Sometime in the near future, you might be invited to a bridal or wedding shower. The difference between the two occasions is one is strictly for the girls while the other is usually organized for the bride, groom and their couple friends.
If you are the bridesmaid, tradition has it that you ought to be in charge of organizing the bridal shower. Depending on how the bride feels about this gathering, you could either have it in the bride’s home, your place or out in a pub or restaurant. The celebration will also depend on how stressed the bride has become from organizing her wedding. If she is up to her eyeballs with the planning and is fretting over the big day, it would be a good idea to go out to her favorite restaurant and enjoy a good meal together with some wine and music.
Usually, the bride’s friends will present her with bridal shower favors when they meet at her all girls night or hen night as it is sometimes called. Gifts for this occasion would include, perfume, soap, bath salts, scented candles and lingerie. The idea behind all these tokens is for the bride to make herself look and feel good in order to attract her husband. On the other hand, if the bride is a person who loves cooking and spending time in the kitchen, her friends could present her with baking or cooking utensils. These gifts need not be big and expensive. As the saying goes, ‘it is the thought that counts’. If the bride is really close to the friends who are hosting the shower for her, she could actually tell them what she would like as a gift as this would make everyone happy.
If the couple decides to have a wedding shower, the mood and tone of the occasion would be rather different as both the bride and groom will be present, together with other couples. This party should ideally be hosted in someone’s home as the atmosphere will be more cosy and quiet and the organizer can have couple party games like charades or a quiz. When it comes to offering wedding shower favors, some ideas would include ‘his’ and ‘hers’ shower and bath gels, towels and other bathroom accessories. If the couple to be wed enjoys Japanese food and cooking for instance, you could shower them with a sushi making kit, green tea set, rice bowls or Japanese serving plates. Another suggestion would be Japanese recipe books. You could even take the theme a little further and give the bride a kimono, which is a traditional Japanese outfit. These are items they will treasure and perhaps after the wedding, they might invite you over for a Japanese meal!
Generally, bridal and wedding showers are held out of goodwill for the couple that is to be wed. It is a time when close friends and family members, who are usually of the same age group as the bride and groom come together in support of the couple and their happy day. One might argue that this can be done on the wedding day. True, but the wedding ceremony is much bigger and there are formalities to consider. At a bridal or wedding shower, there is more opportunity for intimate conversation and the feeling of being close to friends and family who have been there for you, all your life.
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