Bridal Shower Invitations That Invite Guests to Really Celebrate
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The cost of a wedding can cost more than most couples put down as a down payment on their first house. 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. Prospective brides now have an opportunity to throw great alternative bridal showers that their grandmothers most definitely were not allowed to. So get your thinking cap on and start brainstorming for the sake of the people who will receive those bridal shower invitations. If you are having a difficult time getting started, I will give you some ideas.
Something involving food or wine will always make people happy. Send out bridal shower invitations to a wine tasting party. Buy a selection of wines and have your guests help choose the wine that will be served at the wedding. 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. All your guests can write something on 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. You can have everyone write up their favorite recipe on snazzy paper. All the guests can then glue the recipe on a page in the book and decorate it however they want. You will think of your loved ones and your shower for years to come as you make all the yummy recipes as a couple. Another idea makes your guests work a little harder, but is all in good fun. Have your guests make an appetizer. Your guests vote on the best one via secret ballot (so no one will leave with hurt feelings). Serve the best hors doeuvre at the wedding reception by calling it by the guest who created it (The Sarah Simmered Stuffed Mushroom).
Let your guests receive those bridal shower invitations with a twitter of excitement, as they anticipate participating in something memorable and fun. Put your thinking cap on and come up with something different. Revel in the fact that you are hosting a fantastically fun party for the very people that will be toasting you and your partner.
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