Bridal Showers? Do you usually get/give party favors for the guests? If so, what?

Question

And when a guest wins a game, do they win a prize for themselves or a prize for the bride? Having on this Saturday and I feel completely ill prepared!!!

Answer 1

it is nice to have like candles for a winner of a game. use different scents this way the guests have fun sharing with each other. just something small as door prizes though nothing extravagant!

Answer 2

You can do it either way.  I prefer to give prizes.  I usually give lotion or candles at bridal showers for winners of games.  Have fun!!!

Answer 3

At the best shower I have gone to, the host gave each guest a little hand-made booklet (papers stapled together on the left edge).  The first few pages were information about the couple (how they first met, the proposal, etc) and wedding traditions.  The rest were handouts to be used as part of the shower games.  They were practical the day of (no passing out handouts), and it was a great memento to take home after the party was over.

There were also a few fun gag prizes for guests for winning the games as well.

Answer 4

you give party favors if they win. you can use household items. depends on how much you want to spend. i went to the dollar store and purchase kitchen utensils and wrapped them up in a set and used that for about 4 presents (prizes) picture frames with a cute computer printout thanking them for coming to the shower, also wrapped (with wrapping paper from the dollar store) ceramic items from the dollar store, the list could go on and on!!  think of it this way, you give items that would have to do with getting married and making a "home".  good luck!!!!!;)

Answer 5

At Bridal showers you do typically give gifts. If you're on a budged buy pampering gifts...smelly goods...(bubble bath, bath salts, lotions, manicure kits, face masks, scrubs). OR....Candles! You can find little bottles at department stores or like bath and body works.

Put them in cute bags tied with ribbon or stuffed with tissue.

Play games like who knows the bride and groom (survey) Clothes pin game...can't say bride or groom's names. Or put a trinket under chairs and the person who's seated where the trinket is gets the prize.  Each guest gets a chance to win a "better" favor. Bigger sizes of the mini gifts.

You can also give gift certificates to places women would enjoy. They can even be low denominations.

The guest at the shower receive gifts for attending. They're probably giving gifts anyhow...So there's no reason to win gifts for the bride. If you think there should be additional gifts for the bride...Find a money tree place a dollar in it and let the ladies get busy puttin' money up there!

Don't worry...you'll do fine!

Answer 6

yes whoever is throwing the shower is supposed to get favors for the guests. for mine we had candles.

http://www.weddingstyle.ca/Butterfly%20C...

and if you play games, you should get prizes (last shower i went to the prizes were picture frames and bottles of lotion from bath and body works). the prize is for the guest themselves, not the bride.

Answer 7

Usually the guests win the prize and get to keep it.  Sometimes there are party favors, other times not.  That's up to you but personally I would skip them.

Game prizes can be anything.  My cousin had an aunt who worked for Mary Kay so she gave away a ton of MK products.  Another shower was themed around french movies (they were honeymooning in Paris) so the prizes were candy/popcorn and some gift certificates to Blockbuster.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I didn't have party favors, but we had two games and they got prizes.  I bought them all at Partyland.  We did the toilet paper dress game and the winners got a small cutting board with a magnetic notepad and a really nice pen.  Then we did who knows the bride game where we asked 5 questions and whoever got the most right won, the gift was a candle holder that looked like a lantern and had butterflies on it and then a nice smelling candle.  All liked them.

Answer 10

I would forget having games, have cake,nuts and mints.

that should do it.Have fun

Answer 11

Just had my bridal shower on the weekend.  I made strawberry jam several weeks ago and that's what I gave to my guests.  I've been to showers with no gifts and then some with gifts like martini glasses, or a beautiful dish.  it doesn't have to be expensive.  just a token of appreciation

Answer 12

The best bridal showers that I have been to have not had games to play for the guests, but have had games for the bride to be to play.  (ex:  someone asks the groom a list of questions before the shower, and the bride try's to determine how the groom answered each question during the shower).  Have received the typical gifts, but 2 that I loved (both also becoming a popular one) are flower seeds in a bag with a new agey kind of quote handwritten and attached to the bag of seeds.  The other one was a poem (another handwritten one) attached to a star fish (because the wedding was on the beach).  Good luck!  Whatever you choose will be great.

Answer 13

I never got a favor at a shower, just won prizes with the games. And yes the winner keeps the prize. If you want to have favors, fine, but no one would really expect it.

My friend gave out as prizes little scented candles in glass from the Dollar Store, and handmade bracelets made from leftover beads from her jewelry projects.

Did you buy an umbrella and decorate it? It is an old tradition, the gaudier the better. Attach the decorations in a temporary way, so the bride has the option of keeping it for a keepsake, or taking all the stuff off, and using the umbrella.

A shower is easy. Do a meet and greet, serve the food, play the games, hand out the prizes, serve the dessert[unless the food was the dessert] have the bride unwrap the presents, bribe someone to write them down for her, say good bye to everyone, help the bride get all her loot to the car, and wave bye bye to her.

another tradition is to make a bouquet out of the bows and ribbons  from the presents, just poke holes in a paper plate, and tie the bows on it in a decorative way, and tie one in a way so the bride has a handle to carry it.

Chill, have fun, smile a lot, oooo and ahhhh over everybody and everything, you will be fine.

Answer 14

Bridal showers are confusing! : )

The first three sites are on bridal shower etiquette to help you sort things out.

I've never given favors out to guests at a bridal shower, and I can't remember receiving any, but I did find them on the web, so some hostesses do give them out.  I've listed a couple of sites (the last 2) that offer ideas on easy, make-it-yourself favors.  

But, since you are so close to party time, if you want to give them out, is to purchase votive candles in one of the bridal party colors (Michael's, Target, wherever you can get them inexpensively,) tie thin ribbons in white or ivory (whichever the bride is wearing,) around them, and if so inclined wrap them in small cellophane bags.  

Secondly, the shower is to give the couple things they will need to begin their new home: dishes, towels, cookware, etc.  Unless it's a shower just for the bride,  where she get nighties, underwear, perfume, etc.

So, since the bride is receiving gifts, when a guest wins a prize she gets to keep it!

relax, have fun, and God bless!

Answer 15

What about a photo CD case?

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