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Bridal Shower Party Ideas...
Second Wedding Showers:
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wedding for the bride and groom or both, they no doubt have a fully supplied
household and don't need the same items a couple just starting out would
need.
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| Activity Ideas:
Make a shower a night out for the couple.
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| Menu Ideas:
Anything goes!
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| Gift Ideas:
Go for the unusual in gifts! Have guests
pool their money to buy the couple something fun; give them a gift certificate
to dinner at a classy restaurant; or register them for ballroom dancing or a
couple's massage class.
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Bridal Tea Shower:
| Elegant brides and guests
will love a Bridal Tea.
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| Activity Ideas:
Invite guests to wear fancy hats and gloves, or search flea markets or antique
shops for hats guests can wear during the tea. Research how to properly
brew tea and the customs of taking tea and share what you have learned with
the guests.
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| Menu Ideas:
Serve properly brewed tea, along with fancy tea
sandwiches and desserts.
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| Gift Ideas:
Gifts can be from any general category.
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| Decorations:
Use lace tablecloths and napkins, crystal vases and
silver serving dishes. Use your finest china for serving and rent silver
tea services for the tea. Decorate with lacy parasols and bouquets of
fresh flowers.
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| Favors:
Guests can go home with assorted packets of tea or pretty tea cups or
teaspoons. |
Garden Bridal Shower:
| Invite guests to a shower
that will help the bride and groom get started or help maintain their yard and
garden. Host the shower at a beautiful park or garden.
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| Activity Ideas:
Ask guests to bring cuttings from their own gardens for the couple to start in
their own. Also, guests can bring their favorite seeds to be planted in
the couple's garden.
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| Menu Ideas:
Salads and sandwiches from in season fruits and vegetables, and serve
beverages. Edible flower adornments on dishes add the perfect
touch!
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| Gift Ideas:
Garden tools and accessories, or a gift certificate to a
nursery, florists or greenhouse.
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| Decorations:
Decorate with the bounty of the garden. Fresh flowers arrangements tied
with a colorful ribbon and straw gardening hats amid the flowers for
centerpieces. Add a nametag to colorful gardening gloves clutching
miniature garden tools for place cards.
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| Favors:
Guests can take home their gardening gloves place cards for favors: prizes can
be centerpieces of straw hats. |
Couple's Bridal Shower:
| Invite couple friends of
the bride and groom to celebrate the upcoming marriage.
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| Activity Ideas:
Ask each guest to share stories of their biggest challenges and to give advice
for keeping a marriage loving and exciting. Play the dating game for
quite a few laughs.
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| Menu Ideas:
Make the menu interactive such as create your own pizzas
or submarine sandwiches.
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| Gift Ideas:
Bring gifts the couple can use together, such as his and
hers matching bathrobes and/or towels, outdoor games, indoor board games or
books.
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| Decorations:
Find old movie posters or prints of famous couples throughout history and
display them at the party.
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| Favors:
Take snapshots or digital photos of each couple with the bride and groom at
the shower, and provide the couple with a printed of the photo and or frame
for displaying it.
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