Bridal Shower Invitations

Bridal shower invitations are harbingers of good news. They arrive suddenly and herald not only that there is going to be a bridal shower soon, but also that there is going to be a wedding too! They are a joyous sign that jubilant change is in the wind. It is a time for friends and family to come together to shower gifts on this woman who will, before they know it, be a bride.

Bridal shower invitations can be as formal or informal as the bride wants them to be. They can be formally engraved, or they can be funny and cartoonish. They can be handcrafted or ordered from a custom printer. They can be hand-delivered to coworkers and friends, or they can be hand-addressed and delivered through hail, sleet and snow by the mailman. In today’s internet-savvy society, they can even be electronically delivered to a bride’s email list.

If the bridal shower has a particular theme to it, then the bridal shower invitations will usually keep to that theme. For a shower with a kitchen theme, there are invitations with blank recipe cards for invited guests to write their favorite recipes on and bring with them to the shower. There are invitations with “advice” cards slipped into them. Guests can write their favorite piece of advice for the bride-to-be and put it into the card accompanying their gift. There also also invitations with “bridal memory cards” in them for guests to write their favorite memory of the bride for a special memory scrapbook which is put together at the shower.

Although there are unique and one-of-a-kind bridal shower invitations, most brides-to-be want to hark back to tradition when it comes to their weddings. The wide assortment of invitations available at local print shops as well as at online stores, tell a tale of engagements and weddings. How they are today, and how they’ve always been. Most invitations are splashes of white, pink and silver. They speak of love - romantic love, young love, forever love. They have drawings of doves, English gardens, teapots, flowers, butterflies, even teddy bears. They have traditional wedding symbols on them – wedding cakes, wedding rings, a bridal gown, some even picture a garter on the front of them. There’s every conceivable type of flower pictured on bridal shower invitations – roses, orchids, pansies, sunflowers, gardenias. It’s another part of tradition. Because everyone knows that women love flowers. There’s also a lot of hearts on bridal shower invitations – red hearts and pink hearts, big hearts and small hearts, hearts intertwined and hearts standing alone. There’s one common theme on bridal shower invitations, no matter the style. Love…love…and more love…

We will talk a little about bridal shower invitations and what makes them such a fun part of the whole wedding experience, we will share some common (and uncommon) bridal shower themes, bridal shower games that are typically played at bridal showers, and give an overview of traditional bridal shower favors as well as those that are non-traditional.