How to Host a Kitchen Bridal Shower

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"Bake on three fifty for twenty minutes and then, ah, this is beyond me. If you have a bride who loves to cook, is really good at it, a kitchen theme bridal shower might be just the thing for her. There are a couple of different ways that you can do this, you can do it in home, or you can go out to a local cooking school. Many cities have cooking schools that offer classes for groups even in a party environment. You would invite your shower guests and have them come down and cook a meal together, this provides opportunities for a tremendous amount of comedy because you'll have those like the bride who can probably whip up a gourmet meal in their sleep, and then you have those like me who can barely nuke a microwave supper to save their life. Put those two together, make a meal together, have a great time, have a lot of laughs, and then enjoy the food in the end, it's a lot of, lot of fun. Simple, no fuss. You can also do a kitchen theme shower in your home and the best way to do this is, as a potluck. Ask each of your guests to make a recipe that is special to them and again, you're going to have a variety of cooking skills, so make sure you let them know it doesn't have to be complicated, whatever it is that's special to them, that they're comfortable making. Distribute pretty recipe cards to your guests in the invitations and ask them to handwrite the recipe that they're going to bring and send it back to you in their RSVP. You'll collect all of those up, and then go out and get a beautiful recipe card box, maybe something that you can engrave personally for the bride, recipe of love, something like that, put all of the cards in it. That way the bride gets to enjoy all of these dishes that are very, very special to her close friends and family, and she goes away with the recipes for how to make each and every one of those dishes. You'll want to carry this kitchen or cooking theme all the way through the shower, so for decorations, a great inexpensive idea is to take brightly colored colanders and fill with fruit, lemons, apples, oranges, things like that, it can be very, very simple. If you're a little more crafty, take a beautiful ribbon and tie it around and pin it to each of those pieces of fruit. Regardless, it's very inexpensive, very fresh, nice alternative to flowers. You can also take vases in a variety of sizes and fill them up with brightly colored pasta of different shapes, that'll bring that kitchen and cooking theme throughout your home, as well. Keep the theme going for your favors, something as simple as a cheese grater with a brightly colored handle and a little card or note tied to it would make a fantastic favor for this type of shower. And, also your party games, try to keep those kitchen related as well. You can take an apron, put kitchen utensils all over it, fifteen or twenty of them, keep some of them really obscure, put it on the bride and have it, have her model that for your guests for about sixty seconds, give each of your guests a pad of paper, and a pen and then ask them to write down everything they saw on that apron after the bride has left the room. Whoever gets the most wins a cooking, or kitchen related gift. Have a great time with this, it's a lot of fun. Bon Appetite!"