For those who don’t watch the Bachelor or the Bachelorette, I get it. Maybe it’s not something you’re interested in or you have a hard time dedicating two hours of your time to a reality TV show every week.
I urge you to change your mind about the premiere and/or the finale though! Since Kaitlyn’s season (#11 for the Bachelorette and somewhere in the low thirties for the whole franchise) was ending on Monday night I had a group of ladies to my house to all get together and watch.
Out of the 11 of us, I was the only one who had watched the entire season and only three others had been casually watching. My mom did manage to at least Google a season recap so she at least knew the three major players’ names… Don’t worry though; we still called Nick “the Other Guy” for the whole night!
Even though so many of the girls had no idea what had happened all season we had a great time. Of course, we had a pink lemonade wine punch and everybody brought food. The most discussed crowd pleaser was probably the ricotta cheese and truffle oil dip.
My favorite “suite treat” were the ring pops. It was fun for us to watch while wearing our own rocks. Even the one Shawn picked for Kaitlyn couldn’t compare to the size of those!
We had so much fun gossiping about the show, catching up with each other and making predictions about the next bachelor. (I know it’s rumored to be Ben H, but I don’t buy until he signs a contract. I’m sort of hoping it’s Andi’s ex-fiancee Josh. I think Ben H would be boring for an entire season.)
Something I did that was really fun was make “Team Nick” and “Team Shawn” buttons. The group was overwhelmingly Team Shawn or Team Reject Them Both, but a couple people felt bad that Nick had no one on his side, so I did see a couple of Team Nick buttons leave the bowl.
The gamemaster Dara even put together Bingo boards featuring various probable moments (blatant Neil Lane diamond product placement, Chris Harrison says “the most <insert adjective here> season yet, someone says “future husband or wife”) and we used M&Ms to keep track. She even brought prizes for the first two bingo winners – bouquets of roses!
Already looking forward to the premiere for next season. I’m hoping to have everyone do predictions and then reread them at the finale!
