Be creative – you could have it at a home or restaurant, but equally an outdoor picnic, the beach, a bakery for brunch. You may already know where you’ll be hosting the party, and that will give you some ideas and also some limitations.
When deciding on the kind of party, you’ll want to balance your ideas with both budget and with venue. If you do have a theme, it can be anything from a full-scale dress-up party (Hawaiian luau anyone?) to just a colour scheme or a motif. Now you have the first steps covered, you can start on the fun stuff! What sort of shower are you going to throw? Will it be just the girls, or a Jack & Jill shower (a joint party for bride and groom)? Will you have a theme? Your starting point for any of this should be your bride – what does she like to do, what does she like – the more personal, the better. Sip Sip Hooray Bachelorette Party Banner by Lantz and Lady What Type of Bridal Shower? Once you have established a good date, send out an email to everyone on the list to ask them to keep the date open – you can send proper invites later, if you like. Most showers are thrown within around a month before the wedding, but if, for example, the bride’s sister is flying in from Australia a few days before the wedding, you may need to make it then (DO tell the bride the date in this case, so she can plan around it). Chat to the VIPs first, to see if there are any limitations you need to take into account. There’s one HUGE golden rule here: don’t invite anyone who isn’t invited to the wedding (unless it’s someone who would have been invited but can’t make it). who you will want to take into account first when choosing a date). I’d really recommend talking to the bride about this, because nobody is going to have as clear an idea of who should be there as she will! Even if you keep everything else a surprise, ask her for a list of names and addresses, and also ask her which guests are the most important (i.e. The first question to ask when planning a shower is who will be attending.(For more info on the etiquette of who pays for what, see this post.) Whoever is the official host, be sure to take up offers of help from friends and family who would love to be involved, and let everyone know what their job is well ahead of time. Brides have even been known to organise their showers themselves, especially if their bridal party lives out of town. Moms and moms-in-law do often want to get involved, and sometimes a colleague will throw a mini-shower for the bride at work. One of the first questions people often ask is “who should throw the bridal shower?” This isn’t as clear-cut as it used to be, but generally, it falls in as one of the Maid of Honour’s (or bridesmaids as a group’s) general duties.
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PLANNING A BRIDAL SHOWER CHECKLIST PDF HOW TO
So here’s everything you need to know about how to plan the perfect bridal shower. It’s such a special gift to give one of your best friends – an afternoon with her favourite people, celebrating their relationships with her – but it doesn’t happen by magic. If you scroll to the end, you’ll even find a very handy printable bridal shower timeline and checklist that your Maid of Honour or bridesmaids can use to help them in their planning, so don’t forget to pin it! I’ve thrown quite a few showers in my time (both bridal and baby), and organisation is the key to make it as stress-free for the planner as well as for the bride and guests as possible. (You can hear the podcasts here.) To tie in with my interview, I thought this afternoon I would post the complete SBB guide to how to plan the perfect bridal shower (that is, the more sedate day-time party!). This time, we were talking all about bridal showers, hen dos, kitchen teas, bachelorettes – whatever you want to call them, I shared lots of info and ideas for bridal shower planning. If you follow SBB on Facebook you may have seen that I was invited back this last Tuesday to chat to the lovely Yolanda Martens at OFM, a radio station based in Bloem, as part of her wedding planner series.
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