A garden theme bridal shower is a fantastic way to shower the bride to be with love, affection and gifts of course! The best place to have a garden party is of course in your garden or backyard or patio. Anyplace outdoors can be adapted to the garden theme party. If you have access to a front lawn or backyard that is well designed and has a little pond and pretty flowers, you will save time and effort on the décor as well as having a great ambience!

Garden Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Buy long stemmed flowers and with each flower attach a note with the details of the party. Send them out to friends and family.
• If you know where you can get banana leaves this idea works really great. Banana leaves are really large in size. So buy a silver or gold marker and write out the invitation details on the leaf itself! You could use leaves of any tree that are large enough to put down all the required details.

Garden Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• If the party is being held in a garden blooming with flowers that already takes care of most of your decorations. If the venue seems a bit bare, put potted plants all around the area. You can rent out planters or just borrow them from family and friends. You could even ask the guests to carry along a potted plant each.
• To add to the festive ambience you can cut out large butterflies from colored paper and hang them from trees and shrubs all around the garden or patio. You could also cut out over sized beetles, ladybugs and little birds.
• You can use transparent organza in white and drape it on arches or boughs to give a regal look to the whole party.

Garden Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Bring out the spiked lemonade and long island iced tea. Use stirrers with flower shaped handles to get with the theme.
• Serve chips and dip, tiny sandwiches and pastries. Let the pastries be shaped like flowers, the sandwiches can be leaf shaped and the dip – some things are best left as they are!

Garden Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• Buy a dozen or so unique flowers and ask the guests to name each flower. The guest with the maximum number of correct answers wins.
• Set up a scavenger hunt around the garden. It can be great fun!
• You could set up garden games like croquet also.

More bridal shower games

Garden Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Heart shaped pressed flower keychains in organza bags
• Flower pot shaped plantable wildflower favors
• Glass hand painted daisy candles
• Pressed garden leaves photo albums

More bridal shower party favors

Copyright Andrea Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

The real show stopper for this theme is actually being able to gift the bridal couple a honeymoon. Either all the guests at the bridal shower can get together and chip in money to send the couple on a honeymoon. Optionally, if the couple’s parents or siblings or anyone is planning to sponsor their honeymoon, get them to come to the shower and surprise the couple.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it is a prerequisite. A gift certificate for a day at a luxury spa works just as well with the theme.

Travel Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Design the invitations to look like airplane tickets with the boarding, departure, destination, date and other details. You can easily print these from a computer if you have access to one.
• Get miniature life jackets or floats and invite all the guests to ‘Cruise’ with you at the bridal shower.
• You can buy miniature travel luggage and fill it with candy. Send out along with the invites.

Travel Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• Bring out your entire luggage and use it as seating instead of regular chairs.
• You can get inflatable boats and place them at the entrance. Put all the party favors in one of the boats and ask the guests to take one each on their way out. Use another boat to hold all the gifts.
• Hang cut outs of airplanes or paper Origami airplanes all around the room.

Travel Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Airplane food it is! Serve it in an airplane style using a tray and snacks that can be served cold or just need to be heated in the microwave.
• Croissants, donuts, chips, bagels.
• Serve small bottles of juice, coke or if you want to go First Class – get mini wine bottles!
• Circulate a basket of fruits as well.

Travel Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• Make a list of 20 odd countries and their capitals. Give the guests a list of the countries and ask them to name the capital cities. The guest with the most correct answer wins.
• Get a really tiny carryall and a whole lot of clothes. Give each guest 1 minute to pack her bag. The guest, who can fit the maximum number of clothes in the bag within the allotted time, wins.
• Divide the guests into groups of 4 or 5. Give each group a bag with miscellaneous items like a sarong, some flowers, pieces of cloth of varying length, newspapers, caps, beads, string and the like. Each group must dress up one person from amongst them in the National dress of the country or destination of their choice. Example: a Hawaiian belly dancer, a Japanese girl or a Muslim woman from Saudi. You could change this to a State based game limited to the United States also.

Travel Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Handpainted sailboat place card photo holders.
• The perfect pair miniature flip flop floating candles.
• Personalized Adirondack chair tealight placecard holder with candle.
• Petite purse favor bags with candy.

Marriage is truly a journey and a travel themed bridal shower will start the trip off with a festive feel of excitement for the new experiences to come.

Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

Old Is Gold Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Cut out large flowers and write the party details on that.
• Write the party details on a piece of cloth using a black marker. Get miniature bell-bottoms and stitch the party details onto them.
• Get chocolate Cadillacs and send them out with the invitations.

Old Is Gold Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• Go sixties! Put different colored cellophane on the lights in the room so you have a rainbow colored ambience.
• Cut out large flowers from different colored paper and put them around the room.
• Get floral print cushion covers and tablemats.
• Ask all the guests to wear clothes from the sixties – bell-bottoms, cap sleeves, chunky belts and big hair. Large rose colored sunglasses or yellow sunglasses would fit the bill too.
• Hang beads in all the doorways and as streamers.
• Make signs of peace and hang all around.
• Play rock music from the 60s.

Old Is Gold Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Cupcakes with smiley faces.
• Pizzas and coke.
• Cut out sandwiches in flower shapes.
• Use a flower power tablecloth. Get paper plates with smiley faces or the flower power theme.
• Make small placards with the peace sign to use as food labels.

Old Is Gold Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• Twister.
• Get organized for a DIY tie die event. Give all the guests plain white sarongs or scarves and help them tie die their scarves. These can also double as the party favors.
• Get some poster colors and paint tattoos of flowers, smiley faces and the peace sign for all the guests. Great fun! Also since poster colors wash off with plain water there’s nothing to worry.
• If you are having a co-ed shower then have a 60s style dance competition.
• Put on some Elvis Presley and get everyone on the dance floor with balloons rubber banded to his or her feet. While dancing, the aim is to stomp out other people’s balloons. The dancer with the last balloon wins.
• Play an old themed trivia game with couples as teams. Do you know the name of Little Ricky’s babysitter on “I Love Lucy”? How about Latka’s wife on “Taxi”? You can include trivia from movies, music and even advertisement to make it really fun.

Old Is Gold Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Tie die sarongs or scarves.
• Daisy shaped plantable wildflower favors.
• Natural flower petal hand fans.
• Mini thank you flower pots.

Remember, old is gold! Keep it a celebration of the past and resist urges to make fun of the old days or the old timers.

Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

Pamper the Bride Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Take a nail file and stick a piece of paper on it so it dangles like a scroll. Put down all the party details and roll up the paper. Tie with a ribbon and send out to all the guests.
• Use lipstick pencils or eyeliner to write out the party details on the invitations.
• Attach the invite to pretty loofahs and send out to all the guests.

Pamper the Bride Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• Light aroma candles all around the room to give a spa effect.
• Use large bowls filled with water and add rose petals to the bowl. Not only does it look visually stunning but also the room will smell amazingly fresh.
• Hand out rose scented wet towels to each guest as she arrives.
• Put up chimes for soothing, tinkling music.

Pamper the Bride Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Detoxification is the name of the game. Serve sparkling water and fresh juices. Get recipes for drinks that include ingredients like lemon grass, ginger and fresh lime.
• Lots of fruits and salads.
• Herbal tea.
• Roasted and baked dishes are a good idea. Skip fried foods.
• And of course – chocolate. Sorry but if you are going to pamper the bride you cannot skip the chocolate! And a little bit of sin goes a long way.

Pamper the Bride Theme Bridal Shower Games:

Rather than games organize enough equipment so that all the women present can pamper themselves. You can even hire a manicurist or a masseuse to give massages to everyone. Ask the guests to carry their own brand of creams, lotions and face packs.

The idea is to create an atmosphere of a relaxed, luxury spa. In fact ask the guests to carry along their robes and flip-flops as well.

Mix up 3-4 different kind of home made face packs for the guests to try out. You could even mix up some potions to use as body scrubs, hand and face creams and foot creams. Put the contents into bowls and place the recipe in front of each bowl. Let the guests decide what their preference is.

For the bride, hire a beautician to give her the entire bridal package; a manicure, pedicure, massage, facial, bikini or Brazilian wax and everything else on offer. This could also be your gift to the bride for the bridal shower.

Note: If you don’t want to sponsor the manicurist / masseuse for all the guests it is acceptable. In such a case you can either give out flyers listing all the various services on offer and the charges. Another option is to introduce the beautician and let her state the services and costs herself once all the guests have arrived.

Pamper the Bride Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Scented luxury soap three orchid gift box.
• Perfect pansies luxury bath confetti.
• Scented bottle bath sea salts.
• Aroma oils.

Weddings can put a great deal of stress on the bride. Let her bridal shower be an event where she is pampered to no end and feels like a queen for the day.

Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

So, why not have a party and gather a bunch of friends and family who are willing to lend a helping hand? Make sure you clear the idea with the bridal couple before you organize anything. This is not a great theme for a surprise shower!

Pitch In Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Get miniature tools like a hammer or screwdriver and attach a little note asking guests for their help. Make sure you get RSVPs since a lot of guests may not be so willing to help and you definitely need to know how many people you can expect to show up.
• Get roof tiles or ceramic tiles and paint the invitations on them. You can even use old tiles lying around the house.

Pitch In Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• None required! Since the idea is to do up the house or complete a project decorations would only get in the way. You can put up a few balloons around the house to give it a festive look.
• One good idea would be to get t-shirts printed for all the guests that read – “Bridal Couple’s Construction Crew” and have them wear it. These could also be given to the guests as party favors.

Pitch In Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Take out is the best option since again the aim is to get as much accomplished on the house as possible. Call for pizzas and burgers.
• Stock up on the lemonade, colas and water. You may want to skip serving alcoholic drinks to avoid accidents.

Pitch In Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• A wet t-shirt contest – for the guys! This is guaranteed to evolve into a competition worthy of the Olympics. Also a great opportunity to click photographs. Hey, it is the bride’s turn to have fun after all.
• Divide the guests into 2 or 3 teams. Assign each team an assignment to be completed for the project on hand. The team who completes their assignment fastest wins!
• Prop up 3 ladders against the house. Divide the guests into 3 teams and have them play a ‘climb the ladder’ relay.

Pitch In Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Miniature toolboxes filled with candy.
• Swiss army knives.
• Custom printed personalized t-shirts.

A bridal shower can be both fun and functional. If everyone pitches in, the bride and groom can enjoy themselves and get a head start on a lot of the tasks that starting a new life can create.
Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

Rooms Around the House Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Make little paper houses. Depending on how good you are at craft you can chose to make 3D Origami models or simple paper houses. Write out the details of the party on a piece of paper and roll it up like a newspaper and stick to the front ‘porch’. If that’s too much for you just go the 2D way and put all the invitation details behind the house.
• Buy little chocolate houses and send along with simple invitations.

Rooms Around the House Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• you plan to use your entire house for the bridal shower to go with the theme, then just use some festive balloons and streamers in the specific rooms that will host the food / games / other activities.
• If you have just one room and need to adapt it to the theme, cut out large signs and designate a room to the various corners of the venue. So you can have one corner labeled as ‘kitchen’, another as ‘bedroom’, and another as ‘living room’ and so on. In each corner set up a small table and dress it up to match the designated room’s décor.
• In the ‘kitchen’ you can set up the food table. Do the gifts and sentimental speeches in the ‘living room’. Reserve the games for the ‘bedroom’.

Rooms Around the House Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Choose any one room and set up the menu based on that room. You can be serving ‘breakfast in bed’. So the menu has some bagels, donuts, croissants, coffee with a dash of brandy, coffee liquors, long island iced tea and fruits.
• If you want to a ‘candlelight dinner’ the menu will become more exotic. Serve up wine and champagne, strawberries and cream, caviar (if you can afford that!), prawns and whatever other favorites of the bride to be you can think of.
• You could also have a ‘living room picnic’ or an ‘informal kitchen meal’.

Rooms Around the House Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• Play the memory game for the bathroom. Have a tray filled with items from the bathroom cabinet. Show it to the guests for a minute. Cover the tray. The guest who can recollect the maximum number of items wins.
• Put 6 different food items in 6 different jars with no labels for the Kitchen game. The guest who guesses the various foods correctly wins.
• For the Bedroom game you can blindfold the bride and get her to wear different pieces of clothing while blindfolded. The idea is that all the guests get a piece of clothing like men’s underwear, a maternity gown, racy lingerie and the like. The bride to be does not get to see these. Once she is blindfolded, she has to figure out what each piece of clothing is and try it on. This game provides the best photo opportunities ever.

Rooms Around the House Theme Bridal Shower Favors:

• Scented bath salts in glass heart bottle for the ‘Bathroom’.
• Individually wrapped leaf votive candles with ribbon for the ‘Bedroom’.
• Maple leaf cork coaster set for the ‘Dining Room’.
• The perfect blend roses personalized coffee party favors for the ‘Living room’.

While a Rooms Around the House themed bridal shower may not involve an extreme home makeover, it does involve a bit of special preparation. Make sure you are ready to make the commitment before planning this type of wedding shower party.

Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

Lets Get Naughty Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Send out invitations that read, “Let’s get naughty at X’s bridal shower”. Wrap the note around a banana for the perfect mood setter. If you are worried about banana’s rotting before you can deliver the invitations, substitute with cucumbers.
• Buy cheap G-strings and write out the party details on the g-string with a black marker. Send as invites. Note: Writing space will be scarce so you’ll have to be thrifty with words as well.

Lets Get Naughty Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• Use condoms as balloons.
• Use lace for tablecloth and to drape on chairs.
• Create ‘naughty plants’ by placing upright bananas and cucumbers in small planters filled with dirt.
• Hang neck ties and silk ropes as streamers.

Lets Get Naughty Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Lollipops.
• Whipped cream on strawberry.
• Chocolate sauce on ice cream.
• Banana fritters.
• Finger foods.

Note: Don’t give out any cutlery. Let guests use their fingers to eat – a super naughty thing to do!

Lets Get Naughty Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• A male stripper would be perfect with the theme and great entertainment. Clear this with the bride beforehand unless you are absolutely sure she (and her guests) will be ok with it.
• A game of truth and dare would also work great. Just ask naughty questions and put forth naughty dares.
• Play the needle and thread game. Ask the bride to leave the room. Tell all the guests that all the comments the bride will make during the game represent her feelings on the First Night. Call the bride back into the room. Tell her the game is to thread the needle. You can hold the needle and give the thread to the bride. When the bride tries to thread the needle move it around a bit so she cannot. When the bride starts exclaiming, “stay still I can’t get it in” or “darn, missed again” the guests will be rolling on the floor laughing. Make sure you let the bride in on the joke after 5-7 minutes.

Lets Get Naughty Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Heart shaped long stemmed lollipops.
• Chocolate coated condoms.
• G-strings.
• Jokes or small games from an adult store.

The naughty theme isn’t for every bridal party or every bride. But for brides that are good sports it’s makes for a shower that everyone will enjoy and remember.
Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

Romance Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Pink hearts, red hearts and some more pink hearts! Cut out pink heart or get red heart shaped balloons and attach the invite to them.
• If you don’t mind spending a little extra, send each invite with a single long stemmed red rose.
• For a little humor with the romance, buy pink colored glasses and attach the invite to these. Let the invite read, “Join us for an evening of viewing the world through rose colored glasses. Celebrating the spirit of romance and love.”

Romance Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• The regular stuff goes without saying: red heart shaped balloons, pink hearts, red roses.
• To add a unique touch, light rose scented candles and place them all around the room.
• Using transparent fabric like Organza in gold and silver to drape chairs and tables gives a fairytale romance feeling to the party.
• You can also create a romantic ambience by adding some romantic music.

Romance Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Champagne and strawberries.
• Chocolate or cheese fondue.
• Aphrodisiacs like oysters, caviar and papaya. (This is mighty harsh on the pocket so watch your budget before you indulge!)
• Serve passion purple cocktails. Strawberry margaritas would also be perfect.

Romance Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• Put down a few words like love, thee, friend, passion, tender. Ask the guests to write a poem using all the given words. The best poem wins!
• Ask the guest to suggest an ultra romantic way to propose. The best proposal wins. If you are having a couple’s shower, ask the couples to share their own proposal experiences. The real life most romantic proposal wins.
• Give each guest a heart shaped paper and ask her to write down a piece of advice to keep the romance alive in a marriage. Tie all the hearts with a ribbon and put them in a keepsake box. Present to the bride as her bridal shower gift.
• If you are having a co-ed shower the balloon game works really well. Give each couple a heart shaped balloon and ask them to hold it between them – no hands allowed. They must use the rest of the body to keep the balloon up. Put on some music and get the couples to dance without dropping the balloon. The couple who keeps the balloon up longest, wins!

Romance Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Heart charm gourmet chocolate kit.
• Personalized heart shaped message in a bottle favor.
• Chrome heart love letter opener in gift box.
• Solid heart wine bottle stopper.

The romance themed wedding shower theme can be more about pleasing the guests than the bride herself. Often the bride and groom are already deeply experiencing romance. The romantic bridal shower can be a way for them to share that joy with friends and family.

Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

The techie geek theme is perfect for the bride to be who is electronically savvy. Not only does she know how to find her way around the Internet but actually thinks that Best Buy and Costco are great places to shop! It is also perfect for the bride to be who needs a quick initiation to plasmas, home theatres, iPods and notebooks.

Techie Geek Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Evites of course! Get online and send email invitations to the bridal shower. What else would you expect from a techie geek?
• SMS is another great option. The only hitch of course is that if you are planning to invite a whole bunch of guests, it could be tough on your thumb.
• To keep it to good old paper and pen and still be with the theme, get television or cell phone shaped paper cut outs and write out the invites on the back.

Techie Geek Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• Use colored wires instead of streamers and string them around the room.
• You can get a bunch of promotional banners and cut outs of televisions, cell phones and notebooks to hang from the ceiling.
• Use floppy disks and CD ROMs as coasters.
• Use a TV trolley to serve the food.

Techie Geek Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Fast food it is! That’s the only kind a tech junkie knows. Open up cans of beer and coke.
• Serve chips, burgers and wraps. Anything that can be eaten with one hand, will not leave an oily stain and doesn’t require more than 2 minutes to finish off.
• Forget about anything refined or French (except fries)!

Techie Geek Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• Set up a computer and keyboard and tear off one text page from any book. Let each guest have 1 minute to type out the page. The guest who types the maximum number of words in a minute wins!
• List out 20 odd technical abbreviations. ROM, RAM, DVD, LCD, HDTV and the like. Ask the guests to expand the abbreviations. The guest, who gets the most correct, wins.
• Get a camcorder or video recorder and set it up in one corner of the room. Make a home video for the bride to be with all her friends and family wishing her luck. Ask each guest to record a one-minute or more message for the bride to be. Convert into a DVD and give it to the bride to be as her bridal shower gift. She will cherish it forever.

Techie Geek Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Music CDs of the latest hit album.
• Floppy disk shaped chocolates.
• Subscription to a site where you can download ring tones and games for the cell phones.

Some brides just aren’t cut out for a traditional wedding shower party. What a wonderful surprise for the techie minded bride, to have a bridal shower that’s as ready for the 21st century as she is

Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.

Crystal Ball Theme Bridal Shower Invitations:

• Send out little fortune cookies and attach the party details on a piece of paper to the cookie.
• Take a Tarot card from a deck. Put it on the front side of the invite. On the backside write, “Come and see what the future holds for you and your friend.”
• Buy miniature wands and attach little notes with the details of the party on them. You can write, “See if your wishes will come true with a wave of the magic wand!”

Crystal Ball Theme Bridal Shower Decorations:

• Use dim lighting by placing dark colored sheer fabric on the lights all around the room.
• Light up a few incense sticks.
• Ask all the guests to wear caftans ala’ mysterious palm readers and fortunetellers.
• Hang stars and a moon from the ceiling for a galaxy effect.
• Place a crystal ball as the centerpiece.

Crystal Ball Theme Bridal Shower Food:

• Pretty much anything you want. Simply dress it up in a manner appropriate for the theme.
• You could use Tarot cards as coasters.
• Get stirrers with astrological signs crafted on the ends.
• Star shaped sandwiches and cookies.
• Get crystal ball bowls where you can lift the top half of the lid and use the bottom half for serving.

Crystal Ball Theme Bridal Shower Games:

• Hire a palm reader or fortuneteller to be part of the shower. This would really stir things. If you cannot afford one or don’t want to get things so serious, simply pretend play to be a fortuneteller yourself. Make up goofy fortunes for all the guests based on your knowledge of their lives.
• Get a ‘Know Your Fortune’ board game and play.
• To make things really mysterious, get an Ouija board and get all the guests to play.
• You could even try your hand at reading Tarot.

Crystal Ball Theme Bridal Shower Party Favors:

• Incense sticks wrapped in transparent paper with ribbon.
• Gold fortune cookie keepsake box
• Custom imprinted chocolate wedding coins
• Rose ball candle in gift box
• Fake set of nails

Copyright Andrea Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.