*giggles with mischievous delight*
So.
To recap, last year I made a post dedicated to my sister's pending wedding which featured bridal fascinators. You can see that post: HERE.
--A year passes... la, la, la...--
One day in late September I was at work talking with a co-worker about her wedding, and she told me about the getaway car prank that her husband's groomsman played on her car. They saran-wrapped it, layering the plastic wrap with shaving cream, and then collected all the bags of leaves they could find in the neighborhood and dumped them all on her car. When she came out during the reception she said, "Hey! Where's my..." and then noticed the huge lump of leaves where her car was. It was COMPLETELY COVERED by the leaves! She then said nonchalantly, "I'm not cleaning that up," and left her new husband to clean up the mess with minimal help from the responsible groomsmen. HA HA!
I was inspired! In spite of the getaway car prank usually being administered by the groomsman, I didn't know what was going on with my sister's groomsmen so I thought I ought to take on this responsibility for myself. I started looking up pranks to play on the getaway car at my sister's wedding (because I didn't want to do the usual thing, drawing penises all over it and plastering the car with condoms--no thank you!). I found a post that talked about filling a car with packaging peanuts. I wondered out loud, "Where the heck can I get that many packing peanuts?" Then my co-worker said, "Just use shredded paper! We've got it here and there are other places in the library that shred paper too." It was GENIUS! So, for two weeks I had 3 departments around the library sending me their paper shreddings. I knew I would need a lot, because I assumed they would be driving my sister's car from the wedding, and she drives a Chevy HHR. Which is a big car.
The week before the wedding, I got an email from the matron of honor about my sister's bachelorette party. I said I wouldn't be going, but needed a co-conspirator for a getaway car prank that "won't be icky or gross but it will be impressive." Basically, to ensure that all the shredded paper wouldn't go completely to waste, I needed a way to get my sister's car keys during the wedding reception. To my great relief, she agreed and said, "I'm totally in! I'll feel it out and we'll get it done!! Thanks for stepping up in that!" With her assurances, all I had to do now was wait for the bags of shredded paper to come piling in!
Now a break to bring you your regularly scheduled Etsy goodness...
I wanted to find shredded paper goods on Etsy, but most of those were of the craft supply persuasion. I didn't just want to post, "Hey! Blue shredded paper! Here, some purple shredded paper!" Nah. I did come across lots of shredded clothing, most of it I didn't find to my particular liking. However, I did find plenty of shredded scarves, so here you go:
A moment later, we arrive and park next to my sister's HHR, on the opposite side from the building. My dad and brother were out there waiting for us, my dad just having a smoke. I kick off my high heeled shoes, open my car trunk, open Karen's front door--it turned out to be unlocked anyway-- and frantically try to figure out how to open the car's trunk. My dad jumped in and I think he was the one who figured out how to open it. But he and my brother were outside with us, cracking up as The Boyfriend and I frantically tore open the plastic bags, and dumped them into her car. It was filled pretty meticulously. And quickly I might add! From when we got the keys to when we finished emptying out bags (actually, we ran out of time, people started lining up outside and we ran out of room in the car's main cabin, I had to stuff the last 4-5 full bags into the trunk area of the car), and moved our cars down the road aways, only 5-10 minutes had passed! The result of which was:
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| A TOTALLY FULL CAR!!! |
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| The goofy, "I HATE YOU!" look. |
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| The cleanup. |
LMFAO! People cracked up! My mom loved it so much that later she called the grandparents who left early to tell them about it, and they called me the day after that to congratulate me! The Boyfriend and I, my dad, one of the groomsman, and several caterers did the cleaning. They loved the prank and were thankful that we helped clean and said we left less of a mess for them than many other parties they've had to clean up after, so that was cool. No muss, no fuss, no regrets!
Anyway, so that's how that went.
Have you been married and experienced a wedding prank? Ever pulled a wedding prank? Do tell. Post a comment. :)
Thanks for reading!
