
The Bridal shower for Mary Ann was held at The Cheesecake Factory on the 8th floor of the Macy's Downtown in San Francisco for 6:30 PM thru 9:30 PM.
Rosallie, Dollace and Frincess rode with us. They already had the lighting ceremony in Union Square it was so beautiful there with all the decorations and the lights on the windows of the big shopping store. I love downtown at night time. There were so many people. Unfortunately, we had to wait 2 hours to get our table for 9 coz' there were tons of people trying to get seats into the restaurant. Especially on the weekends it gets really busy.
Who was there: Ann, Malou, Dollace, Frincess, Rowena, Rosallie, Leslie, Anna, Nina, and Melissa.
Our food courses and desserts we ate
Tex Mex Eggrolls (Spicy chicken, corn, black beans, peppers, onions, and melted cheese. Served w/avocado cream and salsa.
Factory Appetizer favorites: Serves 4 or more! A combination of our fave appetizers including: Avocado eggrolls, spinach and cheese dip (weng loves this), pot stickers, summer rolls, quesadilla, corn cakes, buffalo blasts & calamari.
Firecracker salmon rolls: spiced fresh salmon rolled in spinach and fried in a crisp wrapper. Served w/a sweet hot chili sauce.
Chinese chicken salad: Sliced chicken breast, rice noodles, lettuce, green onion, almonds, crisp wontons, bean sprouts, orange & sesame seeds. Tossed in our special chinese plum dressing.
Grilled chicken tostada salad: Crisp corn tortillas topped w/grilled marinated chicken breast and black beans piled high w/mixed greens, fresh corn, green onions & cilantro all tossed in our vinaigrette and garnished w/avocado cream, salsa and sour cream.
Big five pizza: Pepperoni, Italian sausage, Mushrooms, onions and peppers w/mozarella and marinara sauce.
Cajun Jambalaya Pasta: our most popular seafood dish! Shrimp & chicken sauteed w/onions, tomato and peppers in a very spicy cajun sauce. All on top of fresh linguini.
Bang-Bang chicken and shrimp: A spicy Thai dish w/the flavors of curry, peanut, chile and coconut. Sauteed w/veggies and served over rice.
The Desserts: Fabulous choco mousse cake (layers of rich chocolate mousse sandwiched between our fudge cake covered w/the most delish choco icing you've ever tasted.
Warm apple crisp (Our delish crispy nutty topping and vanilla ice cream) Yumm, i love warm desserts w/ice cream (a la mode! the Best).
Tiramisu (Italian custard made w/mascarpone, whipped cream, lady fingers, marsala and coffee liquer. Topped w/whipped cream and ground chocolate.
The cons about Cheesecake Factory: the two hour wait that we all had to endure that Anna did not even get a chance to eat!
Embarassing moments: Mary Ann was SO embarassed about getting the sexy lingeries from everyone (of course, Victoria Secret!)
Tearful moments: Mary Ann was so touched when she was making a speech-all the stress from the wedding plans made her tear up a little bit plus the girls making it for her bridal shower.
Favors: Every one got a small to go boxes w/an angel w/a heart and chocolates inside. Some girls got a cute make up bag and small perfume from Victoria Secret.
Here is some of the e-mails that I got from the girls:
my pleasure I am glad I was able to make it too, I will try to put together something for all are girlie's cousin to get together one a year something we can all do without the boys.
thanks for inviting me, I had a wonderful time.
happy thanksgiving. weng, aliyah and glenn
Ate Malou, thank yo so much for all your hard work for Ate Mary Ann's shower. I had so much fun and will never forget that evening! Thanks for having me,
Leslie
I had one from Rosallie but accidentally erased it!! Sorry Rosallie.
Dear: Marylou
The bridal show was perfect and I enjoy it very much!!! The wait is worth it!!! I just want you to know how lucky Maryann is to have you as her sister. and I really appreciate all the work you did!! So, THANK YOU!!!...I looking forward to see the pictures...
PS, i need to talk to you about the schedule for maryann's wedding day!!!
thanks again, nina
A comment from WEng:
said... I love this kind of get together we should plan to do it once a year. I can plan it if you like. Let me know your thoughts on this.
By a way, I love looking at perfect moments it like reading a book. I think I am going to make aliyah one too. I'll see If I have time. Thanks for sharing!