How to Host a Theme Wedding Shower

Choosing a theme for a wedding shower adds an interesting twist to an old tradition. Use your imagination to come up with something fun, while keeping in mind the needs and desires of the bride and groom.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Wedding Shower Invitations
• Bridal Registries
• Guest Lists
• Candles
• Fresh-cut Flowers
• Champagne
• Sparkling Cider
• Champagne Glasses
• Champagne Buckets
• Postage Stamps

1. Choose a theme before the invitations go out. That way, guests can buy gifts that fit the theme.
2. Consider a kitchen or bathroom shower if the couple is especially in need of items for these rooms.
3. Try something less traditional that fits the couple's interests. They might like a fitness shower, with gifts that promote fitness or healthy eating.
4. Stock their bar with glassware, liquor or bar tools by throwing a bar shower.
5. Consider an "Around-the-Clock" shower, with each guest assigned a time of day and asked to bring a gift that is appropriate for that time. With an "Around-the-World" shower, each guest is assigned a certain country and brings a gift associated with that place.
6. Plan your decorations, games and food around the theme of the shower. If you are having a fitness shower, serve healthy foods and juice from a juice bar. If you have settled on an Around-the-World shower, use foreign flags and serve various kinds of ethnic food.
7. Search the Web with the keywords "wedding shower" and "themes" for more ideas.

Tips & Warnings

• Before throwing a theme shower, be sure that the bride and groom need the kinds of gifts that are associated with the theme. If a couple needs just about everything, a traditional shower may be the best bet.
• Try not to make the theme so obscure that guests will have trouble choosing gifts.
• Avoid really risqué themes unless everyone at the shower knows everyone else and you are sure that no one will be offended.