Bridal Shower

If you are looking for a cute idea for a Bridal shower, let me share what we did for my Daughter`s shower. Our theme was cooking and the kitchen.  My daughter lived in Texas, and we had the shower in Ohio, so we served BBQ and the fixin's with cupcakes and banana pudding for desert. Yum, Yum!

Invitations:  In all the invitations I included a recipe card for each person to write their favorite recipe on, and bring it with them to the shower.  We had a recipe box waiting for them when they arrived. Now my daughter has a box of recipes from her loved ones that she and her husband can try out.

Decorations: I found paper at a paper craft store that had lime green and red in them, and were covered in kitchen equipment. They were 12 x 12 and made great place mats. I laminated them and they were ready to go. We found paper plates that were red checked, perfect for the BBQ, and lime green napkins that had white spoons, knife and forks printed on them. Perfect! At a craft store they had some large plastic coffee cups in a vintage kitchen pattern, and we put kitchen utensils in them for center pieces. More on that later!

Place settings with a laminated place mat.

My sister Debbie made my daughter an apron with wooden spoons on it, and she put "Kiss the Bride" on it with a lip kiss mark. We also had a diamond engagement ring headband with a veil attached. Both were worn by my daughter during the shower.

Great job Debbie, love the rick rack and the diamond letters!

Ice Breaker: There is a county in Indiana called Brown County, and it has a town called Nashville that is known for its antiques and country items. One of the stores on the main strip has every kitchen item you could imagine, old and new. I had no idea what some of them were used for, so I had to write them all down in the store when I bought them. I bought about 20 items, many were a dollar or less. I numbered them and laid them out on all the tables. Each person was given a numbered piece of paper and a beautiful flower pen made by my then 86 year old Mother.  Everyone could walk around, look at the items, talk about them and try to figure out what they were. There were many correct answers given, and even more hilarious ones.

Here are some of the kitchen items that the guests had to name? Any idea what number 14 is?

Name the Movie: We printed pictures from the internet of movie posters that were about weddings or brides. Removed the wording from the picture, numbered them, and posted them all over the room. This is one more game that everyone could walk around and mingle while playing.We gave them a numbered piece of paper and the fabulous flowered pens. Fun game!

Movie posters about weddings and brides were numbered and placed all the the party house.

Fill in the words to the song:  My sister Paula is always in charge of this game and I think we have it at every bridal or baby shower. Every shower must include a singing game. My family loves music and singing. It does not matter if we are good at it, we still love it. This game we wrote a line or two of lyrics of songs about marriage, weddings and love with a group of words missing.  Guests filled in the blanks and when we went over the answers we all sang the songs. Love It!

My Mom makes the most beautiful pens! She just turned 89 and is still making pens

Center pieces: I called my future Son in-law and asked him a bunch of questions about himself, like: what is your favorite color, what was your first pets name, what was your first job, what cute nickname did your Mom call you, etc...... I wrote the question on one side of a small card, and the answer on the back. I punched a hole in the card, tied a string on it, and then tied one to each cooking utensil in the coffee cup centerpieces. While my daughter was opening her gifts, a guest would pull one of the utensils out and read the questions to the Bride. If she got the answer correct, awesome, if she was incorrect or had no idea, she had to chew a piece of bubble gum. The idea was to not have her mouth stuffed with bubble gum when she was done. That was not the case for my daughter, she was stuffed with bubble gum.

There were questions tied to the wooden spoon and egg spatula. 

Gifts: As a parting gift each guest was given a wrapped package of vintage printed recipe cards. I found the cutest ribbon for the gifts and added a little metal "Thank You" medallion.

Adorable ribbon for the gifts and the little Thank You medallion just made them perfect! 

Hope you got some cute ideas for your next shower!