The hostess had prepared favors with two heart shaped cookie cutters that were then put into a sheer heart shaped gift bag and tied with a beautiful silk ribbon. Attached to the ribbon was a thank you note with a recipe for sugar cookies printed on the other side. So cute!

We shower the Bride with gifts, it’s true
But this shower gift is just for you!

Recipe For A Happy Marriage Poem

4 cups of Love
2 cups of Loyalty
Dash of Faith
3 cups of Kindness
4 cups of Understanding
1 cup of Friendship
5 spoonfuls of Hope
1 barrel of Laughter
Pinch of Forgiveness (no substitutions)
Dash of Thoughtfulness (not optional)

Take love and loyalty and mix thoroughly with faith.
Blend in kindness and understanding, add friendship and hope.
Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Garnish with forgiveness and thoughtfulness.
Bake with sunshine.
Serve daily with generous helpings.

Bejewel all of your favorite girlfriends with this indulgently oversized jewel and your party is sure to be remembered for a long time! This diamond ring keychain is a great one of a kind gift that every girl will love to carry around.

Each keychain comes with five smaller key rings for you to keep your keys organized. Each keychain is only $2.80, and there are price breaks if you order in quantities of 20 and more ($2.60), then again at 144 ($2.40).

Each key ring measures 1″ Dia. x 1.75″ H and comes packaged in a beautiful gift box with the message and tied with white organza ribbon and a “For You” gift tag. These will look beautiful sitting on your favor table and your shower guests will definitely love taking this favor home!

You can purchase the diamond ring keychain at Beau Coup.

As the Beauty Themed Shower implies, this event is all about pampering and making sure everyone has a wonderfully relaxing time. Bring in a manicurist or two to treat the bride and your guests to manicure and pedicures. If the guest list is on the big side, bring in a team of professionals so everyone can enjoy the services without having to wait in long lines. An option to hiring a team of professionals is to find a teaching facility in your community and see if the students are available for events.

Guests always appreciate a bridal favor that can be enjoyed after the shower celebration, and has a practical use. Beauty treatments or products can make wonderful take-aways, and very fun when they are decorated to compliment your event with wedding motif. Our favorites are often small enough to store in a purse, and are available in many price ranges. Here are a few ideas for favors that your shower guests are sure to enjoy!

Wedding Themed or Personalized Nail File. Can you seriously ever have enough emery boards or nail files?! With all the delicate, silky clothing currently in style we can all appreciate having a file available to immediately take care of nail emergencies! Personalized emery boards can be made especially for the occasion, and while you usually have to order in bulk for the personalization, giving a bundle of 3 to 5 emery boards tied together with a pretty ribbon is a cute little take-away favor. There are also the emery boards packaged inside a matchbook cover, which can be personalized with the wedding details or clever saying. Both of these sweet gifts are small enough for your guests to tuck into their purse and will definitely be put to good use.
One of my personal favorites is the cute matchbook cover emery boards that look like flower petals and have He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not on the emery boards, which you pick like a flower petal when you’re ready to use one. While these do not come personalized, you can make design a round sticker to put on the back of the cover with the bride’s wedding details.

Manicure Kit. Going along with the manipedi theme of the Beauty Bridal Shower, your guests will absolutely appreciate having a portable manicure kit as the shower favor. You can easily create your own manicure kit, using the files we mentioned above, plus adding in nail clippers, buffers, etc. Or you could buy an already prepared kit that nicely packages everything your guests will need for keeping their nail treatments looking beautiful When it looks as adorable as this manicure kit that has tweezers, cuticle scissors, clippers and a file tucked inside a chic pink and black carrying case, your guests will remember the event for years to come. To personalize this kit, put a pretty wedding motif sticker on the box or packaging.

Sachet. Your guests can have a sweet reminder of the bride and your event every day when you select a subtle, scented sachet as the shower favor. It’s so nice to open a drawer that has a sachet in it, with the smell gently wafting through the air or that can be enjoyed by placing in a bathroom or even used to keep a car smelling fresh. The key to selecting a sachet is to go with a scent that is not overpowering. Choose a sachet that is sweet, has a powder smell, or is light enough for a baby’s nursery to ensure that it will be well-received by your bridal shower guests. Sachets come packaged in gift boxes or can be bought individually. Many are made of satin, and it may be a great idea to coordinate the colors of the sachet with the upcoming wedding colors. You can either wrap the sachet with a ribbon that has been foil stamped with the bridal shower details or just the names of the bride and groom. The ribbon can also be placed around the top of the sachet for effect. To preserve the scent or to keep multiple scents from mixing prior to giving out the favors, you may want to place the sachet in a cellophane bag.

Soaps. Pretty and soft-smelling decorative soaps make a first-class impression as bridal shower favors. They do not have to be very expensive at all. Often, you can find a bevy of decorative soaps at a bath product store, like Bath & Body Works, a home furnishing store like Bed Bath & Beyond or even your local discount store, like TJ Maxx or Marshalls. The key to making the most of these delicate bridal shower favors is how you package it for your guests. For a special touch, package the soaps in iridescent sheer fabrics with satin ribbons or get the soaps personalized with a monogram, the bridal shower details, or some other bridal decoration. Making homemade soap making is also popular. If this is a craft you enjoy, you could create some absolutely spectacular little soaps that contain different wedding-inspired embellishments. For example, you may put a bow shaped soap piece in the bar or a little bell, then package to compliment the wedding colors or bride’s interests.

Bed And Bath Baskets. No one can resist fabulous little baskets or boxes filled with all sorts of personal beauty products. You can either buy them as a prepackaged set or put the sets together yourself. A traditional arrangement would include bath and shower gel, hand and body lotion, some type of cleansing tool like a loofah or bath mitt, and luxury items such as bath pillow and scented candles. These little sets are usually wrapped with iridescent or clear cellophane wrapping paper, then decorated with ribbons and bows. Bridal shower guests will really adore receiving these sets and, if packaged in a keepsake box or basket, they may get even greater use out of this small gift. These more elaborate favors may start to run up the budget for your event, so consider having 2 or 3 larger gift baskets like this that can be used a door prizes or for drawings.

Spa Slippers. Have fun Spa slippers on hand for your guests who indulge in the pedicure treatments. We love these set of three animal print spa slippers, available from NailFileStore.com for about $3 a pair.

When planning a bridal shower, select one or all of these beauty care bridal shower favors for the guests. Your guests will thank you and you’ll be happy knowing that you gave them something that will make them also feel and look their best!

Select ten or twelve spices for this game. They can either be in spice bottles, with the labels covered or in little ramekins. You decide if you want to use blindfolds or if you want the guests to be able to look at the spices to help them guess!

Pick some common spices, which will be easy for many guests to guess. Also select some less common spices that will challenge some the expert chefs that will be at your event! The guest with the most correct answers wins! The spices can either be part of the prize or can be given to the bride to start her spice collection.

Save the See-Through Thong for the Bachelorette Party!

The intimate nature of lingerie itself lends this type of shower to being hosted by good friends. It might be a good idea to invite the bride’s grandmother to the “Stock The Kitchen Shower”—in the end, everyone will be more comfortable!

Invitations

As mentioned above, a “Lingerie Shower” is just that—an opportunity to gift the bride with sexy and flirty lingerie. Set the tone of your shower right off the bat with the invitation. The invitation itself will immediately convey to the guests whether over-the-top sexy or even trashy gifts are in order…or if they will be purchasing gifts that the new bride might actually wear!!

You might consider hand-making the invitations. The theme of the shower kind of lends itself to this—you could cut out a simple bodice shape, using nice white or ivory card stock. Try attaching pretty lace or ribbon, or even glue on a few rhinestone embellishments. Hot glue guns will work best and be the least noticeable! Again… if it’s more of a bachelorette party-type shower you are going for, the invitation can be a black lace garter. You get the idea.

Decorate? For a Lingerie Shower?

You bet! You can really go all out here, giving your home a sexy, feminine vibe (not that it doesn’t already feel sexy and feminine)! Start out with a good housecleaning. No, really. Simply scrubbing the floors and cleaning the bathrooms will make it smell great. Make up a sink-full of PineSol and wipe everything down with that. The stuff will make your whole house smell clean!! Next, you’ll want to have plenty of fresh flowers on hand. This time of year, there are many sources for flowers. Sam’s Club and Costco always have huge bouquets of beautiful flowers that aren’t budget-breakers. You can pick up your food while you’re there, too! More on the good eats later. Another spot for flowers is your own backyard! Or your neighbor’s. Or your mother’s. Pick whatever’s blooming and it will look great. You might also check out your local farmer’s market for fresh blooms. Purchase some scented candles to lend a nice soothing, sexy feel to the day. Nothing overpowering—save the apple pie scent for fall. Maybe something slightly floral…or even a chocolate-scented candle!!

Drinks & Food

As far as what time of day to have the actual event, I like to do a lingerie shower in the evening. You can really vamp up the mood with lighting (or lack thereof) and candles. Also, this is where the drinks come in… you MUST have champagne to toast the bride-to-be and her girlfriends! It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have some sparkling white grape juice on hand in case someone doesn’t drink or is pregnant. You could do champagne as your drink for the night…or you could mix up a signature cocktail, one that is especially loved by the bride. Either way, go for sexy and sophisticated! And what to nibble on with that champagne? Try this:

• Purchase 12-15 long-stemmed strawberries, green caps intact
• Slowly melt a bag of chocolate chips (I like dark, but you can use dark, milk and white to have a variety!) in the microwave, stirring after every 45 seconds
• Dip each strawberry into melted chocolate, about halfway up; twirl to shake off excess chocolate and let cool on wax paper.

How easy is that? And it’s much cheaper than purchasing them from a specialty store!

You’ll want to have some other food on hand to go with the chocolate-covered strawberries. Girlfriends, especially those with lingerie, swimming suits or jeans on the mind, like to nibble. As a hostess, nibbling is your friend. Look through your favorite cookbooks or online for your favorite appetizer and hors d’oeuvres recipes. Now’s the time to get a little more creative than the usual artichoke-spinach dip! Choose a few hot items to prepare, and a few cold items. Plan on 2 pieces each, per person. For a simple but totally awesome recipe, try some yummy tomato tarts. Ahh, summer! Girls always like a nice selection of cheeses, paired with assorted crackers and fruit. Just think bite-size!!

The Parting Gift

After all of that eating, drinking, laughing, lingerie-opening, drinking and laughing, it’s time to gift each guest with her own special favor. A darling, theme-appropriate idea is a sachet—for each girl to place in her own lingerie drawer! I checked a few places and found some cute ones that you might want to try. The best part about these? You can make them yourself, which will keep your costs down, and they aren’t difficult to make! Yes, you heard right…these pretty little sachets are on Martha Stewart’s site and THEY AREN’T DIFFICULT TO MAKE! Send the girlfriends out the door with their lovely sachets. Take off your shoes, prop your feet off and enjoy the left-over strawberries!