The Bridal Shower Diet
Rebecca is still in the throes of home improvement woes. I’m low carbing my brains off (yes off, not out…I seriously think my head has gotten smaller). In the midst of it all, we’re planning a wedding shower this weekend for our cousin.
Here’s the deal…we need help with ideas DTBMULFers. We’ve decided we don’t really like shower games. We’d rather do something that’ll result in a keepsake for the bride. Any ideas? (now…of course…I could’ve put recipe cards or something in w/ the invitations, but that would have involved NOT procrastinating…is there a better word for that? Concrastinating. Anti-crastinating?)
So, have any of you been to a shower that you thought was totally cool? ‘Cuz we want to be totally cool and we can’t do it unless we rip off the idea from someone else? Also…we’re not eating anything this week. Seriously. This whole goal of making a “lifestyle change” isn’t working. It’s all about losing a few lbs at this point. (I am bad, bad, bad!)
At my daughter’s shower, we asked the groom to answer 25 questions (examples: Which tickets would you choose- AC/DC, The Eagles, Spandau Ballet, or “Cats”; What is our favorite color for holiday lights?; What is the perfect sleeping temperature?, etc. All the guests then had to answer the questions and the one who “knows” the groom the best wins (hopefully that is the bride, but not always!). We then put the Groom’s answers in a frame as a keepsake, thinking it would be interesting for them to revisit years down the road. That was our only game, and we had a blast with it (especially when the groom’s mother only got 3 things right!). People said it was a lot of fun.
You can still do the recipe card idea, just change it up a bit. Pass out the recipe cards and then ask them to bring them to the wedding. Have a special basket at the wedding for them to put them in. This is what we did for my wedding because I was a procrastinator on that idea, too.
Another idea is to have fabric squares that each guest is given. They can each decorate their own square with a personal message for the bride and then you just sew the squares together, add a backing and you have a warm blanket with warm thought
I was at a baby shower where the hostess had everyone answer one of three questions. Why will mom-to-be be a good mother? What advice did your mother give you when you were small?
I can’t remember the third. Anyway, some answers were sweet, some were freakin’ hysterical. The mom-to-be had to read them out loud.
You could modify the questions to fit the bridal shower. What advice do the married ladies have to offer on long-term marital bliss? What should groom know about bride and bride’s past that he might not already know? etc. etc.
I invented a shower game called “Weapons of Mass
Destruction”…someone provide a tool box to the
future bride in her favorite color..each attendee
needs to bring a tool—hammer ,screwdriver, adze
I’m not sure what that is but i like to say it)…
anyhoo, you get the idea…after their marriage,
when the bride tells the groom that something needs
fixin’ and he doesn’t respond in a timely fashion,
she gets out her special box of “Mass Destruction”
and does the best job she possibly can (short of
burning the house down). The groom may be a little
more “Johnny on the spot” for the next home repair.
As for dieting, FAGETABOUIT!!! NO ONE IS
SUPPOSED TO BE SMALLER THAN THE BRIDE.
PS–the wedding I went to last weekend did wonders for my sef-esteem…the bride was beautiful but on the “hefty” side…she chose to wear a strapless wedding gown…she cut quite a figure during her side pose as she was well-endowed…but all i kept thinking about was that her hamhocks (upper arms) were bigger than mine…YIIPPEE!!!!!
Every guest is invited to bring in a card of piece of stationary upon which they write the best advice and the worst advice they were given as a newlywed. If time allows, the bride or one of the shower hostesses reads aloud some of the best. Then they are affixed into a scrapbook and given to the bride as a keepsake. (have some blanks available for folks who forget or procrastinate to write something at the shower). If you can’t catch folks via email ahead of time then just greet them at the door with the idea and either pass a blank book for them to write their thoughts in or hand out cards you will later put in the book.
We made a video with the groom, getting him to answer questions about his bride to be….we played the video and paused before his answers, providing the guests with multiple choice answers.
It was quick to make, the questions were a mix of funny (“what would the bride NOT want everyone at her shower to know?”) and sweet (“what do you love the most about your bride to be?”)
Have your guest email their fav recipes to you and put them all on a disk. It is a modern version of an old shower idea.
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