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Free wedding shower planning tips

Many brides-to-be host a tea or a buffet to thank friends for all the wedding preparations that have endured and to make the last arrangements. Usually, when is a meeting with casual dress, the girls are meeting only for the opportunity to talk with the bride. Tradition says that during the wedding shower, the bridesmaids offer some gifts to the bride, but nowadays the bride also shares small gifts to her bridesmaids in appreciation for their efforts in planning the wedding.




Here are some free wedding showers planning tips.
When you should meet
The tea or the buffet are usually held with a day or two before the wedding and sometimes in the big day. The time is right, especially if the bridesmaids are from all over and will stay in town a few days. Also, the tensions tend to reach peak in the final stages – a relaxed meal, a reflecting one, is the perfect way to get calm.
Before choosing the date and the time, think what things you can do.  If you think you’ll get hysterical when the big day arrives, better organize something simple. Many brides like the formality of a traditional buffet tea: white tablecloths, fine porcelain, girls wearing floral dresses and manicure freshly made. However, the idea is to relax and stay together. Don’t stress thinking at details: if you want something relax, organize an informal meeting. And if the meeting takes place just few hours before dressing the bridal gown, there is no problem if everyone is in bathrobe and so on. Make sure everyone knows what it is about and let things simple.

Who will you invite?
Lady of honor, bridesmaids and flower girl are part of the guest list, no invitations are necessary (if you don’t plan something very formal). Some brides include also their mothers, grandparents and other members of the family. Organize something intimate. While you formally reward bridesmaids for their efforts and they offer you their gifts, remember that this is also a bittersweet occasion. In many ways, tea for bridesmaids is a party split.

Everyone stays at same hotel?
The restaurant is an elegant and handy location – or imagine yourself a place that has special significance for all: a favorite cafe or tea room? Mother’s basement? Grandfather’s country club? Also take into account the output for a picnic on the beach or a party in the park.

What to serve
If you’ll meet in the wedding day, plan a light menu. Most guests will probably be too busy to eat and also you don’t want that everyone get bubble because they ate cream sauce or a very spicy enchilada. Traditional tea – light sandwiches, mini pies, mint – is it safe, but also Caesar salad, rolls, fruit and even sushi can be an excellent meal, without being overwhelming. If tea or buffet takes place several days before the big event, prepare food that you know that all your friends and also you love, but don’t forget that you have no reason for why you should plan a feast. Emphasis should fall on how you feel together.

Gifts for bridesmaids
Those gifts for bridesmaids that took you a long time to find them.  Now is  time to offer them! You can put the gifts on the bridesmaids’ places or you can present the goodies. It’s up to you. You have 10 or 12 bridesmaid, or just two – but you should take your time to thank to each one with a handwritten note. Or choose to give personal gifts, coming forward to say a few words about your relationship with each maid of honor. If this doesn’t represent you, don’t worry – add your own gestures to enhance the state of vibration.

Other key moments
Other significant activities can be part of the bridesmaids tea. Often, the group take the opportunity to bring the bride something old, new, borrowed and blue. And if any have tried to buy the bride a special wedding gift, they will present, maybe with few words of blessing from the maid of honor. What else? The married women can come prepared to share what they learned about marriage, usually in the form of amusing anecdotes, moving memories and advice.

Free wedding shower planning tips-don’t forget about a charming tradition
In traditional wedding circles, especially in the South, an estimated moment for bridesmaids tea is cake charm. Deathly symbolic (usually silver coin) are connected by ribbons of 30 cm (one for each maid of honor), the ribbons are then arranged between the lower layer of cake and plate, hanging on the table. At tea, each maid of honor pull a ribbon, and the talisman that she extracts contains a special message. Examples: hoof = luck, anchor = adventure awaits you, lily flower = love will bloom, wedding bells = next to get married, ring = next which will betroth; camera = fame and fortune, and so on.