Bridal Shower Fun

A bridal shower is a monumental even leading up to your friend’s nuptials.  To show her how much she means to you, you want to throw her the party of all parties.  Don’t fret, as the Maid-of-Honor, this is your biggest task but you can handle it with ease if you approach it right.

The first step of the shower is to know your budget.  Just because you plan the shower doesn’t mean you have to foot the entire bill on your own.  This could be a task that is taken on by all the bride’s maids and even some other close friends and family that will be invited to the party.  Before you begin sending out the invites, know your budget.  With this in hand, you can tackle each part of the shower knowing how much you can spend on each category. 

Invitations come first.  You can save a lot of money by sending out evites instead of paper invitations.  Since most people live through their emails, this is a type of invitation that is gaining more and more attention as time goes on.  If this seems to impersonal, you could make invitations yourself and mail them a few weeks before the shower.  If you have a larger budget, you could really make an impression on your guests by sending out personalized candy bars as invitations.  With this, guests will receive a chocolate bar in personalized candy wrappers that contain all vital party information.

When you send out personalized candy bars as invitations, you need to make sure the weather will permit shipping without melting.  Getting a melted chocolate bar in the mail would send the wrong impression, don’t you think?  However, as long as the weather is not too hot, sending personalized candy wrappers as invitations is a great way to show guests just how special this shower will be.  From the get go, with personalized candy wrappers containing the theme of the shower right on the front, you have grabbed the attention of guests and they won’t want to miss the party.

 For some bridal shower special touches, you can do a few things.  Get together with some friends and decorate a special bridal chair for the guest of honor.  If your shower is a casual event, you could just wrap a chair in ribbons and attach some balloons to it.  If you have a more formal event to host, the bridal chair could be a wood chair you have picked up at a garage sale or flea market that you have specially painted for the bride-to-be.  This chair is where the guest of honor will sit when she opens her presents.

Because there is bound to be a wealth of knowledge and love at any bridal shower, it is memorable for the bride and for her guests if there are advice cards to be filled out.  These can be on specially decorated paper that you have place on each table.  3 x 5 is the perfect size.  Advice cards can also contain well wishes and can be placed in a specially decorated box.  The bride-to-be can read the cards aloud during the shower, which is always fun; or she can save them to read privately at home.

Planning a bridal shower can seem like a large task, but with the ideas here, you can make yours one to remember.