Bridal Shower Invitations and Food and Wine
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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. Bridal shower invitations often just obligate guests to purchase more presents. Guests should look forward to a bridal shower, not feel a tug on their bank account.
As more and more couples these days are in their 30s when they get married, the bridal shower should not be about presents. It should be about celebration. 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. One idea is to have all the guests bring the recipe of their signature dish. Have a nice blank book at the party for everyone to mount their recipe in and have them add any comments on a page dedicated to that recipe. 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. Each guest brings an hors doeuvre of their choice. 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).
Send out the bridal shower invitations and let your guests eat, drink and be merry. There are so many themes for a bridal shower that let your guests offer something other than a purchased gift. 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.
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