Seeking Ideas for Bridal Shower

At my shower, recipe cards were inclosed with the invites so i had a nice stack of new meals when i was married.

I also went to a "around the clock" shower. A time was given for each person to by a gift for. ex, buy something to be used at midnight, lunchtime, 4 AM, breakfast, 3 PM. It was fun and she got a great mix of gifts.

***Update: another fun thing to do. Ask someone to write down all of the comments the bride to be says as she opens her gifts. After she is finished opening, read it back with the title of "What Sally Will Say on Her Wedding Night" This is a riot.

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Try: www.orientaltrading.com for ideas and the whole gamut. Just type in "bridal shower" as a search word.

Or, go to www.marthstewart.com and do a search on bridal showers. They have tons of ideas too.

Good luck,
Susan

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How about a flower Party.You could stay in the bridal theme colors and everyone learns how to make a gorgeous bouquet. There is Flower Duet - right here in Redondo Beach who does this.

www.flowerduet.com

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R.,

Depending on how many people you are going to have at the party will depend on what kind of things you want to do. My sister's bridal shower was small, about 12 people and I had it at a Tea Room. All I had to do was come up with some ideas for party games, which were pretty simple since we enjoyed the tea and lunch and of course the pastries...plus, PRESENTS! So, there wasn't a WHOLE lot of planning I had to do.

**I did a book where I took polaroids of ALL the people at the shower and each one wrote something special (advice for the future) in the book below their picture. My sister loved it and keeps it out.

http://www.bridalshowergamesatoz.com/bridal-shower-party-...

http://weddings.about.com/od/theweddingparty/a/ShowerGame...

Good Luck!

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Hi R., I am a Pampered Chef consultant in the Fontana area and wanted to give you information on having a Pampered Chef Bridal Shower for your sister-n-law where we have fun learning new easy recipes and eating too! We can also play games and have prizes for the guest and of coarse a "special gift" for the bride to be! Let's get your sister-n-law registerd for the Pampered Chef Wedding Registry where she can get up to $200 in FREE products. Please give me a call or email me and I can go into more of the details.

Hi R. W. The Pampered Chef has an awesome Bridal shower theme. It includes invitations, the food and some truly fun, food games. While "edu-taining" the guests and the bride on fun food facts and money saving quick tips. Contact me so that we may personalize your sister-in-law's bridal shower. A little about me: Super fun, high energy Pampered Chef consultant of 15 years. Customer Service is Key!! ###-###-####

The best shower I ever gave was a "basket shower" or "container shower". All of the guests had to bring their gift in a container. I was so amazed at the creativity. There was a honeymoon basket wrapped in a straw handled basket with towels, suntan lotion, etc. There was a huge pasta bowl with spaghetti forks, pasta, sauce, wine, etc. As for food, the best and easiest is quiche. You can mix the egg mixture the night before. I use pre-made pie crusts (I the refrigerated section), preshredded cheese, pre sliced mushrooms, etc. For a really easy salad-get the ceasar chicken in the deli area at Trader Joe's. Toss it with a bag of arugala, a small jar of julienne sun dried tomatoes, a jar of kalamata olives, a half a jar of basil pesto. You can also add pine nuts. Have fun!

R.,
My thought is to find a theme that really part of your sister in law's personality. I am not much of a fussy kind of girl but we love hanging out with our friends. One of my showers was theme "Stock the Bar". Gift where glasses, bar carts and things along that line. We even got tikki lamps and we went out to the bar rather than the striptease stuff. The second bridal shower we had was a couples party and the guys watched football and the ladies did scrapbooking. We did gifts and ate football food. It was so much fun.

I'm a Mary Kay Consultant and was invited to do facials for the nice part of a naught and nice bridal shower. The guest purchase product from the brides wish list and I believe they did this with the naught part of the night as well. Now both of us already had houses all set up and did not really need new house funishing.

I say again find out what your sister in law loves to do and make it all about her. Good luck and have a wonderful time.

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