Kitchen and Recipe Theme Bridal
Shower
Have you ever been in the middle of creating the perfect culinary
masterpiece, when you suddenly realize that you don't own the most important
cook's tool that the recipe calls for? After you have to scrap the best recipe
you could possibly ever make (yes, you guessed it, for lack of that flour
sifter), you realize the value of those not-so-useless cook's tools. Prevent
this trauma for your bride-to-be with a kitchen theme shower.
In fact, in
addition to all of the kitchen utensils, why not give the bride-to-be some
recipes to accompany them (most of the brides we know have a culinary repertoire
of about 3 recipes… chicken, chicken, and spaghetti from a jar).
Kitchen
Theme Bridal Shower Invitations

Send an
"Ingredients for a Successful Marriage" invitation that includes a
recipe card. You guests will love sharing a cherished recipe with the
bride to be! Have guests send it back with their RSVP so you can compile
a recipe book to give the bride at her shower.
Or go with a fun
bridal shower invitation, and include a piece of cardstock that your
guests can fill out with a recipe. Use fun wording to let everyone know
the theme of the shower:
Join us for a Recipe and
Kitchen Shower!
Mindy "kneads" some help from
you
she soon will be cooking for
two!
Another wonderful idea is to have
a
caricature
custom made from
Creations For You. Hand drawn artwork of the bride cooking something up
in the kitchen will make a great invitation (and keepsake)! You can use it for
other decorations throughout the party too!
Spice up your invitations by
including mini wooden cutting boards (you can find
these at your local "Dollar Store", or mini replicas can be made out
of popsicle sticks) with the invite. Glue the invitations on to the boards, and then send the
boards each in their own padded envelope (or hand-deliver them). You can also
find mini whisks or other kitchen type accessories to illustrate the theme of
the shower.
Kitchen
Theme Bridal Shower Decorations and Party Supplies

Greet everyone with a
life-sized cutout of the
bride. You can use the artwork from your caricature or have the bride in her
wedding dress. You can dress it up by placing a personalized apron or chef hat
on the cutout.
Next to the cutout place a sign in
board where guests can leave advice and good wished to the couple. Again, if you
had a
caricature made you can have that made into a sign
in board by Creations For You. A
personalized sign-in board
with a photo is another great option. Or set out a
personalized guest frame with an engraved nameplate.
Decorate the room with bunches of
pastel latex balloons. Alternate a
wedding dress balloon and a
wedding cake balloon in each bunch. Use kitchen themed balloon weights as a
creative touch (measuring cup, cutting board, small sauce pan...) which the
bride can keep after the shower.
Fill Tupperware and other food
storage containers with flowers and place them around the room. Everyone will be
so impressed with your kitchen theme decorations!
Kitchen
Theme Bridal Shower Table Decorations and Menu
Let the bride-to-be and the rest of the guests sample some of the recipes
that were given to the bride. Have a potluck! You can ask a few of the close
relatives to bring the classic family dishes. That way you can be sure they menu
works well together. You can set it up buffet style (the best way to go for a
shower), and set out some cute
bridal shower paper goods.
In the middle of each table, place a utensil holder
filled with tools. Make each table full of different tools (have enough of the
tools to give one to each guest at that table as a favor), or fill the holders
with a bunch of different tools on every table and let the bride to be take
them all home.
Set out a few cute
mini graters on each of the tables. They are super cute decorations and
guests can take them home as favors after the shower.
For another idea, you can find a bunch of different recipes in cookbooks by
famous chefs (Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, Graham Kerr, etc.), and lay out all
of the ingredients as well as a card with the recipe on it in a basket. At the
end of the shower, one lucky winner will take home the centerpiece.
If you are going to have assigned
seating, make your own seating cards and table numbers by cutting out a picture of a kitchen utensil from a
magazine or catalogue (pictures of most cook's tools can be found in the
Williams-Sonoma catalogue), and mirror it to the tool(s) that represents each
table. You can also find some great clip art that represents kitchen items.
Try tying mini utensils to seating cards for another look.
For a complete selection of
Bridal Shower decorating ideas and some unusual
party favors, visit
Bridal Shower and Decorating411.
Kitchen
Theme Bridal Shower Activities
Here are a few fun bridal shower
games to play at your kitchen theme shower:
"Spice up the Party" - Have a number of different spices
covered up so that you cannot tell which spice you are holding. On the cover
of each one there should be a number. Give each guest a piece of paper with
identical numbers to the ones on the spices. As each spice is passed around
(without its top), everyone has to guess what each spice is and put their
guesses next to each number on the paper. Whoever guesses the most correctly
wins a prize and the bride gets to keep all the spices!
"House Tool Trivia" - Have each guest bring a household
object that is not easily identified, such as a caviar spoon, tea infuser
spoon, citrus juicer, crab cracker, etc. (Many of these neat cooking utensils
can be found at Williams Sonoma). Distribute paper and pencil and ask players
to try and guess what each object does. The player with the most correct
answers is the winner. Present a basket of the objects to the winner.
"Recipe Riot" - Have each guest bring a wonderful
dessert/appetizer/main course to the party (make sure to split all guests into
specific categories so everyone doesn't bring the same type of dish). Have
each guest try a little bit of each dish, and then have them vote for their
favorite dish in each category (besides their own). Give the guest of honor a
beautifully decorated box (or album) of yummy recipes from her family and
friends. (There is also a blank recipe book that can be found at larger
bookstores. You can have everyone write their recipes, and maybe a memory or
two in that book instead of the box).
See our
Bridal Shower Games for more great ideas!
Kitchen
Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors

There are so many different
options for favors for this type of shower. I love these
personalized bridal shower mint tins
(there is even a kitchen theme one).
Or maybe a cute set of salt and
pepper shakers? Here are a few of our favorites:
A small recipe box with cute blank cards is also a cute and relatively
inexpensive take home favor. You can add a utensil from the centerpiece on
each table to the take home favors for each guest.
Have fun at your kitchen and
recipe theme bridal shower!
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