A garden theme bridal shower is perfect for the bride with a green thumb. Even if the bride to be is not an especially skillful gardener, who doesn’t love nature’s best? Flowers, green plants, beautiful pots, flirty butterflies, chirping birds and a beautiful summer afternoon or a crisp winter’s day.

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 groom will probably thank you for this one and every guy in town would even be willing to sell football tickets for an entry to this bridal shower! A roomful of girls with naughty thoughts on their mind is guaranteed to be a blast. Think of it as a bachelorette party without going out! Make sure the bride is sporting enough to play along and will not be offended before you plan this theme shower.

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.

This theme is perfect for an older couple. It works well as a bridal shower and a co-ed shower. Just remember that the idea is to celebrate things the way they were in the 60s and 70s. Practical jokes or digs at the couple’s age is a complete no-no.

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.

If the bridal couple is a travel buff then this is the perfect theme bridal shower for them.

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.