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I'm not married yet, but I've thrown a bridal shower for a friend. In my family/area, it's usually a non-immediate family member or friend who throws the shower. So a bridesmaid who isn't a sibling, an aunt, a family friend, etc. For my friend, two of us bridesmaids organized it and held it at a relative of her husband's home.
My MOH and her mother planned and hosted my bridal shower. Sometimes its the MOH and the bridesmaids that do it or maybe your aunts or something like that
It very much depends on what the custom or accepted practice is in the area you live.
Here, showers are usually thrown by anyone other than immediate family of the bride. That might be bridesmaids, MOH, work colleagues, groom's family, friends, church members etc.
Being invited to a shower is in no way related to whether or not you will be invited to the wedding.
i'm not into surprise parties and my girls knew that. my bridesmaids (sister and sil) organized it and my parents paid for it.
when i was in a wedding recently the bride's mother did most of the planning and all of the paying, but the bridesmaids helped with different ideas and games. hers was a surprise.
My mother organized one of my showers (my husband and I decided not to have a wedding party-however my sisters organized the games), friends of mine threw me a surprise shower (the girls all organized it), and my work had another shower for me. I wasn't too keen on having any showers, but was grateful nonetheless to those who took the time to organize them for me.
For me, I've helped in the planning, since my bridal party (both of my sisters) live out of town. But they are hosting the shower for me.
My mother and (then) FMIL organized my showers. Not traditonal but it worked out beautifully
my Bms are doing mine and his sister is one of my brideshandlers lol and she might be giving me one in oct as well
I didn't want one! I am very shy! Plus my guest list is smaller. I am afraid people won't come!
However, my good friend who is a bridesmaid (still need to ask her to be MOH) is throwing me a bridal shower.
Then, there is someone who is retired from my work who wants to also throw me a wedding shower......with work people.
I didn't want one either. Then out of the blue, my dad's wife asks to host one. Dang it. Now I have to have one, or risk insulting her. And my mom won't even come because of some serious past drama between those two. Which means I'm going to have to have two showers now. I know I must sound ungrateful, but being in a spotlight on the wedding day is going to be hard enough.
I didn't really care if I had one but my FMIL really wanted to have one so my FSIL planned it since we don't have a wedding party and my closest girlfriends live out of town and won't be in until 3 days before the wedding. I think it's nice that they took the time to organize it.
I'm not having bridesmaids. My Aunts organized one shower (hometown) and my FMIL is giving the other (where I live now). I think a lot of different people could throw it, but generally not you yourself, or the bride's mom.
Mine is tomorrow! I'm very excited ;)
My aunt and my bridesmaids are throwing me one huge shower. All my bridesmaids either just finished grad school or are working their asses off==> none have very much money. Aunt has no daughters and I'm the closest she has to a daughter of her own. My aunt is paying for most of the shower, and the girls did a lot of the work, so it was a perfect compromise.
Your bridesmaids are fully in charge of everything. It's very rare for a shower to be a surprise because they need to know what weekend the bride is available to attend. The only input the bride has is a list of whomever she wants to invite.
i think most people would agree that you shouldn't throw your own wedding shower. also, i respectfully disagree with julies1949- i certainly wouldn't invite anyone to the wedding shower that wasn't invited to the wedding.
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Hey Bee's
who organized your bridal shower?
did you do it yourself or was it a surprise?