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Yay! She finally got engaged and now you have to plan her bridal shower. How exciting and overwhelming at the same time! You can choose to do something very simple or something completely extravagant. It’s basically planning a mini-wedding.<\/p>\n
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Who are you inviting to this bridal shower? Do you have the list of guests who are invited to the wedding? Have you considered coordinating with the groom? Work with the other bridesmaids\/maid of honour to decide who will be invited to this? If you want to ask the bride directly, ask her for a list but don’t share other details if you want it to be a surprise bridal shower.<\/p>\n
Once you have the guest list, invite them through mail, email, or give them a call. Let them know the date, time, location, theme, and other necessary information.<\/p>\n
I prefer to send a FREE electronic invite and used\u00a0evite<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(free, not an affiliate) for one of my good friend’s bridal shower. There were so many cute designs. We went with the Floral Tea Cup Shower design for a teapot bridal shower luncheon.<\/p>\n Where are you going to have this bridal shower? Is it going to at someone’s house, a restaurant, a private condo party room, or in someone’s backyard garden?<\/p>\n Be sure to check for space capacity. It is always better to expect a higher number of attendees than less. You also want to check for convenience. Do you find the location accessible? Is it easy to get to and for those who are parking at the location, where can they park?<\/p>\n What time do you want to host the bridal shower? You might need to do a survey with the participants and especially check the bride’s schedule (secretly, of course).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Depending on the location of choice, you can then decide on the decoration that will go with the place. Check with the manager or owner whether you can put some decorations up. If they say that you can’t, then it is less work for you and you don’t have to worry about it.<\/p>\n If you can decorate the place, choose a theme. It could be colour theme, princess theme, or whatever you feel that the bride would love.<\/p>\n For the bridal shower I helped decorated, we did an enchanted forest theme.<\/p>\n If you are interested in how to make the pom poms, check out our post on how to make the pom poms<\/a>.<\/p>\n Are you doing a potluck or catering if you’re doing it someplace other than a restaurant?<\/p>\n If you’re having it at a restaurant, you want to find something that most people will enjoy eating. Also, please consider the participants’ budget when choosing a restaurant.<\/p>\n For this friend’s bridal shower, we catered some wraps and asked for others to bring something for the potluck.\u00a0 People brought chicken, drinks, dessert, crepe cakes, and potato salads. It was more than enough that everyone who came could bring something home for an afternoon snack and more.<\/p>\nLocation<\/span><\/h2>\n
Decoration<\/span><\/h2>\n
This is the process how I decided how to decorate:<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Food<\/span><\/h2>\n