This theme works best for a co-ed bridal shower. If the bridal couple are planning to move into their own home there will definitely be some projects for which they could use some help. Doing the roof, setting up the backyard, finishing up the pool, tiling the bathroom, painting the house or just moving into their new home.

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.

If you know for sure that the bride and groom are planning to set up their own house after the wedding or are already doing it, then this is a great theme for the bridal shower. It adapts well to a co-ed shower as well. You can have this bridal shower in your home and use the entire house for different parts of the shower. Of course, it does mean you’re going to have to clean up the whole house!

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.