, an old school house in a tiny little village outside Petersfield. It sleeps 20 and was a perfect place to host this kind of thing.
We started with a little treasure hunt outside, we lost 10 of the 40 bags of sweets we were meant to find, so if your in the area there are Haribo waiting for you. We then invited everyone for a cream tea, there were about 40 of us. Mum and I had made all the scones the night before using my mother in laws recipe. We grew in respect for the 500 scones Matts mum had made for the wedding!
After the cream tea there was a time for people to make little cards and words of encouragement that would then be compiled and given to her. I didn't get to read many of them but they were certainly a testament to who Chloe is. She then did a Mr and Mrs Quiz as hosted by her soon to be sister in law. For each question she got wrong a volunteer would be blindfolded and get to facepaint Chloe.
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In the evening 15 of us ate together and then played games. One of these games was Sardines, for those of you not familiar with Sardines I'll explain the rules. Turn all the lights in the house off and ban torches. One person goes to hide whilst everyone else waits together counting to 100. When we reach 100 everyone splits up to find the hider. Once you find the person hiding you have to secretly hide with them until everyone else has found them. I guess it's called sardines because you end up feeling like packed sardines in a dripping shower cubicle or under a bed. This game is adrenaline pumping enough as it is, but on Saturday night one of the fire doors that opens onto the woods kept coming open. I think it was a slightly faulty latch but it was enough for us to need to hold hands and inspect the door together.
We spent most of the rest of the night dancing, Sarah of We Are Hairy People (check that link out!) made us all 'Chloe' Tshirts. We put them on and flash mobbed Chloe to 'Drop it like it hot'. Fun Fun Fun.
She was blindfolded the whole way here. Setting out on the treasure hunt in an old wedding dress. The result of the facepainting. The Hen tshirts! Pics 1&2 by Anna |
Thank you to everyone who came along, helped me plan and contributed their skills. I love you allllll! x
Thank you for the invite. Was a lovely afternoon and chloe looked very pretty x also the photos are lovely esther x
ReplyDeleteThis looks like SO SO much fun! I love all your ideas girl! xoxo Katie
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely day. You are awesome!
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