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Your bridal showers
Tell me about your bridal showers.
Post pix if you want.
I'm looking for ideas for my sister's. It is in March (planning ahead on ideas).
Thanks!
Re: Your bridal showers
Mine was super mellow - just at a friend's house, probably about 10 people. Tons of delicious food and cupcakes with sugar daisies on them. Gerber daisies on random tables. I think we just played one game, it was a how well do you know the bride type game - a sheet with a bunch of questions (my fav. ice cream, fav. movie, how did DH and I meet, etc) and whoever got the most right won.
It really was exactly what I wanted - and it was a surprise! I thought I was coming over just for a cookout since we'd been talking about getting together with this friend for a while.
I didn't have one, since the BP all lived far away. My MOH threw a bridal tea the afternoon before my wedding. Awesome. She found this cute little tea house and we had all the BMs, the moms, the grandma, and any OOT women who wanted to come (mostly family showed). Gifts weren't required, but were brought anyway. It was so nice and relaxing. My MOH kicked a$$.
All the pictures are just of people sitting in a room, so you can't see pictures of the setup in them. The tea house took care of everything. We just showed up
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Mine was also pretty low-key. It was at Joe's American Bar & Grill in Woburn, since pretty much everyone had to travel. (My family/friends from western MA, his family from NH.) They got a private room in the back, brought in a cake, and selected a limited menu for people to choose from. No games, though; I was insistent about that.
What about asking everyone to send/bring a favorite recipe? I know someone who got a book of them at her shower a few years ago, and she really cherishes it. They were all hand-written, and some of her relatives have since passed away, so she loves pulling them out and feeling connected to her grandmother/great-aunts even now that they're gone.
Mine ended up being a true surprised. No one from DH's family wanted to come to MA for a shower so MIL told us she decided she wanted to host a 2nd shower in CT so I worked out with my mother and MIL when each would be. Well my mom really wanted the shower up here to be a surprised (even though I didn't want a surprise shower) and moved the date up 2 months.
So all the guests got there an hour before me and they had apps. When I showed up they played Bingo. It probably would have been better if they did that before I got there to keep people entertained. (I went to a shower last year when the bride was coming an hour after the guests and they had nothing to do, not even food out, and it was SOOOO boring.) Then we ate, then did presents.
I'm hosting (with other BMs) my friend's shower Saturday. We're going to do door prize drawings while people are eating and mingling. Then during presents we're going to set a timer and whom ever's present is being opened wins a prize. Just a little something to keep people's attention but nothing silly.
I went to a shower where the MOH asked the groom questions prior to and the bride had to guess his answers. If she got it wrong she had to chew a piece of gum. That was funny.
One fun game I heard about recently: the bridal party got a bunch of kitchen items and put them on a tray. The guests were told to memorize everything they saw and there would be a quiz. The bride showed off the items and left the room. Then they asked the guests to write down everything the bride was WEARING. Whoever got the closest won. I thought that was really cute. And good gifts for the bride!
That sounds perfect!
Thanks, it was a lot of fun!
My shower was wonderful. It was hosted by all my BMs at my IL's house. There were about 30 people. It was a tea themed shower.
The cake was a big teapot and my SIL made teacup cupcakes. Everyone brought a teacup as part of their gift so that I could start a nice collection. The food was like mini BLT's, fruit skewers, mini salads, and mini chicken salad sandwiches. Things like that. The favors were these little baskets with a rose shaped teabag in them (sounds weird... its hard to describe) and personalized m&m's and a teapot shaped cookie cutter. Very me... I love tea!
I don't have too many shower pictures
Ok... so I've never had a bridal shower, but I've thrown two showers... (Always the bridesmaid, never the bride...)
My BFF from college grew up here in Mass. and her Mom, myself and another friend through her an afternoon tea party for a shower. Her aunt has a beautiful home in Newton and agreed to host the party. We kept things very low key and really had a lovely time. The only "game" we played was a trivia game where we asked her fiance a bunch of questions and she had to think of how he would answer them. This was fun... and not to embarrassing. (BFF made it clear that she hated games... and frankly, not having attended a shower before, I did not know that games were a thing... I thought games at parties stopped at pin the noes on Elmo for your 13th birthday party...)
My sister's shower was beautiful. Her BFF from HS co-hosted the shower at her parent's home in Maryland. It was a warm, but lovely summer afternoon. We held the shower outside. Because I flew in the day before, we ordered a lot of the food. We kept the decorations very simple. Vases with limes and lemons and BFF had placed photos of my fabulous sister around the party. I believe we used a "time of the day" theme for her gifts and BFF assigned people the time. Which I did not really approve of, but it worked out just fine. (I don't mind the idea of the theme, but let people choose when ever they like...)
The showers were fun, but my BFF's bachelorette party was awesome... there was a "seductive chicken" involved.
Please tell me about the seductive chicken.