All tagged bridal shower
The theme for my cousin’s bridal shower was “miss to mrs.” Her maid of honor has her own floral shop, and she did the flowers for Ashley’s wedding as well as the ones for her shower. One thing Ashley wanted was a bouquet bar. So her maid of honor made that happen!
At my cousin’s bridal shower, we did a time capsule as her “guestbook”. The theme for the shower was miss to mrs., so we kept it simple. Her maid of honor brought a large jar to store them in as well as made a sign. Then I made the actual cards for everyone to sign. I included a copy below without a logo if you want to use it yourself. On their first wedding anniversary, they will look at all of them!
Let’s talk all about the decor we used at my cousin’s bridal shower back in September. The theme was miss to mrs, and the colors were sage green, dusty rose, gold, and cream. Ashley’s (my cousin) maid of honor is a florist. Well she wasn’t technically one at that time, but she did just open up her own shop local to us. So she did all of the floral arrangements. We kept the decor simple yet chic.
One of the things on my cousin’s dream bridal shower board was a coffee bar. So when I helped host her shower back in September, I knew this was something I could easily do. We already have our own coffee bar, so I just made it more functional for a shower, and I included iced coffee since that is the bride’s favorite!
For my cousin’s bridal shower, she wanted the food to be a “chip” and dip style charcuterie set up. She gave us a list of her favorites dips and dippers to go along with it. So most of this was not an original idea by myself. Her and her maid of honor did a good job coming up with different food.
For my cousin’s bridal shower, the theme itself was miss to mrs. In addition we were doing a chip and did charcuterie style food setup. With that, they wanted the food to all be labeled. And I was in charge of making said labels. I wanted to do something using chalkboards because I thought that would be nice. I did some searching at Hobby Lobby and Michael’s as well as online with Amazon.
Last weekend, I helped host a bridal shower for my cousin, Ashley. She is getting married in November, and I love hosting a good event! Her maid of honor and mom help with all the ideas, but I wanted to share how adorable everything turned out. I plan to post more details later about different parts of the shower! But the general theme was “miss to mrs”.
One of the items I was in charge of for my cousin's couples shower in Memphis was the guestbook. I contemplated many different options. My original thought was to try and do some sort of guestbook that tied directly to the theme of the shower...Memphis, BBQ, Elvis, etc. My best friend had a cute idea of getting everyone to sign an Elvis record. My biggest concerns were a) how would they display it; b) how expensive it would potentially be; c) how easy would this be to do. I decided in the end to go a safer route. I saw various shadow box ideas, but decided to just come up with a version of my own.
One other "craft" I was in charge of for my cousin's couples shower in Memphis was the invitations. My mother-in-law knows I love doing things like this, so it made sense. At the time, our theme was Hometown Memphis. Both the bride and groom are from Memphis but currently live in Ft. Lauderdale. Since the shower was being held in Memphis, it made sense to make the them Memphis based.
I have discussed making napkin rings numbers times [baby shower and baptism], but I liked to share different napkins rings that I do for various events. I was in charges of the napkins for the couples shower I helped host. I wanted to do something cute that tied into the theme very well. Check out what I did below!
A few weekends ago, I helped host a shower with some of Brad's family for one of his cousins who is getting married later this summer. They live in South Florida, but both his cousin and his fiancé are from Memphis. My mother in law came up with a "hometown" theme. Memphis is know for their BBQ, so that was a must. Then we decided to incorporate both Elvis and the Memphis skyline. The shower was a team effort. Below is the final product of that effort. I am going to do a few posts later about the crafts I did specifically though.
About a year and a half ago, I did a blog post with a shower hostess gift idea. This was for one of my bridal showers. Below are the gifts I gave my hostesses of my baby showers. It isn't baby specific so these gifts can be given to a hostess of any shower really.
My best friend and Matron of Honor hosted my lingerie shower. It was a lots of fun, and she had great food and decorations. We teamed up when deciding the decor and she was nice enough to let me even pick out the yummy food!
So while shopping for our cousin's wedding, I found the cutest little mini-utensils for baking. I loved them so much, I decided to make a small gift basket for baking for her shower. The 'basket' is a stainless steel mixing bowl. We purchased one of each utensil in different colors of course. Then we topped it off with measuring cups! Super cute and easy wedding gift!
For one of my bridal showers, I made all of the hostesses a cute gift basket. It was a play on the 'shower' theme. See below for the items I used and the meaning behind each.
I have four guestbook ideas that were used during my wedding showers and wedding that I want to share with you. All four were unique to the event, but I hope they can inspire you when deciding a guestbook for a future event you may be hosting.
