Husbands Like This
I think every woman dreams to get married to a man who is your friend, a man who would do everything in their power to make you smile unexpectedly, Elvin I would say, is this type of a man.
A few weeks back, Elvin called me to let me know that his wife Jocelyne is preggie and he would love to plan for her a surprise baby shower. My first reaction to that statement was “aaaaawwwwwwwwwww” how many of such husbands are out there? Most baby showers are always planned by the friends of the mommy to be, so I was very much impressed by this. I know Jocelyne, so I knew this is something that would make her extremely happy, I was just crossing my fingers and toes that baby doesn’t come before the 26th November lol , we have experienced this before where a client went to labor 3 days before the shower ,so you can imagine we would cry if it repeated lol.
Elvin wasn’t so sure how showers are done, all he said was “ G, I want you to help me plan this, so you and your team do what you gotta do, send me the budget and we proceed from there. He just gave me a date and said he would come up with the guest list, but we have to go through it and see if he missed out any of her close friends.
Next day I sat down and tried thinking of the best theme for the shower, since they don’t know the gender yet, hence it has to be neutral, but I later on asked Elvin whether we should include a gender reveal segment at the shower and he thought that was cool. My team and I decided we should have a blue and pink theme shower, so we went on the board and created something cute that we thought would be ideal. Karim created a very cute invitation poster, the one on the bottom, for Elvin aka BABA KIJACHO to send out to her friends. We also decided that all guests should wear white, now this brings out the next interesting thing. I asked Elvin what will Jocelyne wear? And you know men, “ eerrrrmmmmm, very few things fit her these days,” and i go like “ duuurrrrrr, that only means you need to get her a new gown specially for this day” and of course the sweet hubby that he is goes like “ sure , just let me know how much it’ll cost, and what you think would be ideal” and I was like “yaaaaayyyyyy’ Jocelyne is a former Miss East Africa, I mean she has to slay on her shower no questions about that, we are surprising her for God’s sake, most of her friends are slay queens, they would def spend the whole two weeks trying to find what to wear to look nice on that day, hence she has to look the best.
So I decided we shall design for her a beautiful maternity dress and ask a local designer to make it, I picked the color yellow since everyone will be in white, and we are yet to know the gender of the baby.
Next question is, how do we get her current bust size? (covering face) so I told Elvin to kindly sneak into her closet and find her current Bra and peep the bust size, lol, trust Elvin to do so asap and let us know. The designer knows another local designer who Jocelyne normally models for, so she said she would ask her for her height, GBAM, we are set.
SEMI- HEART ATTACK
I went and saw the dress when it was done, there were a few changes that needed to be done hence I told the designer to fix it then on Saturday, a day before the big day, I would go pick it, to deliver it to Elvin who was to lie to Jocelyne he got her a dress for a maternity shoot they were gonna do on Sunday. ( that was the lie he was gonna use to get her dressed up and get out of the house)
Few hours before I go pick up the dress, the designer calls me and tells me something went wrong and she has to make a whole new dress all over again. I almost collapsed, am like “HUH?JACKY WHAT DO YOU MEAN?” I was really angry to be honest because it was less than 24 hours to the event, what am I going to tell Elvin happened? He already made the full payments for the dress, is Jacky serious? Okay so I decided il just be calm and wait since I have no option, she told me to wait and they shall deliver it to my house that same Saturday night. I stayed up till 1.03am, that is when they finished remaking it and delivered it. WHEW, at least it was all I wanted it to be, only one worry left,” may it fit Jocelyne IJN” may you all say AMEN???lol.
THE MAIN DAY
My team and I woke up early that 26th November, did all we had to do, I now had to take the dress to Elvin who had to creep out of their house (praying Jocelyne doesn’t peep through the window and see me) and deliver the dress to him. SHE LOVED IT, but she kept asking him so many questions he had no answers to , i.e “ Who made this dress Elvin? When was it made? It fits me so perfectly etc etc, (he had no answers to all this and he had to keep texting me back and forth, while my busy self was rushing to get helium balloons done to finalize the decor,lol. Fast forward, it was time for Elvin to bring Jocelyne to the “scene”. But before that, Grace ( Cherie Mals) who is Jocelyne’s very close friend and a professional make-up artist couldn’t find the best tricks possible to be able to convince her to get her make up done. Apparently she was being difficult and you can imagine time is running out, people are already at the venue waiting for her. FINALLY, God was on our side and things worked out as planned, she got her make up done, dressed in the gorg outfit and Elvin brought her to the location.
Most women are very emotional, so imagine how emotional a pregnant woman in her last trimester can get , after being this surprised? She cried and cried, the tears of joy were almost gonna ruin her makeup, lol. It was a very beautiful Sunday afternoon, everything went as planned, people ate, drunk, listened to some good music and basically wished Jocelyn all the very best as everyone anticipates whether Jordan ( their first born) was going to get a little sister to be hugging, or a little brother to be punching. We were extremely happy to be part of this very special day.
Till next week , xoxo – G.S