Tell me about your shower..

Marci17154 · January 2010

Hey ladies, my MOH and I spent the day looking for invites to my shower and talked about different ideas and themes. So far we are at a loss and have only one idea we will include for sure. (guests bring a pair of panties for me rather than a card, they will hang from a line over the gift table and I will get to guess who brought which pair and when I get it I get to open their gift..has anyone else done this? how did you ask everyone?)

So please help her out, did you have a themed shower, or play a unique game or maybe you have been to a shower that you thought was awesome, please tell me all about it!! TIA

DreamsBride411 · January 2010

My mom did a beach-themed shower... lemme think of some details.

She had the invites made and they were gorgeous with palm trees rhinestones.

She had big big big balloons made up that hung from the ceiling and inside each one (I believe there were 8 all together) was a different hanging bikini. I got to pop them all before we left Smile

The favors were beach buckets with a big beach towel (LinensNThings just happened to have been going out of business when we were in the market for them), flip flops in different colors, chap sticks that said "cristina's bridal shower," and a couple of other beachy and cute little things.

The tables were decorated in a sea net with shells and sea glass.

Their were 5 pictures of me blown up and framed around the room at various ages in bikinis and on the beach.

Games we did Bridal Bingo, the game where one girl at a table had to be made up as a bride using toilet paper, and an word scramble.

It was about 70 (Ihave a lot of family) people and at an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn.

Here's some pics:

eamaines · January 2010

Marci17154:
(guests bring a pair of panties for me rather than a card, they will hang from a line over the gift table and I will get to guess who brought which pair and when I get it I get to open their gift..has anyone else done this? how did you ask everyone?)

Ummmm, I could see doing this as your Bachelorette Party but not for a bridal shower, JMPO. I can"t imagine my mother"s church friends thinking this was an appropriate idea for a bridal shower.

shaneanddannie · January 2010

we did a funny game where i had to explain what my wedding dress looked like to everyone and they had to draw it. except the funny part was they had to have the paper on their head and draw it on top of their head! the results were hysterical!

jebuell · January 2010

I didn't do a theme for either of my showers. But at both we played this fun game where the host called up DH and asked him questions about himself, and then they asked me the same questions and see if they would match. One of my showers was a co-shower and it was a contest between me and the other bride (I won that game!).

aelopez · January 2010

We did a co-ed barbeque. DH's friends brought him stuff that was on our Lowe's registry and boy stuff, and I got lingerie and stuff from BBB. We had a mini poker tournament and then watched a movie. It was pretty laid back which was exactly what we wanted. Just our friends and family, good food and drinks.

dexspsandqs · January 2010

eamaines:
Marci17154:
(guests bring a pair of panties for me rather than a card, they will hang from a line over the gift table and I will get to guess who brought which pair and when I get it I get to open their gift..has anyone else done this? how did you ask everyone?)
Ummmm, I could see doing this as your Bachelorette Party but not for a bridal shower, JMPO. I can"t imagine my mother"s church friends thinking this was an appropriate idea for a bridal shower.

THIS!!!!!!

Not appropriate for a shower- a shower should have themes like a tea or garden party, spa, beauty, travel, beach, stock the wine cellar or kitchen, ect...

For example, I hosted a 'breakfast at Tiffany' shower that was tasteful and appropriate for all ages- tiffany blue colour scheme, blue boxes stacked with white ribbons, blue hydrangea arrangements, mini blue iced vanilla cupcakes, ect..The ladies came in pearls and "Audrey inspired wear!'

dexspsandqs · January 2010

I should add that dh and I had a coed shower thrown that was more of a mixer- no theme, no games, just friends, family- good food and drinks!

mc12809 · January 2010

One of the games at my shower was as guests arrived the hostess handed out a small piece of paper and each guest had to write a memory they had of me on it. Once everyone arrived and the hostess collected the memories, we started the shower, I had to read each one aloud and guess who the person was. As I guessed, I then also introduced who the person was and how I knew them. It was a lot of fun, although my high school friends sure had a lot of memories they could have put down and joked they were having a hard time coming up with something appropriate LOL!!. The only other thing was some of DH family didn't have a memory of me so some of them wrote down a memory they had of him and I wasn't sure on those, but there was some of my family I wasn't sure on either! In the end it was a nice game, and I had one of my sisters write the person's name on them as I guessed correctly so I could keep them!

Marci17154 · January 2010

Thank you ladies for sharing! I will be sure to pass on the ideas to my MOH.

Marci17154 · January 2010

IMHO offering people a unique option of buying a pair of panties rather than a card is not a bad idea, I know I would rather buy someone something they can wear and enjoy for months rather than a card that will be dumped in the trash or shoved in a box.

The group of women that will be at my shower are all close and fun people, I don't expect to offend anyone that will be invited at all by this idea. This is not the theme of my shower just something that people can chose to do rather than buy a card.

That said, I can see how it would be raunchy if I were to ask for crotchless panties or a pearl g-string but that wont be happening, (maybe someone will bring them anyways Embarrassed ) or if "my crowd" was very conservative or religious how it might upset someone.

Thank you both for your imput!

eamaines · January 2010

I still think it's highly inappropriate for a bridal shower but to each his own.

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