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Bridal Shower: What was your theme, food served?
my sister planned a shower for 30 in a small room of a private club that was on the water....everyone wore pink and it was catered seafood apps and wine.
I have to plan a bridal shower in early October for a winter wedding and I have no clue what theme to use.
Any ideas for a bridal shower?
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Re: Bridal Shower: What was your theme, food served?
Have you asked the bride what she wants? My own was a casual co-ed cookout just visiting with good friends.
I've never been to a themed bridal shower. Maybe a northern thing? Here, if the bride's really popular and there are are a dozen people who want to throw her a shower, each hostess takes a theme for the gifts - kitchen, lawn & garden, stock the bar, etc. - but that's more of a gifts-logistics thing and the party itself is never themed. They're always cocktail parties or cookouts. Could you do something like that?
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Mine didn't have a theme, they decorated veils for me to model and I opened gifts.
and I can't really remember the food. There was some.
I agree with the advice to feel out the bride for her preferences.
Other than the date and time, I knew NOTHING about my shower and it was a complete surprise!
My Maid/Matron of Honor planned a kitchen shower for me and it was SO much fun! The door prizes were aprons (which my matron of Honor sewed herself) along with kitchen utensils pertaining to a certain time of day. The games consisted of the following:
-Apron Game: I had to model an apron that had about 12 kitchen utensils attached to it. Once I left the room, guests had to write down as many items as they remembered. The guest with the most correct won the prize.
Safety Pin Game- As guests entered the venue, they each wrote their name on a cut out of an oven mitt and pinned it to their shirt. Throughout the entire shower, no one was allowed to say my name or the grooms name. They had to refer to us as "bride' and "groom". If they were caught saying either of our names, whoever caught them got their safety pin. The guest with the most at the end of the shower won a prize.
-TP Bride- This is a classic. I thought it was fun! depending on how many people there are, split the group into teams of 3-5. Each team chooses a "bride" They get however many minutes you decide to "dress the bride" in toilet paper. The bride picks which "dress" she likes the best and that guest gets a prize.
-Pass the Bouquet: My MOH made a silk bouquet using our wedding flowers (later to be used as my toss bouquet). This game is played just like hot potato. Guests pass the bouquet as music is playing. When the music stops, the guest holding the bouquet is out. The guest left at the end wins a prize.
The food we had was SO good! MOH served the following:
-veggie tray, chocolate fountain with pretzels/fruit, cream cheese/tortilla wraps, meat/cheese platter with crackers, cookie favors, and cake. Coffee and punch was also served.
My favorite flowers are tulips so my MOH had vases full of pink tulips as part of the decoration.
Hope that helped! GL!
Themes aren't a regional thing. I didn't have one and I'm a northerner. For one I just told my sister I wanted real food and lots of it. We ate, drank, and I opened presents. My sMIL also threw one that was around Christmas. She took little ornaments and put tags on them and everyone wrote little pieces of advice. She had a little tree that they could all fit on and I got to keep it. It was very cute and I like putting up that little tree every year.
My shower wasn't really themed, but my sister took into account my likes. I would highly suggest checking in with the bride to be and what she would like.
I love to cook and entertain, so my sister surprised me by having each person bring a recipe. This was filled out and attached to the present. She bought a beautiful book to put all of the recipes in. It was great! I also got a bunch of my kitche stuff off of my registry - maybe people thought that was what they were supposed ot do??? However, the center pieces, invitations, etc were not cooking or kitchen themed.
For food, it was a bit tough because she had to work w/ my SIL (my IL's have a very different idea of things). Food was pretty casual - chicken salad sandwhiches, cheese/cracker tray, chocolate dipped strawberries, cake. And mimosas of course!
GL with the shower that you are throwing!
For my bridal shower, my sister threw "a few of her favorite things" theme. She decorated in my favorite colors, used my favorite flowers and put them in a few vases at the tables. And, she made my favorite food and drinks.
You could definitely play on that.
We went with a Hawaiian theme, since that is where we went on our honeymoon. My parents did the cooking, it was at their house. Since it was in July they had burgers with all the toppings, but they suggested a "Hawaiian Burger" which is a hamburger, with ham, and a pineapple on top. (I have no clue where they got the recipe.) They had a bunch of non hawaiian food.
But they also had Blue Hawaii's and Mai Tais there as well.
My bridal shower was a Mad Hatter Tea Party. (Pics in Planning Bio under Pre-Wedding Parties).
There was a topsy turvy cake, the floral centerpieces were in tea pots and tea cups, my BM's framed different tea recipes that went on each of the tables, and of course we had several different kinds of tea to choose from to drink. They also framed pictures from Alice & Wonderland at each of the tables.
I just went to a Caribbean travel themed bridal shower last weekend for a friend of mine. The MOH themed it after their HM cruise since neither the bride or her FI have been on a cruise so the shower was to build on the excitement of their HM.
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I had two showers, both were themed. I've recently attend two other showers, both were themed. All were in California (if the regional debate is still a question.)
Shower #1: Naughty & Nice. It was a lingire shower, sort-of. Guests were asked to bring "naughty" and/or "nice" gifts (most people brought two, or wrapped things seperately -- like the "naughty" gift was a bottle of tequilla, the "nice" gift was margarita glasses off the registry). "Naughty" gifts were wrapped in brown paper bags, "nice" gifts were wrapped normally. The color scheme was red and black. We played standard bridal shower games (don't say "wedding," TP bridal gown, matching couples) and the food wasn't themed aside from "Pink Panties Punch" which was basically strawberry and white wine sangria. For favors, everyone who came got a martini glass filled with red wrapped Hershey kisses.
Shower #2: Kitchen Shower. My aunt made me an apron that said "Mrs. LastName" across the front, and added a pin-on that said "The Future" just to wear for the shower. We played all kitchen-themed games, like "Price is Right" with spices, measurement equivalents, etc. For food, we had Italian food. For favors, everyone who came got heart-shaped measuring spoons and M&Ms.
Shower #3: Tea Party. This was actually held at a tea house for a friend of mine, so there weren't many games. The menu was set by the restaurant (finger sandwiches, scones, etc.). One thing we did was have everyone write down marriage advice for the bride-to-be. Then the cards were mixed up and repassed around, so everyone had to read someone else's advice out loud. For favors, everyone who came got a tea cup with a tea bag and honey sticks.
Shower #4: "Wedding Prevue." The wedding was actually a destination wedding and a lot of the shower guests weren't seeing the venue before the actual day. So, we (the bridal party) "brought the venue to the shower" by using themed items (it was in a forest, so we used lots of wildflowers and tree-trunk shaped candle holders and things). We also used the bride's wedding colors to decorate.
My sister did my shower w/ friends & didn't do a theme but had games, great food & awesome centerpieces to tie in w/ my wedding colors: 3 Granny Smith apples w/ a tri of b&w pics taped together to form a triangle - they rested on top of the apples - loved it!!
I did my sister's & didn't do a theme though the food was themed via having a brunch...we did games & had the colors match her wedding colors. My sister wanted a devotional by an aunt who did this for her daughter like 6 yrs previously so I remembered that & asked that aunt to do this.
I have helped to host a number of showers & one a few had a real theme...like a "tea party"...I am not big into having to wear a certain color - never have done that b4 at a shower!
Think about things she likes or things connected to her wedding and go from there. DH and I were engaged in Italy and were given an Italy-themed shower. I've also been to ones where the couple was getting married in Mexico or by the ocean and that played into the theme. I also saw one where the bride was into sewing and they decorated with that theme and all chipped in and bought her a sewing machine.
Some examples--Have trivia games related to the theme (under the sea, a night in paris, mexican fiesta.) You can make beautiful flower arrangements with those pieces incorporated. I was given a necklace and bouquet made of wine corks! The bride who was getting married in Mexico had a sombrero.
I'm into ribbons and bows showers. The gifts are only wrapped with a cute ribbon and/or bow. It's better for the environment and takes away some of the unwrapping time. It also challenges people to make the gifts look cute without wrapping them.
You can also ask the bride if there's a bigger ticket item she wants. At my shower, everyone chipped in and gave me a huge Le Creuset pot that I had been coveting. In addition, they gave me a recipe for something to make in the pot. At my best friend's quasi-shower (it was the morning of her wedding bc there were so many out-of-towners so she didn't want to ask people to bring gifts), I had people bring a recipe and invited them to bring a small item that would aid her in making that recipe. Think a recipe for blueberry muffins with a muffin tin or a recipe for enchiladas with assorted spices, etc.
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My shower was a lingerie shower since we already lived together before we got married and had most everything else we needed! It was so mcuh fun and I got pajamas and undies to last a life time! Not to mention the memories! (: