My bachelorette party was one wild night! I am so lucky to have so many awesome ladies who wanted to celebrate one last night out as a “single” lady with me!

The evening began with my fabulous sister, Rebecca, coming over and decorating the house. She planned this whole night with Jill and Shelly…they did a great job! They even kept it mostly a secret from me which was impressive.

For the first part of the evening, 10 of us met at Flex Appeal in Minneapolis for Pole Dancing Lessons!! Rebecca had told me I needed to wear yoga pants and so I figured we were doing pole dancing or belly dancing or something like that & it was confirmed a couple days prior to the party. We had a BLAST! Jill brought a pair of red high heel shoes for me to wear and I was able to wear them even with my sore foot. When the instructor asked if anyone wanted to wear some “stripper shoes,” my mom’s best friend Jayne was the first one to speak up and say yes. Once everyone had their shoes on and we were stretched out we learned how to walk around the pole, do some fancy turns and spin down the pole! It was crazy fun!!

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More pole dancing pictures can be found here.

After taking some group photos we headed back to the house. We played games and had food at our house before taking the party on the road. The games at the house included….

Get the carrot into the vase

Q&A with Chris and finally Pin the Cucumber on the Hunk

After games, I opened the mountain of gifts that the ladies had wrapped up for me. I think most of the gifts were for BOTH Chris & I but I was the only one sitting there opening them. It was fun to see what everyone had picked out for me!

We got a group photos before a few people had to leave and the rest of us piled into a limo.

More Games & Gifts photos can be found here.

I was totally surprised by the Limo! There were 14 of us piled into a 14 person limo which was cozy and fun! The first stop was the Dive Bar in Maplewood where KDWB was broadcasting live and we got a shout out over the airwaves!! When we first walked in Rebecca noticed the pole in the VIP area immediately. My first thought was “Thank goodness it’s in the VIP area, we can’t get up there” and about 10 minutes later Alicia recognizes a high school classmate who’s a bouncer and next thing you know, we’re in the VIP area and I am spinning on the pole! I think I finally gave in because I figured I already looked ridiculous so people would expect it from me!

There were some “dare” cards that got handed out and I think 3 or 4 of them were actually done. The first was for Kristen to find the guy in the bar who looked most like Chris. Kristen has that photo unfortunately. The second was a guy who had to propose to me…it was hilarious! The others I remember were to make fishy faces with me and to serenade me.

After the Dive Bar we hopped back into the Limo and drove back to Minneapolis where the plan was to go into Sneaky Pete’s (who also have a pole in the bar!) until the line was out the door and not moving.

Instead we went to Drink where I found myself in a “dance-off” with another bachelorette. It was dumb, but I went along with it because I didn’t want to be debbie downer.

More Limo & Bar photos can be found here.

THANK YOU to all the awesome ladies who came out to help me celebrate the end of my bachelorette status. Especially thank you to Rebecca, Jill and Shelly for all the planning!!!

Chris is also a lucky guy…the Saturday after my party he celebrated with 17 of his friends! They started and ended the night at our house and in between went to the South by Southwest send off show and other bars downtown.

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