Bridal Shower Related Questions

Smile1114 · March 2011

What was the best favor you've gotten at a shower?

My FMIL knows I love to cook so she thought of when sending out the invitations including a recipe card asking for the guests favorite recipe to bring to the shower.

She also wanted to do a cooking/kitchen/baking related wishing well.

If she did this what kind of centerpieces and favors could she do that would be cute and cost effective at the same time?

Do you think the wishing well is tacky? I kind of want people to just stick to the registry. So if they didnt do the wishing well how could they still do a cooking related theme with the recipe cards and centerpieces and favors?

Im sorry if these questions seem like they have obvious answers but my brain is on wedding overload and Im totally freaking out about everything. Im basically planning the shower with their ideas and then going to them with prices and everything but Im doing the leg work bc my mom and sister suck at this stuff and they would totally screw it up.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

paprika28 · March 2011

I love the recipie card. Love it. I use mine all the time. I'm not a huge fan of the wishing well, unless you stick to something like spices. For my baby shower, my mom had everyone bring stuff like lotions, soaps, etc with the guest's name on it, so every time I used it, I thought of them. You could do that with spices if you wanted...

I've never gotten a favor at a bridal shower, and never really expected to.

Centerpieces- a few daisies in a mason jar with a ribbon tied around it works for me... or a small cupcake tree.

miguelhilary2010 · March 2011

Best favors... my own shower where they gave out glasses with small bottles of riesling and hennessey LOL

I like the recipe card and wishing well idea. I don't think people will take away from gifts to add a $2 utensil to the wishing well. My friend's shower had a tool wishing well for her FI and some people got really creative! It was cute, and I think the older guests really enjoyed that tradition.

Can your mom just do flower centerpieces with grocery store flowers? Whole foods carries tulips for like $8 a bunch, and she could get vases at the dollar store. I'm not a theme-thinking person, can you tell?

Madam A · March 2011

We had recipe cards at my shower and I loved the idea. This took the place of the wishing well, though. My mom had bought a cute recipe box and left it open near the gift table so people just dropped their recipes in there (in place of a wishing well).

I like the idea of cooking/baking-related favors. I just did a google-search and came across this site: http://www.daisy-days.com/kicofa.html

There are some cute ideas here - wire whisks, salt & pepper shakers, tongs, etc.

amy727 · March 2011

I love the recipe card idea. I got a lot of great recipes at my shower.

I never heard of the wishing well thing until I moved here. At my friends shower recently a lot of the stuff she got she already had. It depends if you need a lot of the small stuff.

Amerbutt81 · March 2011

I love the recipe card idea-- my mom did one, and I have used a bunch of the recipes!

I have no idea what a wishing well is...???

As far as favors ago.. they are the same as wedding favors to me. I could not tell you one favor that I've ever kept. I don't even remember what favors I have gotten at other showers, besides the last one I was at (and psss... don't tell anyone, but that still hasn't made it out of my car yet).

I think what my MOH did for my wedding shower was get small potted flowers (gerber daisies, maybe?) and used them as centerpeices. I think she then used them as the prizes for the games we played.

miguelhilary2010 · March 2011

I ordered personalized m&m's and put them in small "LOVE" tins that I got cheap at Michaels for my friend's shower.

Madam A · March 2011

The favors for my bridal shower were tiny little galvanized pots with summery-scented candles in them. My mom added grass to make them look like plants and they were really cute! I thought that was a nice favor because I like to have extra candles (and they smelled awesome!)

Smile1114 · March 2011

REALLY great ideas! Thank you so much!

jelybeancg · March 2011

The best bridal shower favor I received was vanilla flavored sugar. It was for my cousin. Her sister bought glass containers from walmart and put a sprig of vanilla in it and filled it with sugar. After a few weeks the sugar was vanilla flavored. She put a cute tag on it saying something like "love is sweet". All of our family still have them 9 years later. They have replaced the vanilla and just refill the sugar.

We did the recipies for my friend and she loved it.

Maybe for a centerpiece, if you do the wishing well, put small baskets on each table and each person can put what they brought for the wishing well into the baskets creating the centerpieces with a cooking theme.

nicole8586 · March 2011

My mom did the recipe cards for my shower and I also loved it! That is where my fiesta chicken came from

My shower didn't really have a theme and I am drawing a blank for ideas right now!

RecoveringActor · March 2011

Amer--I have only been to one shower with a wishing well.... and it was explained to me that it's an Italian American tradition, but that could be wrong. This particular bride is SUPER Italian, so it made sense me.

Basically, in addition to a shower gift, you also bring something for the wishing well. At this shower, the wishing well was cleaning products. So everyone brought their favorite cleaning product. I thought it was weird, to be perfectly honest.

Madam A · March 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_pennsylvania-philadelphia_bridal-shower-related-questions?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:105Discussion:bef04c77-86f0-400c-a632-24044656556bPost:750e4f17-717e-4787-9e8c-4729bd918a45">Re: Bridal Shower Related Questions</a>:
[QUOTE]Amer--I have only been to one shower with a wishing well.... and it was explained to me that it's an Italian American tradition, but that could be wrong. This particular bride is SUPER Italian, so it made sense me. Basically, in addition to a shower gift, you also bring something for the wishing well. At this shower, the wishing well was cleaning products. <strong>So everyone brought their favorite cleaning product. I thought it was weird, to be perfectly honest.
</strong>Posted by RecoveringActor[/QUOTE]

IMO, this works better for baby showers (small baby items like toys, bibs, pacifiers)

ev4149 · March 2011

I also had a recipe card at my shower, and it was great! I love the idea. I had a kitchen themed wishing well. My family all does wishing wells (we're Italian), and I had put a lot of small kitchen items on the registry, so that was a lot of it. Plus, people got really creative and got me all kinds of funky things that I didn't ask for but were really cool! I got cookie cutters,wine bottle opener, things like that.

For favors, my mom did chocolate dipped pretzel rods, and she bought lotions from Bath and Body Works ("Carried Away" scent) that she got on one of their super sales.

QTsgirl522 · March 2011

We did recipe cards for ladybugs shower. I think should take the place of a wishing well.

We gave ladybug magnets for her shower as favors. I like them. For my sister's shower we had a candy buffett and my SIL we did mini cheese graters (I wouldn't recommend that one). My cousin's we had mini tins of lip gloss and for mine it was a mini candle. That's all I can remember.

You can get a cookie cutter shaped like a heart or something as a cheap favor and that goes along with the cooking theme.

ev4149 · March 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_pennsylvania-philadelphia_bridal-shower-related-questions?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:105Discussion:bef04c77-86f0-400c-a632-24044656556bPost:750e4f17-717e-4787-9e8c-4729bd918a45">Re: Bridal Shower Related Questions</a>:
[QUOTE]Amer--I have only been to one shower with a wishing well.... and it was explained to me that it's an Italian American tradition, but that could be wrong. This particular bride is SUPER Italian, so it made sense me. Basically, in addition to a shower gift, you also bring something for the wishing well. At this shower, the wishing well was cleaning products. So everyone brought their favorite cleaning product. I thought it was weird, to be perfectly honest.
Posted by RecoveringActor[/QUOTE]

Haha, wow, this one is super old school Italian. I got some cleaning products (toilet paper, Windex, Clorox wipes) from the older Italian ladies. My mom told me that was what was done when she got married years ago.

LadybugBride3 · March 2011

I personally don't like wishing wells and specifically requested not to have them. I did love all the recipes I got though!

I went to a shower recently and there was a wine wishing well! and I thought that was pretty ridiculous. There really is no reason why you need 50-60 bottles of wine!

I don't think favors are really necessary, most of the time I throw it away, unless its something food/candy related.

mandy122782 · March 2011

At my FSIL's bridal shower a few years ago, they gave out measuring spoons like these (clicky) and had a little bag of spices. I thought it was cute and I actually have used the spoons sometimes. I do have other measuring spoons but the heart shaped ones work perfectly fine too!

And candy or food of some sort would work with your theme and people always enjoy food!

happywithhim715 · March 2011

My bridal party sent out recipe cards with the invites and then compiled them in a box for me.. I love it

Wishing Well, i had one.... some very practical items were in it, some items not so much and other items that made me laugh out loud... Practical: The wishing well was a laundry basket, Sponges, dish soap, not so much- mini trash can (It holds me pens and pencils currently)... things that made me laugh out loud: KY Jelly.... I little weird seeing my dad carry in the basket with KY Jelly it in...

Centerpieces, my aunt made... Had nothing to do with cooking but a flower arrangement with my wedding colors incoprated in

happywithhim715 · March 2011

For favors- my bridal party found compact mirrors with a damask design on the front... Many of my guests I have seen with their mirrors in their pocketbooks still... I love mine.... I went to a shower the other day and it was a heart luggage tag

AnneN2011 · March 2011

I made herb infued olive oil as favors for my cousin's shower last year. It was pretty cheap and fun to make. I put it in little corked bottles from Michael's and tied Raffia aroud the necks.

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