If you’re a bride who’s already stressed out dealing with the individual details that you have to attend to when it comes to the wedding ceremony and reception, take a deep breath. Take the stress of the planning from your mind for a little while and anticipate all the fun that you’ll have with the girls on your wedding shower!
Fortunately, it is up to your maid of honor or your best friend who has a big role in the wedding to plan the wedding shower, so all that is left for you to do is show up and enjoy.
Planning a Wedding Shower? Here are the Basics:
Again, it is up to the maid of honor to delve deeper into the details of planning a wedding shower. If this fun yet-a-bit-stressful task falls into your shoulders, don’t worry. Here’s a quick guide on how to plan a wedding shower:
1. The best time to hold a bridal shower is about six weeks before the wedding. Naturally, you need to make your plans before this so the minute that you learn that you are in charge of planning for the wedding shower, start creating your to-do list.
2. Remember that a wedding shower is a social event which is a bit more formal than the bachelor or bachelorette parties which are usually held a few weeks before the wedding. The female guests who are invited to the wedding shower traditionally bring gifts for the bride.
Would you like the guests to bring gifts which start with the bride and groom’s initials, for example? Or, would you like to have them bring something that the bride can use on her honeymoon? A kitchenware theme for the gifts is also a good idea.
To determine if you’re going in the right direction, have a talk with the bride to know what gifts she would rather receive for the wedding shower.
Think of a theme that you can use for the wedding shower.
Once you have come up with a theme for the wedding shower, this is what you can use as a basis for the wedding shower decoration.
A lingerie or pajama themed wedding shower, for example, will be a great bonding time for the bride and her friends. Just make sure that the wedding shower decoration will complement the main theme that you are going to use.
Attend to the little details.
Aside from the wedding shower decoration, make sure to set a budget for the event. Choose a venue where the shower will be held, make a guest list and send out the invitations. Next, plan the menu and determine which wedding shower favors you should give out.
Additional Wedding Shower Decoration Tips
If you’re holding the event in an informal venue such as the maid of honor’s house, you can go all-out in the wedding shower decorations. Find a suitably large chair that the bride can sit in and wrap it with white lace or satin. This can be her ‘queen chair’ which she can use while opening gifts.
Line up the ceiling with crepe paper wedding bells or white streamers painted with signs like “We can’t believe you’re getting married!” or “Im-PRESS him on your honeymoon!”
The messages can range from something sweet to something naughty – it can even be racy as long as you know that the bride is ‘game’.
No wedding shower decoration will ever be complete without flowers, so make sure that you have plenty of supply to decorate the room.
All in all, just make sure that the centerpieces, balloons, flowers, gifts and wedding shower favors all complement the theme that you have chosen – and the wedding shower that you are planning should go off without a hitch.
