Wedding showers are great—you tell people what you want and they buy it for you, even before you actually get married. And there’s even some kind of lunch involved…I don’t really know, since I just showed up at the end to watch Amy open (and help announce) the gifts. But we made a long weekend out of it with lots of family from all sides and food galore. The hardest part was getting all those fabulous items back to the Bay Area, but with the help of a few well-packed trunks, we did OK (now we just need to find a place to put everything in our place).