In
2012, I was asked to help with my nieces bridal shower. She didn’t have a theme but really loved the
colors yellow, pink and orange. At first I found it hard really hard to come up with ideas without a theme but I worked my magic and was
able to create a few really good ideas that made her shower special.
Guest Book:
Instead of doing the same old guest book, we came up with
the idea of leaving envelopes and having each guest fill it out so my niece
wouldn’t have to locate everyone’s address for the thank you cards. I used a foam poster board and covered it
with flowered gift wrap paper I found at the dollar store. I then decorated it with their engagement
picture and random pictures from their childhoods. We also left the album filled with her
engagement pictures for everyone to look at.
Advice Board:
I used another foam board with yellow gift wrap paper for
the advice board. I strung a string from
to push pins and hung tiny clips with different color paper so the guests could
fill out advice to the bride that should could put in her scrapbook.
Games:
For the games we played several but the best was when each
table picked a “Bride” and made a wedding dress for them using only toilet
paper. It was so much fun and we had a
lot of creative “dresses”.
Favors:
Creating party favors is my favorite thing to do. I LOVE the idea of coming up with something
and creating it from scratch rather than paying the huge price tag on party
stuff. Plus, if you do it yourself then
you can put that special added touch that makes it stand out at any party. I went with the yellow theme for the favors because of its
warm and bright color. When I think of
yellow the first thing that pops in my mind is honey. I really wanted to create jars of honey but
after pricing the jars and the honey, it did not fit into my budget. My next idea was to use sticks of honey and the Meant to Bee Honey sticks was created.
I ordered 100 honey sticks from amazon, along with the cute
yellow ribbon with the bees on it. I created the tag and used glue dots to put
the two sticks together. I then tied the
ribbon around the sticks and through the tag.
I also made He Popped The Question and She Said Yes Bags
(pink bags in the background) and added a microwave bag of popcorn and white
paper. I also made smores on a stick and used orange chocolate with
chocolate hearts.
Last was my oreo truffles.
Everyone LOVES these and they are so easy to make for any party. I always have tiny favor boxes on hand that I
pick up at Wal-mart (100 to a box) for favors.
I picked up yellow flowers from the dollar store and pulled them off the
stems. I used a hot glue gun and
attached to the top of the boxes. I then
used yellow ribbon that I also got at the dollar store to wrap around the box
and added a tag made with card stock. I
used a cupcake liner and then added a truffle to each box.
For my first bridal shower, it was a huge success. The food was awesome but created by someone
else, which is why I don’t have that on this blog.
