How to throw an amazing bridal shower
Nearly every woman in the world has been to the standard bridal shower — it takes up her Saturday afternoon with silly games and some bland finger sandwiches. Banish that sherbet punch, bridesmaids, and concoct a bridal shower that neither the bride nor her guests will ever forget.
Here’s how to throw an amazing bridal shower:
Step one: Dream up a theme for the bridal shower. The first way to distinguish this shower from every other one is by have an twist. These should be full-blown themes that can be applied from everything from the invitations to the food, not something like “stock the kitchen,” which can only be related to gift-giving.
Options range from a casino night to a coed couples cocktail party to a true-blue slumber party. Whatever you do, go all the way — it’s only fun if you really commit.
Step two: Design killer invitations. Take your theme and run with it. Having a naughty-and-nice bridal shower? An red and white invitation prominently featuring both devil horns and a halo is the way to go. Let your guests know right off the bat that this isn’t your typical shower — this is going to be one of the best bridal showers they’ve ever been to.
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Step three: Serve delicious food and drinks. Nearly every type of theme can have a counterpart in the food, if you really think about it. That naughty-and-nice theme we mentioned before has a really fun foodie version, with spicy foods on one side of the table and creamy sweets on the other side. A luau bridal shower would see — what else? — lots of pineapple, coconut, and sweet and sour flavors.
Step four: Skip the cliche games. We’re talking about the clothespin game, toilet paper wedding dress game and pin the tail on the groom. We always don’t want to hear someone ask the bride questions about the groom — that’s only fun for the bride and the person asking her the questions.
Liven things up with fresh, non-game activities like creating a scrapbook page of the guest and the bride (ask the guest to bring a picture or two) or having each guest share the funniest memory she has of the couple (keep it clean if Grandma’s around).
Step five: Make gift-opening fun for the guests, too. Sure, we all like watching with jealous while our gal-pal opens up a batch of lovely gifts. But unless the bride is opening the gift WE gave her, sometimes we tend to tune out. A good way to keep guests occupied is with an activity like shower gift BINGO. Give guests each a blank BINGO card with the bride’s name space along the top. Before the gifts are opened, have each guest fill in what they think the bride will receive as a gift. As the gifts are open, each guests marks off what they got right. When an entire row is full, the guest screams “Bingo!” and they are the winner.
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