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Bridal Shower Ideas - New and Fun

sea shell bottle opener, seaside theme bridal shower

Often the bridal shower is a time when friends from all stages of the bride's life meet for the first time. Make it a sharing time when each of her friends can share their fondest memories of the friendship they've shared. Have each shower guest bring a favorite photo of a time or event they shared with the bride, and compile them in a special scrapbook as a heartfelt gift for her.

 

Co-ed showers are common today, and can ease the tension as the bridal party not only carries out their duties as attendants, but gets to know the people they are spending the day with. Break the ice early with a picnic, luau, ski weekend, beach party, brewery tour, river float, or even a scavenger hunt. The better your bridal party knows each other, the more fun they'll have on your wedding day.

Today, vibrant colors and modern themes are wonderful ideas for bridal shower invitations. Whether it is a classic silhouette design with a modern twist or toile bridal shower invitations, paper is a wonderful way to make a statement about you and the party.

 

Cute favor ideas for a beach-themed shower:

stylish dolphin bottle opener comes packaged in a gift box with ribbon  pineapple place card holder, a symbol of gracious hospitality and style  beach flip flop place card holder, handpainted details on 2 fun designs. Add photo, place card, or special message, use on buffet table to identify food items

sailboat tealight holder wedding favor, use as favors or scatter them on the table for a soft romantic glow  seashell gel candle wedding favor, tiny and perfect, ready to give in a clear gift box with bow  

Whether co-ed or traditional women only, the bridal shower can be more fun with a theme. Make it a casino night, a pool party, or a beauty make-over. Gift themes are also fun and can be personalized for the bride. Have a "Gardening Party" for the bride with a green thumb, or a "Library Luau" for the bookworm.

Shower Theme Ideas

palm tree favor boxes, perfect for candy or nuts Asian
Calla Lily
Cherry Blossom
Christmas
Cooking & Baking
Daisy
Destination
Fairytale
Fall
Garden
Hawiian Luau Theme
Hearts
Las Vegas
Love & Romance
Perfect Pair
Vintage
Wine Lover
Winter

These shower game ideas are actual submissions that have been collected from ladies all over the country by Wedding Details and the folks at Bridal Shower Bingo. Have fun reading them. Share your game ideas and photos by sending to linda@weddingdetails.com.

Hi Linda,

I loved reading all the ideas for shower games but didn't see this one. As a mother of 2 brides, this game is a BIG HIT with guests.

Design The Bride's Gown

Number guests in 2's. Each 2 decide who is going to be the bride and who is going to be the designer. Then hand all the designers a whole role of toilet paper and the designers are timed to create a gown in 5 minutes. This is hilarious and really fun, too.

From hip hugging, mini dresses to long pouffie gowns with trains, tiarias, bouquets, to whatever they can design you'll find is quite amazing!

The real Bride gets to choose which gown she likes the best. Prize is a 12 pack of T. paper of course! Enjoy!

Bev Rose, Oregon

Paint Ball Guess

At my niece' shower, we played another game that I thought up and had a blast laughing about. I took a quart jar and filled it with paint balls!! This is one of the things he loves to do - Paintball. So to give it a little more of a shower show, I put a dolly on top and tied her favorite color of ribbon around the jars top. I placed the jar in the middle of the floor on a wooden pedestal (give a little more class) and had each person guess how many paintballs were in the jar. The groom gets the paintballs and she gets the dolly and jar.

The Price Is Right Game With A New Twist

This such a blast!! You announce you are playing the prices right game. Each person is given a piece of paper and pen, to write down the cost of the items when you say, "and the price is". You can create a wide variety of ideas, but this is just one of them. My niece, who is not into the frilly things but more into hunting, fishing, etc., was given a picnic.

Start out with telling them to keep their love alive in their marriage they can have a picnic anytime, in the winter, rainy days, and yes, bug free by having one right in the middle of their floor for their man. Then you set your scene by first putting on a CD or Tape with bird music!!! Next place a blanket on the floor or table and say the price is...( in my nieces case I had purchased a camo blanket).

Next get out your picnic basket, and say the price is... (Your purchased picnic basket should already be equipped with plates,cups ect., you place these items out on the blanket). Next, place a purchased centerpiece and say, and the price is... ( but in my nieces ,I made a candle holder out of deer antlers and told them this was priceless.LOL)

Next place the drinks on the blanket and say, and the price is.... ( This could be a bottle of wine, etc., but for my niece is was a six pack of Mountain Dew). Next you can place a gift certificate on their plate and say, the price is...( it can be for Kentucky Fried Chicken ,ect.)

At the end, ask each one what they have as a total, and the closest person to that cost gets a prize !!! Be creative and have fun, but just remember your blanket always needs to be on top of the basket since it will be the first item laid out. Pack up your basket or leave out for others to see and give it to the Bride to be along with the bird music !!!