Bridal Shower Luncheon?

I am the maid of honor in an upcoming wedding. I am planning on putting on a Spring Luncheon/Bridal Shower at my house. I plan on doing and indoor/outdoor party with finger foods and salads, wine, fresh flowers etc. I also plan on renting a tent and tables/chairs incase of bad weather, it will be the first week of May in New England. Hopefully it will be beautiful. Any ideas of things I could be missing?

Bridal Shower Luncheon?
Sounds good. The last 3 years I have hosted 2 bridal showers and I did the finger foods and cake. I also passed out favors to everyone who showed up and I had games and gifts for the games.
Reply:It sounds perfectly elegant to me. I'm sure it will be wonderful!
Reply:Music


Cake
Reply:A "secretary" with a digicam to keep track of who brought which gift, to make little notes about each guest so as to more personalize the thank you notes.


Silly games with silly prizes.


Hot drinks.


Plans for a small "thank you note" party in which friends help the bride get all those notes written and in the mail. "On behalf of" letters of thanks are perfectly correct and should read something like


"Dear Colleen,


Amy wanted you to know how pleased she is with your fancy guest towels and soaps. They will certainly add elegance to her powder room. You were just amazing at the clothes pin game! We all look forward to seeing you at the wedding.


Yours truly, Linda Bowman (Amy's bridesmaid)"





Make sure someone gifts the bride with enough stamps and informals (the cards with a picture on the front and blank inside) to write all these notes. Have fun, lots of fun!
Reply:cake and music, and possibly hire a student from the local high school photography club to take photos for you so you dont miss out on anything, as well. :)
Reply:I just had my bridal shower a week ago and it was fun except for the gifts, I got cleaning aids because my fiancé and me are living together and have all the basics - although there are much needed - but that's what I got. Try some activities, the way we do most of bridal showers in South Africa is that each guest buys something for the home and wrap it in a dish cloth with clothing pins, now the aim of the game is to let the bride guess what the gift is without peeking. If she guesses incorrectly she must do something embarrassing. My maid of honor made up a list of personal questions they asked my fiancé, and when I didn't guess correctly I had to answer a question - you really realize how well you know him after that - and if I answer correct I was safe, if I answer wrong I had to do something like do the moves of the macarena or sing a song or something. It will also be nice if you ask guests to bring a gift to enter the shower apart from all other gifts. For more game, etc. ideas just Google bridal shower ideas, games, themes, etc. It's just a thought, use it, don't use it. Wish you the best of luck!!!
Reply:It sounds lovely.





You may consider what music, if any, you will use. Also, are there any special things you want to do during the shower or do you plan to visit and open gifts? (ideas may include shower games--which I'm personally not a fan of; guest saying nice things about the bride; giving marriage "advice" to her, either in writing or verbally; and so on).
Reply:Dessert. I would either do a cake or miniature cream puffs and miniature eclairs. We had those at one of my showers and they were wonderful. They got them at Sam's Club and just put them on some pretty plates and let them thaw and then put a plate on each tablewhen it was time for dessert. IIt was a lot nicer and classier than a cake imo. I wouldn't serve alcohol at lunch. I would stick with non alcoholic beverages like coffee, tea, water, punch, soda. Not many people drink even wine that early in the day.





You may want to check into renting the tent and chairs because that's going to be pretty expensive. If the weather is too bad to have it outside, I would just set some extra chairs up inside and have it inside. You can always rent or borrow a few card tables and put some beautiful table cloths over them. No one will know the difference nor will they care.