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Wedding Shower Invitations TipsWedding Shower ThemesYou can have a wedding shower any time of the day: Brunch - around 11 am, Coffee in the morning, Luncheon - from 12 - 2:30, Tea - morning or afternoon, Cocktail Party at 6:00 pm or Sunday noon, or a Dessert Shower at 7:30 pm. Different themes are listed below: Pantry Shower: guests should bring a gift of food to stock the bride and groom’s pantry They’ve bought their home Please join us for a Lingerie Shower: guests should only be women and the bride’s size and color preference should be noted on the invitation Something sexy, a trip to the spa - Lingerie Shower or Flannel pajamas are Madeline’s night-time attire. Lingerie Shower and Brunch Round-the-clock-shower: a different time is written on each invitation and the guest should bring a gift appropriate to their designated time (6 pm = cocktail glass) hurry, hurry....we’re late, we’re late Jessie and Sam Please join us for cocktails and dinner Round the Clock Shower Before Helen and Clay Please join us for an Gardening Shower: guest should bring any type of gardening tool, plants or gift certificates to a gardening center They have everything they need for inside their new home, Recipe Shower: guests bring a recipe and a gift to help make the recipe Their love for each other Please join us for a Please bring a few of your favorite recipes and a gadget to help them when making Paper Shower: guests bring any paper or plastic items - paper flowers, table mats, monogrammed napkins or table cloths, books, or magazines Please join us for a Stock-the-Bar Shower: generally a couples shower, guests bring bottles of liquor, wine, mixers, cocktail shakers, stirrers, monogrammed cocktail napkins, barware or any other bar serving pieces Heidi and Kurt’s Wedding Grill Shower: also a couples shower, guests bring anything related to cooking out They like to grill, It’s a Grilling Party for Outdoor Shower: also for couples, guests bring camping equipment and gadgets They like to camp, It’s an Outdoor Shower Home Improvement or Handy-man (or Handy-person) Shower: guests bring any tools, gadgets, cleaning supplies or gift certificates to a home improvement store It’s a Home Improvement Shower! Wedding registry informationYou can include wedding registry information on the wedding shower invitation or on an smaller enclosure card inside the invitation envelope. It would be printed in much smaller letters on the bottom center of the invitation or bottom right hand corner. However, it is not proper to include registry information with the wedding invitation itself. It would be improper to solicit a gift at that point in time - only before, at the shower that is designated for this purpose. Group gift for wedding showerGroup gifts at a shower are nice. They allow you to puchase a much larger, more expensive gift from the bride and groom’s registry. However, we recommend you verbally ask some of your closer friends or relatives if they want to participate in a group gift, rather than asking all the guests to bring money to the shower for a group gift on the shower invitation. Some problems you can encounter when you ask for money for a group gift on the invitation: 1.) Some people like to buy their own gifts or have an heirloom gift they would like to give and may not want to participate. 2.) If you require $40 from each guest to cover the cost of the gift - know that a few guests may not be able to participate to the full amount. They may want to contribute less - leaving a balance you will have to cover. Futhermore, you will need to list all participants equally on the card - even though some guests gave more money than others, since they all contributed. 3.) Some guests may offer to participate and then not attend the shower - leaving you to cover the balance. 4.) If everyone decides to participate in the group gift except for a couple of guests, it may be embarrassing for them when the gift is being opened and the gift givers are recognized. 5.) The guests may feel "bullied" into participating in a group gift it is is written on the invitation rather than through a phone call. Wedding Shower GuestsOnly people you are inviting to the wedding should be invited to the wedding shower. If you cannot accommodate someone at your wedding, they should not be expected to give you a gift by inviting them to your wedding shower. You will want to make sure you include the mother of both the bride and the groom (if they live close enough to attend easily). If the bride is being given many showers by different groups of people you need not invite the same people to each shower. Members of both families, your attendants, close friends, relatives, family friends, co-workers or club members may each be invited to the appropriate shower. Wedding shower hostsFriends, aunts, cousins, members of the bridal party, or co-workers are all eligible to host the wedding shower. Immediate family members of the bride or groom should not host the wedding shower. This includes the mothers, grandmothers and sisters. Exceptions to this rule are when the bride comes from a foreign country and knows no one here except her groom and his family - then they may plan the shower. Traditionally it is not proper for the immediate family to "solicit" gifts for their children by hosting the shower for them. |
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