How to Buy a Gift for a Wedding Shower
Skip the lingerie (yawn) and bubble bath. Let the bride know you care with a thoughtful - and fun - gift.
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Things You'll Need
- Scrapbooks
- Waltz: You Can Dance Videos
- Bridal Wreath Plants In Containers
Instructions
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Make up your own theme if there isn't one planned. Check out ideas at shower Web sites. For example, if the honeymooners are headed to a tropical destination, you might give them a beach bag stuffed with matching beach towels, paperback books, tanning lotion, an exfoliating mitten and a beach cover-up.
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Prepare them for the reception with a dance video and CDs.
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Help the couple to keep track of time with a wedding countdown clock.
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Make a wedding scrapbook. Include the engagement announcement and have everyone write memories of the couple on cards that can be inserted in the book. Include something that relates to where they met - for example, frame a page in their school colors if they met at school. Get a napkin or menu from the restaurant where he proposed. Leave a blank page for wedding and honeymoon photos.
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Present the bride with a white wreath that she can fasten her dried bouquet to after the big day.
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Help relieve the stress of planning a wedding. Treat the couple to dinner and a movie or play, a sporting event, or massages and manicures.
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Tips & Warnings
Stick to the theme if the shower planner had the foresight to choose one.
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Comments
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Nov 22, 2005
Get the name & address of each shower guest from the hostess. Buy (or make) nice notecards. Stamp & address the envelopes. At the shower, take notes (what & who) as gifts are opened. The thank-you notes will be half-done & the bride will appreciate it! -
Nov 22, 2005
I had my best friend's wedding invitation framed and matted. In the same frame, below the wedding invitation, I had a silver plaque mounted, upon which was engraved the couple's wedding announcement. It was a big hit.
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Nov 22, 2005
Go to the shower with your camera and several rolls of film and take lots of pictures--don't be shy. After the film is developed, put the photos in a small photo album and present it to the bride.
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Nov 22, 2005
I had my best friend's wedding invitation framed and matted. In the same frame, below the wedding invitation, I had a silver plaque mounted, upon which was engraved the couple's wedding announcement. It was a big hit.
