First
Holiday/Occasion Bridal Shower
A Bridal Shower Theme
Wouldn't it be nice to get a head start on the holidays
for once? Even if every day seems like Valentine's Day when you're with your
spouse-to-be, it is always more difficult to plan something romantic for your
spouse than it is for your fiancé. Let your shower help relieve some of the
stress by showering you with necessities for the holidays. Each guest will be
assigned a different holiday to help the couple-to-be be prepared (depending on the
size of the holiday as well as the guest list, more than one person may be
assigned to each holiday). Be as funny, creative, and romantic as you possibly
can be with the assignments. A few lucky friends or family members will even get
to plan the couple's first anniversary!
For a complete selection of
Bridal Shower decorating ideas and some unusual
party favors, visit
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Bridal Shower Invitations
Send
a personalized holiday bridal
shower invitation and your guests will be wowed! At the bottom of
the invitation there is a spot to write in everyone's "assigned"
holiday, so they know what kind of gift to bring. The best part is
seeing all of the creativity in the gifts!
Sample List of Occasions
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First Anniversary
Birthdays Valentine's Day Leap Year Mardi Gras St. Patrick's Day Easter Passover Palm Sunday
April Fool's Day |
Cinco de Mayo
Tax Day Memorial Day Mother's Day
Flag Day Father's Day Independence Day Labor Day Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur |
Columbus Day
Election Day Veteran's Day
Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas Hanukkah Kwanzaa New Year's Eve |
First Holiday Bridal Shower Decorations
 At
the front door are your greeters - a
life-sized cutout of the
bride and groom featuring their favorite holiday! Instead of a guestbook or sign
in board, have plain craft ornaments laying out on a table near the entrance.
Have guests leave a short message for the bride and groom, or even a piece of
marriage advice. The happy couple will have a host of beautiful and touching
ornaments to hang on their tree for their first Christmas.
Bunches
of balloons in the bride's colors can decorate the entire room. Add a different
holiday themed
Mylar balloon to each bunch to tie in with the theme. You can decorate the
tables with holiday decorations, and the buffet and gift tables with special
occasion decorations. The best part is, the bride and groom can take home all of
the decorations to use in their home!
Here are
a few suggestions to get your ideas flowing -
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Valentine's Day
- Use a red table cloth and
conversation heart candles to decorate a table for this loved filled
holiday.
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Mardi Gras
- Think green, purple and gold for this table. Scatter some
beads and a few
gold coins on the table and you are all set!
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St. Patrick's Day
- Green, green, green! Poke a hole in the top of a
green hat and have balloons coming out of the top. Sprinkle Skittles and
more gold coins on the table (leprechaun gold at the end of the rainbow!).
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Easter
- Dig out one of your baskets and fill it with Easter grass, plastic eggs
and jelly beans.
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Cinco de Mayo
- Olé! A few
LED cactus margarita glasses filled with candy and a
sombrero and you have a fiesta!
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Patriotic Holidays
- Memorial Day, 4th of July, Flag Day, whichever... a
patriotic centerpiece surrounded by
patriotic confetti will do the trick!
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Halloween
- A
jack o'lantern and
creepy table sprinkles will make the table frightfully boo-tiful!
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Thanksgiving
- A
fall tinsel wreath with a vase of flowers or a pillar candle makes a
great fall decoration.
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Hanukkah
- Scatter
dreidels and gelt around a menorah. Mazel
Tov!
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Christmas
- Fill a clear bowl or low vase with Christmas ornaments. Or dig out that
crazy singing/dancing Santa, set him in the middle of the table, and
sprinkle
snowflake confetti across the table top.
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New Year's Eve
- A few noise makers and horns, surrounded by confetti will make everyone
want to countdown to midnight!
Bridal Shower Games and Activities
Here are a few fun bridal shower
games to play at your holiday theme shower:
"Love is..." - Write 25 romantic or sexy words on index
cards, such as throbbing, lips, passion, candlelight, roses, chocolate, and so
on. On another 25 index cards write some non-romantic images, such as ironing
board, wallpaper paste, bikini wax, nose hair, motor oil, and so on. Stack the
two piles separately, and distribute paper and pencil. Have each player draw a
card from each pile. When everyone has 2 cards, ask them to write a silly love
poem using the two words or phrases they have drawn. For example: "Roses
are red, they make me hot! Your eyes are sexy, your nose hairs are not!"
Have them read their poems aloud one at a time.
"Bride/Groom Trivia" - Test your partygoers' knowledge of
the bride and groom to be. I was at a party somewhat recently where we played
this game and it was really funny. Ask the guests questions like, "Where
did the couple go on their first date?" "How did the couple get
engaged?" "How did the couple meet?" The person who answers the
most questions correctly wins a prize.
See our
Bridal Shower Games
for more great ideas!
Bridal Shower Party Favors
Buy little boxes of candy (chocolates are a favorite), and wrap them up
like little presents. Doesn't everyone love to receive gifts? In fact, our
personalized candy bars make great
favors!
Another fun idea is to give a
little calendar or date book. And include a
personalized bridal shower pen with it so your guests can write down
all of the special events and holdays.
Or give each guest a
personalized bridal shower mint tin.
It's a sweet ending to a bridal shower no one will ever forget, especially the
happy couple who will remember it every holiday!
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