here are a few pix from the shower i helped hold for my friend Deer Eyes

a simple turkish style spa shower with belly dancers and all

the bridal tent and some of the foods


foods


Deer Eyes sitting in her bridal tent


Deer Eyes with the dancers ( yes my daughter Jess is one !! )

OMG! How well done! You go girl! She must have been so pleased!

looks like a fun time


good work

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

thanx ... is was enjoyed by all

that food looks delicious!!!

nakedpianoplayer said:

thanx

JasmineFire said:

it was VERY !!!

a pic i took of Jess outside with her sword

Cool Mach, well done! Looks like a great day! Nice spread too! I love party food! Is the bridal shower just like a party before the wedding for the bride?

susannah said:

yes it is ...


thanx


we also did henna and natural spa things like foot soaks & facials



it's so gurlie




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[Edited 4/9/06 9:20am]

Mach said:

Ooh very nice!! thats the sort of thing I'd like, I wouldnt want a hen night or bachelorette party as you call it in the states, with drinking, strippers etc the drinking yes but not the strippers and flirting with every guy in town...not my thing! A nice meal, girly things like that, sounds more like it!!

susannah said:

no ... no drinking / strippers / bar kida vibe

those were almost fun at 20 ... but no so much at 40

that and she is a shamanic priestess ... so that whole party like that vibe doesnt fit her well

JasmineFire said:

Exactly what I was thinking! Yum!!!

Beautiful!!
What a fun shower...I would rather go to that shower that the traditional, boring, find-a-quarter-taped-to-the=bottom-of-your-plate-to-win-a-potholder type

Mach said:

Mach...she's got your eyes

Beautiful girl.

where's the bbq? or the tato chips?

ever been in a turkish prison?

sosgemini said:

applekisses said:

it was a beautiful shower


yeah ...Jess has my eyes but her's are lighter blue almost translucent

kinda freaky

That is really, really beautiful.

I would choose something like that over a traditional bridal shower any day.

Hey Mach...

Really nice ! I give you my official Turkish approval ....

I see baklava there....and olives and veggie dips and hummus ?


Ahhhhh....I miss Turkey....will go there in a couple of months.

My aunts and uncles had three-day-long wedding parties when I was a kid...people used to prepare huge meals for days, lots of rice stuff (pilav) and stuffed vegetagbles and aubergine/eggplant meals with gallons of olive oil.

Gipsy bands played crazy music with their big drums and clarinettes, sometimes even fortunetellers came to the parties in the villages.

Mach if I ever get hitched will you give me a shower?

Everything looks so beautiful!

sosgemini said:

Hey , Oliver Stone was in Istanbul last year and apologized for Midnight Express .

My uncle went to jail right after his Turkish wedding because some fools were shooting in the air and my friend got hit by a bullet...he was standing next to me.
Anyway, my uncle didn´t want to snitch, because it was his wedding and he was the host, so he voluntarily went to prison. I visited him there.

Turkish prisons ain´t no joke, but not as horrible as portrayed in movies either.

People drink lots of black tea in prison.

Mach said:

screw what the shemanic preistess wants...(ummm...what is that anyways?)



its all about the bachelorette party..

KoolEaze said:

wow...is that what that joke is from? ive never seen the film....did your friend live? and how long was your uncle in jail for?

sosgemini said:

The film is bad...I mean, not because I´m Turkish but simply because it´s a bad film. It has two directors and they didn´t really collaborate or cooperate,Alan Parker´s half of the film is drastically different in style, the pseudo-Turkish policemen in the film are, oh what a coincidence, played by Greeks and Armenians who speak bad Turkish in their scenes, and it is obviously meant as some sort of propaganda, which I don´t mind, let them have fun, but it´s simply badly executed. Even the guy that the story is based on tried to explain to people that the film´s story was exaggerated.

Anyway, yes, my friend lived, the bullet went through his cheek , and I was very lucky..so was he, in the end.

My uncle stayed in prison for about two or three months, the dude who fired the shots apologized, and all was good in the end...I´m glad people practicing those stupid traditions like shooting in the air get severely punished these days..

KoolEaze said:

it was PAklava ... most made the same mistake and home made fresh the day before

most all the food was home made with love and care for the bride

Sweeny79 said:

sure


you'll have to come to NC for it though

sosgemini said:

oh we have strippers just not at the bridal hamam

Mach said:

Paklava ???? Never heard that before ...what´s the difference between Paklava and Baklava ?


And is that a real sword that your daughter is holding ?


Anyway, nice to see that you appreciate certain elements of our culture