If you are planning a beach wedding, you can start the festivities early by having a beach-themed wedding shower. A beach themed bridal shower will give you and your friends a chance to preview the spot where you will get married. It may even allow you to brainstorm some creative ideas you hadn’t even thought of yet. Even if you are not having a beach wedding, you can still have a beach themed bridal shower just for fun. You can even make the bridal shower a day long event where you and all your guests can spend some time catching up and catching rays on the beach. Here is a no-fail guide to planning a bridal shower on the beach.
Planning for the Beach-Themed Bridal Shower: Make sure you plan ahead for your beach themed wedding shower. You don’t want to just show up with tables and beach chairs and set up a party. Check with whoever owns the property where you want to throw the bridal shower, be it a hotel, restaurant, or local city hall. Before the party, check to see if you have access to electricity, running water, chairs, shade umbrellas, or seating.
Beach-Themed Bridal Shower Invitations: To create unique beach themed bridal shower invitations, purchase black invitation card stock with a crease down the middle for folding. You will also need a rubber stamp that says bridal shower, and a large stamp that has “day”, “time”, and “place” that you can use inside the invitation. Wedding bell stamps can also be a nice addition to your set. You will need gold or silver ink to go with your stamp set. Cut a sandcastle out of a fine sandpaper and adhere it the front of your card with glue. Complete and decorate the card with your stamp and inks and then fill in the particulars in pen.
Beach-Themed Bridal Shower Decor: Dress a banquet table with raffia table skirts, topped with a white table cloth. Decorate the table with sea shells that you can find on the beach in advance, or perhaps you can purchase personalized shells. Add coconut drinking cups, and balloons weighed down by decorative buckets of sand with a few shells and star fish pressed into the top. Add a few lanterns and tiki torches if the bridal shower will last into the evening.
Beach-Themed Bridal Shower Favors: For favors to give you to your guests, start with Lei’s, to put around the neck of each guest as she arrives. As you play different bridal shower games, hand out sea shell key chains, candles with the cent of the ocean, or shell decorated candles. If you are crafty, consider making candles out of seashells yourself to use as party favors. As you say goodbye to your guests, give out decorated bags of freshly baked starfish cookies.
Beach-Themed Bridal Shower Menu: Keep the menu for your beach themed bridal shower light and easy. Serve fruit salad, sandwiches made from cold-cut trays and an rolls, and to drink make fruity smoothie or Margarita type drinks. For desert, order a sandcastle shaped cake from your local cake artist.
