Thought I'd share the ideas I used from Pinterest for my sister's bridal shower this past weekend. First, I began the planning (since I'm the maid of honor) by asking all the bridesmaids if they were able to help and contribute items, time and money to the event. I am blessed and all were willing and able to help. We met once to plan who was doing what, then communicated through Facebook messaging, a spreadsheet and phone calls to make sure everything was taken care of. In the end it ended up being fun to set up and with all the help it was much less stressful!
The Idea: Attached to the invite was a recipe card and instructions to the guests to write down a favorite recipe and then if they wanted to to bring a small portion of that recipe to the shower. Everyone brought something delicious and it actually ended up being WAY too much food! The guests then brought their recipe card and dish to the shower and dropped the recipe card off in a recipe gift box for the bride.
The Decor: ( Again, I'm new to blogging so I didn't take as many pics as I should have!)
We tried to keep it simple with a red, pink and cream color scheme and it ended up being beautiful. The pictures are at the end of this post :)
Gifts for the Bride:
Advice Spoons: (Guests wrote advice on the wooden spoon with a sharpie)
Mugs : (Guests wrote a special note pm two mugs, one for the bride and the other for the groom)
Games
The Pin Game: Guests get a pin when they enter and throughout the party can't say three words related to getting married. Our words were the groom's name, wedding and honeymoon. If someone hears you say one of those words then they get to take all your pins. The one with the most pins at the end of the day wins!
Guess the Panties Game: Buy a bunch of cute panties in the bride's size and stuff them in a jar. Have the guests guess the number of panties in the jar. The person closest to the number wins a gift and the bride keeps the cute undies!
Pass the gift: (my sister found this game, and I'm not sure where she got the idea so I will ask)
Unscramble The Wedding Words: Each guest gets a list of jumbled words that I printed FREE from here and then within 1:30 secs whoever can figure out the most words wins!
Toilet Paper Dress: Divide the guests into teams of 3 or 4 and give them 2-3 rolls of toilet paper then have them dress one member of the group within 3 minutes. The judge or bride get to decide what team made the best dress! The winning team gets a prize!
The party ended up being so much fun and everyone left commenting on how much fun they had and how beautiful it was.
What bridal shower ideas do you have?
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