Plan Ahead for your Bridal Shower Favors
Bridal Shower Favors
A bridal shower is a pre-wedding event often hosted by a bride’s female friends and family. Etiquette dictates that all those who are invited to the bridal shower must also be invited to the wedding, but the guest list is always shorter (sometimes just the closest friends of the bride) and usually entirely female. There’s no rule that says bridal showers can’t be co-ed, but a bride’s shower can be a great time to kick back in an estrogen-fueled environment and talk about girlie things before the big day.
If you’re hosting a bridal shower, it can be a little nerve-wracking – especially if it’s your first time. Bridal showers can become mini events in themselves, and they have many of the components of the actual wedding, including food, centerpieces, and even bridal shower favors.
How can you be sure that the bridal shower favors you’ve selected will be as unique and interesting as the rest of your event?
Well, bridal shower favors have the advantage of not being intended for both genders. Bridal shower favors are more of a female thing, so traditional and universal gifts such as soaps and mini scented candles will always go over well. If you’re in a rush and don’t have much time to plan, these bridal shower favors are a good go-to.
If you have a little more time, and you want to make sure the
bridal shower favors you select will be the hit of your event, consider a mani/pedi set, elegant serving dishes (for olives or cheeses), or just purchase unique and flirty packaging for hand-made gifts like chocolate or jewelry as your bridal shower favors.
A bridal shower may be for showering the bride with gifts, but that doesn’t mean your guests have to go home empty handed!
Spring is here! Celebrate the reason for the season with beautiful, delicate, colorful spring wedding favors! Spring is a great time for garden weddings, beach weddings, and every other outdoor wedding in between. Tables under canopies of lush green foliage and bright spring blooms are only enhanced by numerous spring wedding favors that bespeckle the place settings. So what makes good spring wedding favors?
A primary element in spring wedding favors is color. Spring weddings are always bursting with color and are often much less subdued then their fall and winter counterparts. The season is full of life – so your spring wedding favors should match that energy!
Also, think about which activities a guest might be engaging in during this lively season: gardening, grilling, staying out in the backyard later in the evening, and indulging the sweet flavors of spring in the great outdoors. Practical spring wedding favors are always appreciated. Help your guests enjoy the weather by giving out lanterns, tea lights, honey pots, and serving trays.
Spring wedding favors are also fun as practical parts of your wedding. Allow guests to take home their martini glasses or fun seashell place card holder. Spring wedding favors reflect the beauty and happiness of the season, so share as many as you can with your guests!
Are you a DIY sort of bride whose main concern is boxing your favors – not ordering them? Wedding favor containers come in all shapes and sizes and are a perfect vessel for the DIY bride. So whip out the glue gun and keep the following tips in mind as you exercise your creativity on a few wedding favor containers:
Don’t leave your wedding favor containers until the last minute. Favors might not seem like such a big priority right now, but don’t let wedding favor containers wait until the week before. If you don’t have a choice (busy work schedule, other more-pressing DIY projects), enlist help from your bridesmaids to stuff wedding favor containers over a long weekend. Make the offer more appealing by offering drinks or dinner (and promises of everlasting loyalty) to your maids.
