The White Party

On the Fourth of July, my parents threw an out-of-this-world engagement party at our lake house in Deep Creek Lake, MD. You know a party is amazing when a week goes by and you are still smiling with the good memories. I still can't believe how ridiculously fun it was and how much work went into making it happen. A special shout out to my dad and mom who worked their party-throwing magic; DJ Aria for spinning the beats while hopelessly wasted; Javad for sharing his Noon o Kabab restaurant secrets and providing the food; to Mojgan for the 100 delicious cupcakes; to Siamak and Anna for the signage; Christiane and Fred for letting us use your industrial-sized kitchen to seeq the kebab and chop the vegetables; to Mehran and Kamiar for dealing with the whole grilling the goat thing; to Javad and Sharzad for letting random people sleep in your house; to Goli for being the on site photographer, to Kelly for doing my make up and Kat for straightening my hair and the list goes on....By the night of the party, the house was set up like a wedding and I felt like a bride. So now, without further ado for those of you who missed this, I present Ava and Este's Engagement Party 2009 in pictures:

Setting Up:
Este was recruited to help chop about 100 very large onions. No cry babies here!


While I was sent to the butcher shop to ground 40 pounds of meat...






Why didn't we just have the wedding? My parents even bought a canoe just so they could fill it with ice and make it a salad bar. Sigh...






Couldn't wait to eat this goat! His name was Sam.


Bride-to-Be and Groom-to-Be are looking good in red! All others blended in the background with white. haha!







Is this Lili's husband?


NO. Is this Lili's husband?
No, again.


THERE he is!!!


More good times...