Wedding Guide


eg: UK or Brides UK or Classical Art or Buy Music or Spirituality

Business & Money

Technology

Women

Health

Education

Family

Travel

Cars

Entertainment

Featured Sites

How To Throw A Bridal Shower

View:

Throwing a bridal shower can be a load of fun, whether it's traditional or creative, and especially if there's an original and personalized angle to it. Any party planner will tell you that the trick to throwing a successful shower begins with a great theme. Set the tone and launch the theme from the beginning with the invitations. Anything too close to the date gets in the way of wedding preparations and anything past a few months can be anti-climactic ? the perfect time to host a shower is one to two months before the wedding day.

Bridal shower games get the party going, and are great icebreakers. Here are some ideas:

1.Who Am I? Write the names of famous personalities on index cards. Attach a card to each guest's back as she arrives. The guest must not know whose name is attached to her back. To find out, she must ask the other guests for clues. The first person to identify the correct name is the winner.

2.Bride Trivia: make up trivia cards beforehand with questions about the bride ? ?how did she get the scar on her knee?? ?What was her first pet's name?? et cetera. Read the cards out to the guests. The guest that answers the most questions correctly wins a prize.

3.The Purse Game: the hostess draws up a list of items likely to appear in a woman's purse and allocates a point value to each item ranging from 1-5 depending on how uncommon the item is. An eyelash curler might be a 5 on the scale for example, a mirror a 3, and car keys a 1. The hostess might also decide to allow 10 bonus points for the guest who can produce the most outrageous item from her purse. The guest with the most points wins the game.

Popular bridal shower themes include tea party, where you can serve tea along with finger sandwiches, petite fours etc. You can also have an ethnic theme, where you use the bride's heritage to plan a shower with her favorite cultural foods. Serve fresh fruit, poi poi and tropical drinks at a Hawaiian themed wedding shower, for example.

Most often showers are afternoon or evening events, though any time of day is acceptable. Many bridal parties now take the bride out for a day at the spa instead of a shower. For an active Jack or Jill (couple) shower the party could be a beach barbecue complete with volleyball, Frisbee, music and dancing.

Article By Michelle O'Connor, Bachelor and Bachelorette Party Ideas

How To Throw A Bridal Shower

Are you tired of giving the same old fondue sets, personalized towels, and kitchenware to friends and family when someone decides to tie the knot? How about a few ideas for unusual bridal shower gifts that'll really make ‘em smile? Here are a few things you might just want to consider the next time someone you know and love is getting married. …

Spa Finder Gift Certificate

Now this is a bridal shower gift that you can present to the bride-to-be only or make it a double to include her groom. At www.SpaFinder.com, you'll find gift certificates available for everything from facials to body wraps to (of course!) full-body massages. A gift like this can be used by the bride (and/or groom) before, during the honeymoon, or after the wedding.

Easy to personalize with the names of the recipient(s), these gift certificates come in all sorts of denominations ranging from $50 to $1,000 in $25 increments. These are accepted at more than 3,500 spas around the world, but make sure there's one in the soon-to-be-married couple's neighborhood before you shell out the bucks! And while you're at the site, check out their candles, Harry & David assorted chocolate truffles, and other goodies created to pamper. You might want to buy a few things for yourself!

Custom-Created Oil Painting

You can give a bridal shower gift that will be cherished forever by having a custom oil painting done of the couple from a photograph. At www.WeddingShowerGifts.com, trained artists render remarkable likenesses in oil on real canvas for amazingly reasonable prices. Send them a picture of the bride and groom, and they'll send you back a rolled canvas (no framing offered) of the subjects in your choice of prices and sizes: 8”x10”, 12”x16”, 16”x20”, or 20”x24” priced from $90 to $470 plus shipping. From the time you send the photograph to them sending it back to you as a real oil painting only takes from between 15 and 20 days. The site also offers this service as a gift certificate.

Lottery Tickets

Now many people might frown on this as a bridal shower gift, but you'd be surprised at how happy the sight of them makes a prospective bride (or groom!). And if they win, well… You can bet they'll forever be grateful to you for having been so thoughtful as to give them the chance to win big bucks in the state lottery! Buy them in a bunch – 20 or more – to make enjoying them that much more exciting. Put them in a small box, wrap elegantly, and then present it with aplomb. You just never know! You might be party to making someone a millionaire!

These are just a few ideas to get you thinking outside of the box – the bridal shower gift box, that is – and on your way to giving a gift that's not only unusual, but always welcomed. So give it some thought! You're sure to come up with some great ideas on your own.

Related Articles
Author
Most Popular

•	Around The Clock Bridal Shower, by Nicole Owczarczak
•	Around The Clock Bridal Shower Invitations, by Gina Thompson
•	Black And White Bridal Shower, by Amanda Pinkston
•	Bridal Shower And Games, by Marcela De Vivo
•	Bridal Shower Card What To Write, by Nicole O.

About Author

Both Adam O'connor & Lynn Doxley are contributors for EditorialToday. The above articles have been edited for relevancy and timeliness. All write-ups, reviews, tips and guides published by EditorialToday.com and its partners or affiliates are for informational purposes only. They should not be used for any legal or any other type of advice. We do not endorse any author, contributor, writer or article posted by our team.

Adam O'connor has sinced written about articles on various topics from . Adam O'Connor is the owner of http://www.handheldguru.com which provides free information on handheld electronics. He is an expert in this industry and his website helps. Adam O'connor's top article . Bookmark Adam O'connor to your Favourites.

Lynn Doxley has sinced written about articles on various topics from Bridal Shower, Marriage and Bridesmaid. Visit Aragia.com for bridal shower favor tips.. Lynn Doxley's top article generates over 880 views. Bookmark Lynn Doxley to your Favourites.

Cost Of Rebuilt Transmission
You can confidently drive your vehicle for many years to come without worrying about faulty or defective transmissions