• Retro Housewife Bridal Shower Invitations

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A bridal shower is an event full of girlish fun and celebration, so what better way to put on a party with a true feminine feel than with a 1950’s Housewife themed bridal shower! Here, you mix fun pastel colors with comfort foods and sweet treats fit for a happy bride-to-be.

Retro Housewife Bridal Shower Invites

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Retro Housewife Bridal Shower Decors

First, you have to start with the whimsical and nostalgic decorations, and don’t forget that this themed shower should be filled with plenty of humor as well. Think along the lines of Anne Taintor artwork, in which humor is used in the form of retro housewives imagery. You can find this type of comical décor in the form of matching napkins, plates, and drinkware, or in the forms of party favors such as coasters, wine bottle charms, or stoppers.

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Send out invitations with humorous retro designs to the guests and encourage them to dress up in 1950’s housewives style. Patterns like polka dots with bright colors of reds, navys, blacks, pinks, and whites are also great for décor and really make the venue space pop! Cherry red balloons with white polka dots, navy streamers, and hot pink table cloths with big bow sashes for guest chairs all tie in seamlessly together, while metal toasters, a pale pink mixer, and turquoise vases filled with white daisies complete the 1950’s look.

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Housewife Bridal Shower Food

Food can also serve as décor in that it will be just as eye-catching! Put old timey glass bottles of Coca Cola in large mint green metal ice buckets with white and red striped straws nearby. A main event cake in the form of a high, multi-tiered tower filled with colorful cupcakes with thick icing, tons of sprinkles, and cherries on top is perfect to put at the center of the main food table. Set up a station to make soda floats with ice cream, and have plenty of chocolate chip cookies, rice crispy treats, fudge, and classic candy such as rock candy, jelly beans, and sugar drops. Tea sandwiches and miniature bagels work great for salty fares, while setting up an activity in which guests get to put on a cute apron (that they can take home with them!) and bake together is a great idea to fill the space with yummy, fresh goodness.

Housewives Bridal Shower Games

Favors and games can really be merged together in the form of a bake off, a contest for the best dressed housewife, and other activities such as The Apron Game, Why do we do that, and Who Knows the Bride Best. Award prizes that guests can use as much as they enjoy looking at, such as candle holders, miniature desk calendars, or soda koozies—all with 1950’s funny housewives images. These are great ways to make your 1950’s Housewives themed bridal shower one that no one will forget!

Housewives Bridal Shower Favors

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A bridal shower is a fun occasion to celebrate a soon-to-be bride, and the more personality this once in a lifetime party has, the better! For a lovely lady who is a wine enthusiast, a wine-themed bridal shower could be particularly enjoyable and unique for all the guests. It also makes planning and putting the event together that much more exciting and easy, as your options are limitless when it comes to all you do with this theme.

Wine Bridal Shower Invites

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Wine Bridal Shower Decor

A perfect place to have the bridal shower would be at the winery for this theme. But, you can make it just as fun by decorating it like you’re at one!

Decorations can be flirty and fabulous, and you can never have too much wine-inspired goodies! Wine decals on the walls, miniature chalkboards with random facts about different types of wine and what food those wines pair well with are as interesting as they are cute. Keep your color palate for decorations along the same lines as different kinds of wine and their coordinating grapes—think greens, deep reds, and hues of champagne and blush. Make centerpieces from glass vases filled with wine corks and deep purple roses. Place accents of different types of wine glasses, bottles, and faux bunches of grapes along walls or tables that serve as a creative sort of garland. Blush pink tablecloths and curled white ribbon makes for great extra accents as well.

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Wine Bridal Shower Food

Food will be a big focal point of the bridal shower, because food should be purposefully selected to pair well with a wine bar that you’ll set up as well. For the main event table, make sure to have a really creative cake, either in sheet form in the shape of a glass or bottle of the bride-to-be’s favorite type of wine, or as a multi-tiered cake with sugar fondant accents and glittering wine barrel toppers. While typical desserts such as sugar cookies, cake pops, or macaroons are a must-have staple, sweets that pair really well with wine should make up most of your dessert table. Dark chocolate treats along with fruits like strawberries and blackberries taste wonderfully with any kind of wine. Set up a wine bar in which guests have a variety of wines to try, along with—of course—a fabulous cheese tray setup. Cheeses, dips, crackers, veggies, and smoked meats are perfect to pair with wine and fill up the guests’ bellies.

Wine Themed Games & Favors

Classic and giggle-inducing games like Bridal Bingo or Bride Mad Libs are great ideas to stick with and prizes can serve as favors for winners as well. Guess how many corks are in the jar instead of candies is another great idea.

Favors are so much fun to put together for a wine themed bridal shower. Wine glasses, wine glass charms, aged bottles of wine with personalized labels, keychains, and wine bottle stoppers and openers are just a small fraction of ideas that you can bundle up and give to guests as great party favors. From popping corks of champagne, to sipping on pinot grigio, or trying a new merlot, this bridal shower will surely be a memorable one in which everyone has a fabulous time.

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A bridal shower is such a magical time as it is, so why not give the party an equally majestic theme full of beauty and fun. A butterfly themed bridal shower is one that is as nostalgic as it is unique, and it puts a really feminine spin on this very special event.

Butterfly Bridal Shower Invites

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Butterfly Bridal Shower Decor

What’s especially great about this theme is that you really can’t overdo it on the amount of butterflies you bring into the décor, food, games, or favors. You can even wrap up the bride’s gifts in butterfly themed paper and set her up an area for gift opening that replicates a wild butterfly garden. You can do tons of your own paper cutouts of butterflies in all sizes and tape them up along walls, tables, chairs, doorways, and even create neat garland out of them. Keep your color palate for decorations just as charming, and stick with glossy whites, pastel pinks, sky blues, and butter yellow. You can utilize these hues in balloons, streamers, flag banners showcasing congratulations messages to the bride-to-be, tablecloths, chair sashes, and the color of the faux butterfly accent as well. Don’t forget sweet table accents such as glittering butterfly confetti and vases filled with gorgeous river rock and a variety of garden blooms that butterflies would be known to love.

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Butterfly Bridal Shower Food

For food fare, opt for decadent and visually beautiful tastes. Make the center of your main event table the shower cake, and think about doing a multi-tiered cake with rainbow ombre icing and lots of butterfly sugar accents, along with a great topper with “I do!” spelled out in miniature butterflies. Sugar cookies and cupcakes with thick, colorful frosting and bouncing butterfly decorations. Pearlescent cakepops and corresponding treats like flower shaped candies are delicious and a really great extra for guests to enjoy. Pink lemonade and peach Bellini’s, along with fresh veggie plates and tea sandwiches are just as delicious and pair great with the desserts.

Butterfly Bridal Shower Games

Activities and games can range from old-school favorites such as Bridal Secrets, the Wedding Dress Toilet Paper Contest, Mad Libs, or Bridal Bingo. Likewise, you can come up with some new creative games as well that incorporate the theme of butterflies into them. Have guests use mix artwork and butterflies with activities such as paint by number or creating stain glass with butterfly images.

Butterfly Bridal Shower Favors

Don’t forget to be unique with your party favors for guests to show them how much you appreciate them coming out to celebrate the new bride. Butterfly wine bottle stoppers, charm bracelets, candle holders, or smaller pieces of artwork are all fabulous ways to send your guests home with a keepsake they will love forever.

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