What did you do for your bridal shower? Did you have one, or multiple for different reasons?

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What did you do for your bridal shower? Did you have one, or multiple for different reasons?

Answer 1

One. It was small and lovely. Back in my hometown.

My friends here (where I live) threw me an afternoon tea, no gifts, just a surprise get-together to celebrate my upcoming marriage. It was so thoughtful.  

Answer 2

I had 3. One from my family, one from friends of his family, and one with my friends hosted by my maid of honor.

My sister-in-law had 1 her family, 1 his family, 1 couples (with friends of each), and 1 thrown by the bridesmaids instead of a bachelorette party

Answer 3

Well, I'm about to be a bridesmaid for my twenty year old cousin, and I have been helping the maid of honor plan her bridal shower. We are basically going to eat and talk. But we are playing some games. We are going to split up in teams and make wedding dresses out of toilet paper. We are also doing the clothespin game where you wear the clothespin and if you say the groom's name [you can also change it to "wedding"] and someone hears you, they can take it away. Whoever has the most at the end wins.

Answer 4

I had two - simply because of circumstance and distance. Both were lovely, and very different!

I was teaching in a small town over four hours away from my home city, where we were going to be married and live. There, the female staff of the school, friends from the town, and the girls from my grades 2 and 3 class were hostesses! It was really wonderful - my mom and one of my sisters travelled down for it as well.

Then I had one in my home city, at our parish hall. That was for family, church friends, friends from the city, bridesmaids, etc.  

Answer 5

for women invite some once who can do strip.

for men we do the same thing too.lots fun

the best of all live s*x

Answer 6

My wedding's still a year off, but I'm kind of hoping for no bridal showers (they're so monotonous, with those silly games and that stupid bouquet I'm supposed to make out of all the gift bows, and I'd feel so sorry for everyone having to watch me opening gift after gift and going, "Ooh, Ahh," over cookware), but then again, if my friends are nice enough to throw me one, I'll definitely be quite grateful and attend with a smile on my face, even though NOTHING's more boring than a bridal shower!!  Honestly, I'd prefer for my friends to skip the whole shower thing and just go somewhere fun like an amusement park or a casino with me.  They could save the money they would have spent buying me lame-o kitchen appliances and spend it on their own fun during our big day out.

Answer 7

I've never had a bridal shower. I've always found the idea tacky - it's basically asking for gifts.

Answer 8

Most people just have one big one and invite everyone to a central location, it makes it easier  and cheaper on whoever is throwing it for you.

Answer 9

I had two: one thrown for me by my mother-in-law because she lives in another state, so I could visit with the women I had gotten to know on that side of the family (It was at a person's house and it was a kitchen luncheon), and the other was thrown by my maid-of-honor and bridesmaids and it was in my hometown for my friends/my mom's friends. My hometown shower was held at my favorite mexican restaurant.  

Answer 10

We had one..BIG One. LOL...it was a typical Italian Shower, everybody kept telling my mother it looked like the wedding already! It was great though, very beautiful and on the water. Sit down dinner, cookie table, etc. We had teddy bear centerpieces that were in a emerald green dress (The color of my bridesmaids dresses) :) We played a bingo game, and a guessing game. A great time was had by all. :)

Answer 11

I had two.  I had given my sister (my MOH) a list of the people I had wanted there - severely truncated the wedding list and made my shower list full of the people I knew, and only one or two my husband said we "had" to invite.  Apparently, my MIL did not like my list and took it upon herself to throw her own shower.  Walked into that one to her saying, "For all of you who don't know her, this is the bride, ___.  And her groom, my son___"  Yup, that was a slap in the face.  Believe it or not, I didn't enjoy that shower AT ALL.  My husband kept saying, "But look at all the stuff we got..."  Seriously?  I'd rather celebrate with people I know than a group of strangers who felt they HAD to get me a gift.

So, my shower was great. I loved it.  My mother in laws shower (as it will forever be known) was a show-boat affair that nobody enjoyed.  (The people who I do know and love on his side were put in the back of the room so that I would have a chance to "meet" all of the new people.)

Answer 12

I'm not married so I obviously haven't had one yet but my mother remarried earlier this summer and she did have one.  It was held at a building next door.  All her sisters and the women on our road came over.  We ate a bunch of food.  We even played a few games.  One game, was underneath one cup was a red stripe (just mark it on with a red marker) and whoever had that cup wins a prize.  I'm sorry but I can't exactly remember how the other games were played. Other then that, we opened presents.  Hope it helped :-)  

Answer 13

My Bridal shower was this past Sunday.. My Mom and MIL hosted it for me. It was at a Banquet Hall. It was very nice. We played games for prizes, my maid of honor had party favors for each guest.  

Answer 14

my cousin had three; one thrown by her side of the family, one from her fiancees and one from her friends.

Answer 15

My sisters and women friends gave me a blessing way ceremony. I took this passage from wikipedia:

A Blessing Way can also indicate a variation on the standard baby shower in which a gathering is held before the birth of a baby to provide support and encouragement to the expectant mother[citation needed]. This form of Blessing Way shares no cultural connection to the Navajo tradition, and shares only the name.

One form that a Blessing Way can take is common in coastal northern California is as a non-consumerist adaptation of the more traditional baby shower in which close friends and family, sometimes all women, and sometimes both men and women, gather to show support, coordinate postnatal meal plans, sing, and bless the mother. Often a ball of yarn is passed around the circle with each person present wrapping the yarn around a wrist (or ankle if having yarn around their wrist would interfere in their lives, i.e. if they work as a nurse) to symbolize being tied together as a community in support of the mother. When the circle is disbanded the yarn is broken and participants tie the yarn onto themselves as a bracelet or anklet, and it is worn until after the baby is born.

It was very special and reassuring to me. I wasn't interested in having a shower- my child was the first grandbaby on both sides of the family and we have always had far more stuff than we can accommodate. My mom did arrange a shower at our church, which was ok.

Congrats!

Answer 16

i had 2 showers - a regualr bridal shower (registered stuff from Macys etc)....I invited everyone....so I had my friends, my family, his family, my co workers.....and we had it at this really cute restaraunt on the beach....had about 45 people......

then i had a 2nd one with just my close girlfriends...it was a lingerie shower......the girls bought me cute s**y stuff....there was about 12 girls and it was at my sisters house....very casual.