Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Choosing your style of bridal & wedding shower favors

By Aaron H.

The shower for the bride should be a lovely unforgettable experience to celebrate her happiness on becoming married women. The maid of honor usually gives the bridal shower; in this day and age, the bride usually has more than one shower, which can be given by any friend or relative. The main function of the shower is to help the new bride to be to establish her new household. She will be very busy before the wedding so the wedding shower should be well planed and held in advance. Select a theme, a color scheme, and the invitations can reflect this. Give plenty of time when you mail them for the guests to arrange to come on the designated day. It might be wise before the date is set to check with everyone and see if they are going to be available. Do not forget any important female relatives from either side. It is very important to have favors for your bridal shower also; e-weddingfavors.com is one of the best websites with a wide selection of wedding favors for the bridal shower in one location.

Plan and arrange for food and the cake, this does not have to be elaborate, just good food is appreciated. Cold cuts and sandwiches are nice to. If you have a really good cook in the crowd you might have them bake, a favorite of the bride has and have them decorate it. Usually the bridal shower takes place in the home but depending on the budget and how many people are invited, a room in a restaurant or buffet might be rented. This is another good time to give out wedding favors to show your appreciation for the guest's attendance. You might have a wedding favor at each place setting or if you are renting a room in a restaurant have the hostess hand out favors for the bridal shower as she greets the guests.

The most important thing at a shower, however, is for the day to be pleasurable, especially for the new bride and that should be the goal and objective for the host of the shower and everyone that comes to it. Sometimes this takes some thought and work. Do not copy everybody else's ideas, try to make the shower original, give it some new twists, and try new games. Think of new and inexpensive shower favors for wedding games, have a door prize.

Having the bride open her gifts is one of the main events at the shower. Someone, perhaps the hostess should be assigned to help her by clearing away the wrapping paper and writing down each gift and who gave it so there will be no confusion when the thank you notes are sent.

It is a good idea to have some bridal favors for any men that might turn up, usually there are a few there anyway for one reason or another, so be sure and have them. If there is a grandfather living in the house make sure he is included, he may not care for all of it but see to it he comes to the luncheon or at least has a plate of food carried to him if he does not want to come at all and has a chance to see the bride open her gifts. - 15437

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