My parents surprise 30th anniversary party!

This past weekend was one for the books! :-) Let's back up to this past spring when one of my best friends Liz and her sister threw their parents a surprise 30th wedding anniversary party. I thought to myself, okay my parents 30th is coming up in October....I want to surprise them! So that's what my sister and I did this past Saturday---surprised the mess out of them!

Let's get one thing straight. My mom is the most DIFFICULT person in the world. My sister Lauren and I were quite worried about how we would pull this off and make sure 80 people kept their mouths shut!

The way we got our parents to the restaurant we had the party at, was by telling them I won a $300 wine tasting and wine basket at work to this restaurant and it was on a heated rooftop bar. We had to throw in the rooftop bit because the room for the party happened to be upstairs as well---so we had to make them come upstairs! Well, I made the mistake of telling my mom that my gift basket came with information on the tasting. She asked me to bring it over so she could see it, and yeah....I had to create some fake flyer/brochure thing to make her buy it. Ridiculous right!

If that wasn't bad enough, the night I came over to show her the wine information, she said I could call the restaurant to see what it was all about and to see if we could bring 10 people (my sister's boyfriend parents came up that weekend for the "long weekend" but were totally in on the surprise). I had to fake a call to the restaurant all while my mom's behind me saying things like "ask them this, ask them that." Told ya she was difficult! Thankfully my dad just went with the flow for everything.

The night of the party, I got there an hour earlier than my parents to greet all the guests and such, all while furiously texting my sister to make sure the plan was going to work. I got the text that they arrived and Kurt and I headed downstairs to the hostess stand to pretend like we had just gotten there and were waiting. I handed the hostess my fake flyer and she brought us up to the "wine tasting," and well, the rest is history! They had absolutely ZERO idea!!

My mom has the worst problem keeping eyes open in photos!

Lauren and I could not BELIEVE we pulled this off. My mom cried, my dad couldn't even SPEAK he was so shocked! The first thing my mom said was "I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN MORE DRESSED!"

We partied until almost 1 am with food, an open bar, cake, laughs and music! Just looking at these pictures from the night and seeing my parents, family and friends all celebrating 30 years of my parents, has me SO happy! It was such a fantastic night that I will never forget!