Having been a bride myself, I have to admit that a wedding shower for a new bride is like Christmas morning or a birthday party to a 5 year old. First we make a list, and then we check it twice, or five or six times. Next we tell everyone what we asked for, in hopes that if we’re good enough we’ll get everything we desire. Lastly, our family invites more family and friends for a gathering to eat cake and watch us open gifts.
Sounds like fun. Of course it’s fun if you’re the lucky lady opening gift after gift, receiving everything you ever wanted and more. But, what about the family and friends? Sure it’s exciting to watch someone open a blender, and an iron, and of course new sheets. But, sometime after opening the third set of dishes the excitement wears off and boredom tends to set in. Much like a bunch 5 year olds at their best friend’s birthday party, women are easily lead a strayed by one another. I guess this is why bridal shower games were invented.
Having attended 7 bridal showers in the last year, I’ve played my fair share of bridal bingo, bride trivia, and honeymoon ramblings. But one of the activities I find most entertaining is the advice that guests are asked to bestow to the bride to be. Here are my top five
5. Never let you husband use these four letter words: Dust, cook, and work.
4. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and plot revenge.
3. Don’t withhold sex. You’re only punishing yourself.
2. Don’t have three kids in two years
(Why didn’t anyone share this with me at my shower?)
(And my personal favorite from a mother of a bride)
1. Just remember when the going gets though that it was your father that gave you away,
I wanted to keep you.
Such words of wisdom. Offered by women who’ve been there and done that. And who better to offer such valuable advice, like number 4, than those seasoned brides, who have been there more than once! Like I said, put 50 women in a room together, and some of us are bound to revert to our inner child.
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Being of the the newly married brides, I must say my small and sassy bridal shower in New York with my bridesmaids was just what the doctor order as I was aflurry with wedding planning. I did not however, order the spanking which one had provided during the event, nor the multiple pitchers of margaritas placed in front of me (which I happily downed).
Nonetheless, my favorite moment was hearing of tales from my newly married friends during dinner...prized words of wisdom and a few of encouragement from those that had been there and done that.
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