Planning a Wedding Shower
So your best friend is getting married! It is time to get friends and family together for a wedding shower. How do you go about planning a wedding shower? Here are the basics:WHO: Usually, it’s the maid of honor or best friend of the bride who organizes a wedding shower. Guests will include close girl friends, female relatives, and female members of the wedding entourage.
WHAT and WHY: A wedding shower is an intimate get-together to honor a soon-to-be bride before she moves on to a life of wedded bliss. It is not really meant to bring together a big group – the smaller the group, the more cozy and warm the party will be. Anything beyond 25 people might not allow enough time for interaction and bonding.
WHERE: Anywhere cozy, intimate, and comfortable. It can be held at the house of the maid of honor, the bride, or anybody else in the group who wishes to volunteer her place. You can also have it at a restaurant. Just make sure to choose one with private rooms so that you can have more fun without disturbing the other diners. A hotel room/suite/or small function room will also be ideal for such a party.
WHEN: Daytime or nighttime, anything goes. You’ll want to have it close enough to the date of the wedding but not too close. Having it too close to the wedding day may leave the bride too frazzled and you may not be able to find a timeslot in her so-so busy schedule. One month before the wedding or thereabouts should be fine. This will give the bride a break given all the wedding preparations and will allow her to savor the last few days of singlehood.
HOW: A two-hour get-together with simple snacks and food will do. Nothing elaborate. You can choose to do a potluck party or order party food to go. If you are having your wedding shower at a restaurant or hotel, then that makes the choice of food or menu simpler.
In the earlier days, themes for wedding showers revolved around the rooms of the house. You had bathroom showers, bedroom showers, kitchen showers, and so on. All gifts would then relate to the theme. For example, if you had a bathroom shower, you could probably gift the bride with bathrobes, shower gels, and anything else that she might have a use for in the bathroom.
You can try to be more creative with your themes, though. You can have an Around the World wedding shower and give your bride travel-related items or gifts from all around the world. You can have a Read Up party and give her appropriate books so she can read during her honeymoon. (Seriously!) You can also choose to have a Wacky Wedding Shower and give the bride humorous gifts which she can use to make her husband smile during a future fight (and they surely will have those.). You can also build your theme around a particular color if the bride is particularly fond of that. You can then have a Yellow Shower or a Pink Shower and all the gifts, as well as decorations, games, and activities should of course, fit the theme.
So, celebrate the bride’s remaining days as a single person with much creativity, warmth, and fun. She’ll remember you and be grateful for the rest of her life.
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