Award Party - Couples Shower
This bridal shower theme is perfect during the movie awards show season between January and March, or there are a few sprinkled through the summer, like the MTV Movie Awards and Tony Awards in June.
Of course, the piece de resistance would be hosting the wedding shower for the happy couple on the evening of the Golden Globes or Academy Awards.
Now that you have a theme for the couples shower, it's time to get down to to the details!
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Here are some important details to consider for setting up a successful Awards Party theme:- Invitations. Make formal invitations that say "black tie" and announce the planned activities of the evening. If you're able to organize the shower on the actual evening of the awards night, include ballot sheets inside the invitations so guests can do a little research and bring them filled out to your event.
- Dress. Decide with the bride/groom and wedding party whether the party will include "formal dress" or a celebrity look-alike contest so it can be communicated on the party invitations.
- Decorations. Think shiny, with lots of silver, gold and crystal for your decorations. If hosting a super special shower, consider renting china and silver from a party rental supplier.
- Location. An awards party is a social affair that is often centered around the television. Depending on where you are planning on hosting the event, you may be all gathered around a big screen, or at several conversational stations with televisions for viewing.
- Activities and prizes. The nature of an awards night makes activities very easy - you can have a host of different competitions going on and give door prizes for the most accurate ballot, who predicted the worst dressed celebrities or how many women would wear black/red/etc, what speech would be ended by music first.
- Food and drinks. You can serve an amazing sit-down dinner ala the Vanity Fair after-party, or have a fabulous buffet set up that guests can graze from during the arrivals and awards.
Some gift ideas for either door prizes or for the wedding couple are gift certificaters to movie theaters or video stores, DVDs, DVD player, popcorn popper or going in together to get a television.