DIY Fall Bridal Shower

Fall offers beautiful decorating themes for a bridal shower

Planning and hosting a bridal shower is typically the responsiblity of the bridesmaids, especially the maid- or matron-of-honor. While the bridal shower is almost always less formal than the wedding itself, the bride's attendants may wish to incorporate a theme. One of the most basic themes to plan a shower around is working with the calendar and basing the decorating colors, games and favors around the time of year, such as a fall-themed shower in autumn.

Things You'll Need

• Dining tables to accommodate each guest
• 3 card tables
• Centerpiece bowls, clear, 1 per table
• Apples, 1 dozen per table
• Leaves in fall colors, either real or silk
• Tablecloths to fit food and cake table, in fall colors
• Floral arrangement incorporating fall leaves, mums and sunflowers
• Glass punch bowl and glasses
• Warmed apple cider
• Cinnamon sticks
• Invitations, either a fall theme or in fall colors
• Permanent marker, 1 per guest
• Tiny pumpkins, 1 per guest
• Crystal or porcelain Tableware
• Hearty stew
• Rustic bread
• Spinach salad with pears, walnuts and gorgonzola cheese
• Apple pie
• Carmel apples, one per guest

Instructions

1. Invite guests, using a fall-themed invitation. Invitations can be sent online or on traditional fall-themed paper.

2. Set up a food table by spreading the tablecloth on it, followed by the spinach salad, stew, rustic bread, eating ware and centerpiece. Place the punchbowl with apple cider and cinnamon sticks at the end of the table.

3. Arrange dining tables in a desirable schematic, either as one long table at which everyone can join together or at smaller tables arranged nearby to encourage visiting and comraderie.

4. Place apple bowl centerpieces at the center of each dining table.

5. Place a card table at the entrance, with desired theme decorations and the small pumpkins with permanent markers. Ask each guest to write a wedding blessing or marriage advice to the bride on the pumpkin for her to keep.

6. Place a card table at the party location with desired theme decorations for guests to place gifts for the bride.

7. Place a card table at the exit across from the table with small pumpkins and line up carmel apples on the table as a favor for guests to take when they leave.

Tips & Warnings

• Further embellish the fall theme by adding streamers, balloons and signs about "FALLing in Love" at the party location. Consider hosting the shower outdoors where the fall colors can make decorating unnecessary.

References

• Bridal Shower Ideas for You
• The Knot: Fall Weddings
• Thoughtfully Simple: Fall Bridal Shower