How to Make Your Own Bridal Shower Baskets

Better Than Buying Pre-Made...Personalize Your Own

Making your own bridal shower baskets to hand out to guests as party favors or game prizes is not difficult at all. Get your wedding party together for a girl's night to help put them all together, open a few bottles of wine and you will have them done in no time.

Things You'll Need

• Goodies (suggestions in the article)
• Baskets (one per guest for favors and one per game prize)
• Ribbon, bows and other embellishments that reflect your celebration
• Colored plastic wrap and name tags (optional)

Instructions

1. Buy your goodies for the party favors. Armed with the guest list, try to find at least one item that matches the personality of each guest. From there you can find fun items that most women will love like candles, bath and body items (such as lotions and bath salts), stationary sets and other girlie favorites. When figuring out how to make your own bridal shower baskets, understand that most of these items can be purchased at dollar stores, which will help you save money.

2. Buy your items for the game prizes. These purchases should be tailored to the game that you are playing or at least contain more luxurious items than the party favor goodies. You can make complete bath and body sets that contain everything that is needed to have a long bubble bath or wine baskets that contain a few glasses, decorator stoppers and gourmet cheese along with the bottle.

3. Purchase all of your other supplies. When deciding how to make your own bridal shower baskets, know that any craft store will have baskets available in a variety of different sizes, shapes and styles. While you are there, pick up ribbon in the wedding party colors, bows and any other embellishments that you would like to add to personalize them to your celebration. For example, small initial or wedding charms add sparkle and can be a great keepsake for your guests.

4. Put the baskets together. Once you have all of your items purchased, create the baskets. Do the party favor baskets first, playing around with fitting all of the items in the baskets so that they look appealing. When figuring out how to make your own bridal shower baskets, do not worry about having any extra items that you cannot seem to squeeze into the baskets. Simply set them aside. After you have all of the party favors put together, you can use the left-over items to add more to the game prize baskets.

5. Trim the baskets. After all of the items are in place, add the ribbons, bows and charms. If you want them to be more like presents, wrap them in colored plastic wrap, tie them shut with some ribbon and add name cards. This will help hide some of the contents so your guests are surprised by the favors and prizes. However you choose to decorate and fill your bridal shower baskets, you are sure to delight all your guests with such a personal gift.

References

• More Bridal Shower Ideas