The Bachelorette: Like Reality TV but Better
Whenever I get together with my girlfriends, a few things tend to happen. 1) We have a couple of drinks, 2) We wear silly costumes, 3) We dance wildly in public places not necessarily meant for dancing and 4) We take hundreds of pictures of us loving on each other.
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All four of these things happened in excess the night of my bachelorette party, and I am still coming down from that high. New Orleans didn’t know what it was getting into when it let 20 of us run wild and unchaperoned through the streets.
Smooth, Nicole.
Lovely Loyola ladies.
California girls… so classy.
We took over the top floor of Mimi’s in the Marigny, toasting with champagne, feasting on tapas and shimmying to a washboard band.
I always wanted to be serenaded by a man with a washboard.
“Ain’t no thang!”
Then we went to our old stomping ground, One Eyed Jacks (formerly the Shim Sham) where Kaila, Parisa and I have spent many a Thursday night tearing up the dance floor to ’80s new wave music and drinking $1 High Lifes.
Oh, my favorite Asian sassypants pixies.
Arrggghh!
Those long flowing locks…
Scratch that. Those long flowing locks.
It was an amazing night. I love, love, love my girls, and I never thought I would have the chance to see so many of them in the same place at the same time.
Katie Ide and I often say, half-jokingly (but not really), “Why are we so awesome?! I feel sad for people who aren’t us.” I think this perfectly describes all of my girlfriends, a group of women who are as intelligent as they are sassy, as strong as they are generous and as creative as they are hilarious. I looked around that night and saw the women who have seen me at my best and my worst– who comforted me through incoherent sobbing fits, traveled with me halfway across the world, primped with me before big events and slapped some sense into me when I started to talk crazy.
Sista, sista!
To Melia, thank you for being my best friend, mentor and confidante for the past 25 years. You are amazing for planning such a perfect celebration. I adore you.
To my girls who were there and to those who couldn’t make it, I love you all and can’t wait until we can get together again. Vegas next year?
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Aww! You have no idea how much fun it was to plan an evening for my baby sis and best friend, who’s all growns up. I am so grateful for someone who’s been there from the time I would gel my hair in middle school (though we try to forget that) to when I was a stressed-out workaholic whose best therapy was homemade nachos and Grey’s Anatomy with my roomie and lil’ sis.
A few highlights of the bachelorette for me, in no particular order:
1. Animal hats, the elephant in particular. I love, love, the picture of Nicole sneaking into the frame. “Oh dear, what gave me away?”
2. Wigs, the afro and mullet in particular. Can we please wear wigs every day? At least Mardi Gras is coming.
3. Your/our friends. Amazing. All the rumors are true. Creative professionals by day, stage dancers by night. All in a day’s work, ma’am. And as people have been known to say, “Gill just isn’t friends with ugly people.”
4. 80s Night at One-Eyed Jack’s. Everything you said about it was spot on. $1 High Lifes AND dancing to “Take on Me”?
5. Seeing you so happy to have most of your people in one place.
I’m so glad that you had as much fun at your bachelorette as we all did!
Thanks for giving me a shout-out girl! The bachelorette was…beyond words fun. So glad I was able to be there to celebrate.
I still do feel sad for people who aren’t us. It must suck to bask in our awesomeness, yet know that you’ll never quite reach it. I think the people at Mimi’s were jealous.
Speaking of washboards, I’m still not sure if “Single Girl, Married Girl” is a real song. The lyrics were sorta suspect. I recall them going something like: “Single girl is pretty and awesome. Married girl is….not.” And I was all like, “Hey, washboard dude. I totally bought $200 worth of shoe inserts and bridesmaid pretties for this wedding and I cannot return them if you talk her out of it. LET’S HEAR SOME POSITIVE LYRICS, HMMMMMM-KAY?”