Bridal Shower Invitation

Weddings can be ridiculously expensive. Many couples get lost in the details of table decorations and menu planning and forget about the whole idea of gathering loved ones together to help them celebrate their nuptials. The once sweet and innocent bridal shower has even been infected with the materialism bug. Guests who receive bridal shower invitations often cringe at the thought of having to buy yet another gift for the same couple. Guests should look forward to a bridal shower, not feel a tug on their bank account.

In this day and age when couples are waiting longer to get married and are already established in their careers, there should be a trend in bridal showers toward more fun and less gifts. There are many ways to throw a bridal shower that get away from the traditional “buy a mixer and toast the pure bride” mold. So get your thinking cap on and start brainstorming for the sake of the people who will receive those bridal shower invitations. I will give you some freebies, in case you need a jump start on the brainstorming.

Something involving food or wine will always make people happy. Send out bridal shower invitations to a wine tasting party. Your guests can taste and then choose the wine that will be downed at the wedding reception. You can buy jackets for the wine to hide the labels and allow everyone a chance to comment and vote on their favorite bottle. Another option is to have a “stock the wine cellar” party, in which everyone brings a bottle to stock your home collection. Have sharpie markers on hand, so guests can sign the bottles. You will smile whenever you get a new bottle out of the collection in later years, as you toast to the person who gave it to you.

Food and cooking can be the centerpiece of the party too. One idea is to have all the guests bring the recipe of their signature dish. All the guests can then glue the recipe on a page in the book and decorate it however they want. You then have a cookbook of tried and true recipes and will remember your friends every time you make something from it. If you have culinary geniuses in your circle of friends, you can go with something more advanced. Have your guests make an appetizer. Let the attendees choose the best one by casting votes on slips of paper. Serve the best hors doeuvre at the wedding reception by calling it by the guest who created it (The Sarah Simmered Stuffed Mushroom).

Send out the bridal shower invitations and let your guests eat, drink and be merry. Put your thinking cap on and come up with something different. You will be happy that you did not put pressure on anyone to buy you more gifts and will have fun appreciating the fact that your guests are there to help you celebrate.

The saying “First impression is the best impression” - holds true for most endeavors in life. This is exceptionally true for any woman’s Bridal Shower Party, which to my mind is one of her most treasured occasions.

The starting point for any bridal shower is of course the invitation. A sophisticated and chic bridal shower invitation is a precursor of the event to come. The sort of paper and the choice of words used will give invitees an insight into who you really are. Too loud or flashy bridal shower invitations are a put off unless of course, you belong to the ‘Bling brigade’!

You also would like to stay clear of an impression of being a stuffed shirt (or is it skirt!). So what you need is a well-balanced, neat piece of prose. More info. I personally feel that consulting a professional for designing your bridal shower invitations helps, because rarely are we ‘Wordsmiths’ of the right kind. You may want to look at some of the companies and products dealing with bridal shower invitations available over the net are pretty good and worth the money. So take your time and choose well, after all, it would be a most memorable day. Click here to read more.

My best friend and I recently threw a wedding shower for a college friend. To be original, we decided to make our own wedding shower invitations. We considered ourselves pretty creative people. We got lots of practice sewing and bedazzling things on the cheap, since we were in a sorority. We took that confidence and started off on our adventure to make the perfect wedding shower invitations. To help all those who follow our footsteps, we decided to write up a summary of our lessons learned.

Make sure the bride is okay with giving you full creative license with the wedding shower invitations and the shower. I do not mean that you have to spill the beans on your idea and ruin the surprise. But some brides have very definite ideas of what their showers and weddings will be like. It is my belief that women like that would probably never agree to hand over the planning reins to someone else other than themselves in the first place. You can move onto the design phase if you already know the bride is cool with you doing whatever you want.

There are a million different designs for wedding shower invitations, so I am not going to babble on about what you can make. They should probably relate to your theme in some way, but do not have to. If a more traditional shower is planned, then just make wedding shower invitations that are fun, groovy, gorgeous or memorable (or all four).

Now, listen closely, because this next paragraph is what is most important. Make sure you go over the message on your wedding shower invitations with a fine tooth comb. I like to have a person who has not been knee deep in the invitation making factory take a look at it. I have seen lots of tips that say your invitations should be written in proper British English. I do not think that is totally necessary, unless you are inviting the Queen. Quality check everything, so that there are no grammatical errors or misspellings. It is essential that the invitation recipients have the right date and time for the soiree. Verify the location name and the address. If the address is confusing, include directions. Make sure to tell people to reply as to whether they will be able to attend or not. Some people assume you do not need to RSVP if you are not going to attend. Conversely, there are plenty of people that assume you know they are coming unless they tell you no. This makes planning difficult. Now, there will always be a couple people who show up unexpectedly or cannot make it at the last minute. But, by making it explicit on the wedding shower invitations, you increase your odds of a good headcount tremendously. Having a clear RSVP statement, however, will give you a better chance with planning. If it is a coed party, make sure there is something in the invitation about that too. Lastly, if you are hosting a themed party, make sure your guests know what to wear or bring. “Come dressed as your favorite rock star from the 80s and bring a bottle of wine to stock the cellar.”