of birthdays and romance novels

it's my friends birthday in a couple of weeks and as she will be going away we decided to have a little get-together this weekend. but apparently i am not allowed to call it a birthday party. she doesn't like birthday parties, strange i know i think they are the greatest.

anyho so we are having a party and since she loves reading romance novels so much i thought we could maybe have a romance novel inspired party. one of my other friends noted that there aren't very many of us so it would more likely be a small get-together of weirdo's drinking while in ridiculous costumes but i think that's just fine.

my brain can't really translate ideas into words very well so i will try and demonstrate with pictures

but if i had to buzz words would be romantic (obviously), rustic and ruffles

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