A bridal shower is a party that may or may not be organized before a wedding. Usually, this tradition of planning a bridal shower is encountered mostly in the United States of America and in the Western Europe, being an awkward tradition for Asians or Africans.
How To Plan A Bridal Shower (Source: marthastewartweddings.com)
The obvious reason for throwing a bridal shower is to receive pieces of advice and also presents from your girls. Also, a bridal shower is the perfect occasion to spend some time with your close family and friends in a relaxed atmosphere, speaking about lovely things, that are not supposed to stress the bride, like for example about the honeymoon location, the lingerie that the bride will wear on the first night with her husband, about the gifts she receives at that bridal shower and many others. Discussions related to the wedding itself should be avoided, because most of them contain a high degree of stress, and a bridal shower is about relaxation and enjoyment, not about stress and worries.
How To Plan A Bridal Shower (Source: marthastewartweddings.com)
A bridal shower may be hosted by the bride herself or by her maid of honor and bridesmaids. It should take place within 2 months before the wedding up to 2 weeks before the wedding day. The first step in planning a bridal shower is to write and send the bridal shower invitations. Do not invite people that were not invited to the wedding as well. Bridal shower invitations are offered only to ladies and are not sent together with the wedding invitations, but several months after the wedding invitations were sent. A bridal shower can take place during daytime and in bride’s house, so it is not necessary to book a restaurant or a coffee shop, just to spend some pleasant time with your girls.
After sending the invitations, the bride should meet with her girls at her house and should offer them a register for gifts, where they will write what they plan to buy for her. The bride can tell them what are her desires, only that the guests will be those who will decide upon who will buy what.
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