Bridal Shower Tips & Advice
I know that mostly brides to be will be reading this blog, but perhaps you can print it out and hand it to whomever is organizing your Bridal Shower. Or just leave it hanging around the house for your mom, sister, friends, to see.
These tips have been compiled through my experience with my own daughter’s showers as well as helping to plan others. Heed them when you can. Many of them will save you a lot of work and be a lot of fun.
1. As the Bridal Shower guests arrive, have a beautiful “sign in” book there for them. Here they can write a beautiful thought that you will cherish for years to come. In fact, there is a guestbook and pen set on my website that is on sale for so little you won’t even believe it. I just hope by the time you read this, it’s still on sale!
Check it out and many more!
2. So how do you get all the addresses for the thank you cards. A bridesmaid should stand next to the sign in book. As guests arrive, after they sign in, she should hand them a 3 x5 card to put their name and current address on. Then have a colorful cardboard box with a slit on the side available for them to put it in. Halfway through the shower, you choose a name and they get a prize, and you have all their names and addresses for thank you cards!
3. Before the shower itself, fill out name tags for each guest but make it more personal. For example, Bella, Mother of the Bride. Or Louise, Bride’s Aunt. Things like that using Friend, Cousin, whatever. This makes the shower more personal and people get to know each other easier.
4. In the Bridal Shower invitation, tell the guests to bring a recipe on a recipe card with their name on it and where they got the recipe from. Buy a recipe book and as the shower is in progress, pass it around and have everyone slip there’s in the book. It’s very practical and also a wonderful keepsake.
5. Compile a list of the bride’s favorite songs on a couple of cd’s. Have them played during the shower. It’s very personal and the bride will love it!
6. Consider having a “Tea” instead of a full-blown lunch or dinner. They usually take place mid-afternoon on a Saturday or Sunday and are very elegant and much less expensive. They are the up and coming thing to do now. Also, you HAVE to check out our Teapot Unique Wedding Favor OR Bridal Favor.
That’s a Collector’s Replica Teapot that is exclusive to Designs to Remember. I just LOVE that one!
7. Put a disposable camera on each table so that you will have pictures of all the guests at each table. This is normally done for weddings and not showers which doesn’t make much sense to me. Because at a wedding you have a photographer. Normally at a shower you do not. So a camera here, makes more sense. No?
8. Make sure the Maid or Matron of Honor toasts the bride. This seems to be a forgotten tradition that really is beautiful and can be very touching. And if it’s a small bridal party, perhaps each person could say something about the bride. Or they could even recall a funny moment in planning the shower…whatever…just something charming and personal to the bride-to-be.
That’s it from here for now. Hope these little tips helped a bit. Just plan ahead. Think it all through and you will have a very successful Bridal Shower.
Much happiness coming your way,
Bella
Unique Wedding Favors
These tips have been compiled through my experience with my own daughter’s showers as well as helping to plan others. Heed them when you can. Many of them will save you a lot of work and be a lot of fun.
1. As the Bridal Shower guests arrive, have a beautiful “sign in” book there for them. Here they can write a beautiful thought that you will cherish for years to come. In fact, there is a guestbook and pen set on my website that is on sale for so little you won’t even believe it. I just hope by the time you read this, it’s still on sale!
Check it out and many more!2. So how do you get all the addresses for the thank you cards. A bridesmaid should stand next to the sign in book. As guests arrive, after they sign in, she should hand them a 3 x5 card to put their name and current address on. Then have a colorful cardboard box with a slit on the side available for them to put it in. Halfway through the shower, you choose a name and they get a prize, and you have all their names and addresses for thank you cards!
3. Before the shower itself, fill out name tags for each guest but make it more personal. For example, Bella, Mother of the Bride. Or Louise, Bride’s Aunt. Things like that using Friend, Cousin, whatever. This makes the shower more personal and people get to know each other easier.
4. In the Bridal Shower invitation, tell the guests to bring a recipe on a recipe card with their name on it and where they got the recipe from. Buy a recipe book and as the shower is in progress, pass it around and have everyone slip there’s in the book. It’s very practical and also a wonderful keepsake.
5. Compile a list of the bride’s favorite songs on a couple of cd’s. Have them played during the shower. It’s very personal and the bride will love it!
6. Consider having a “Tea” instead of a full-blown lunch or dinner. They usually take place mid-afternoon on a Saturday or Sunday and are very elegant and much less expensive. They are the up and coming thing to do now. Also, you HAVE to check out our Teapot Unique Wedding Favor OR Bridal Favor.
That’s a Collector’s Replica Teapot that is exclusive to Designs to Remember. I just LOVE that one!7. Put a disposable camera on each table so that you will have pictures of all the guests at each table. This is normally done for weddings and not showers which doesn’t make much sense to me. Because at a wedding you have a photographer. Normally at a shower you do not. So a camera here, makes more sense. No?
8. Make sure the Maid or Matron of Honor toasts the bride. This seems to be a forgotten tradition that really is beautiful and can be very touching. And if it’s a small bridal party, perhaps each person could say something about the bride. Or they could even recall a funny moment in planning the shower…whatever…just something charming and personal to the bride-to-be.
That’s it from here for now. Hope these little tips helped a bit. Just plan ahead. Think it all through and you will have a very successful Bridal Shower.
Much happiness coming your way,
Bella
Unique Wedding Favors
