Bright Wedding Shower Ideas to Ponder

Wedding showers, usually planned by either the matron of honor, family members and/or close friends, are now popularly associated to a kinky and naughty sex-themed bash (No thanks to bad, tasteless movies and television shows for giving wedding showers a bad reputation).

But did you know that wedding showers should be a clean and fun gift-giving occasion which should come not sometime after the engagement party but before the wedding day?

This wedding bash, they said, originated in the Netherlands. Whether true-to-life or fiction, they said that there was this story of a young woman whose love for a poor miller was disapproved by her father. And when her father attempted to sabotage her planned marriage by refusing to hand over his daughter's dowry, the village, who took pity on the couple, came to the two lovers' rescue by "showering" them with gifts.

Romantic isn't it? From then on, this once-upon all-women tea parties have evolved in myriad ways. The grooms are now getting their feet wet with a pre-wedding shower bash too.

The bride and groom's attendants, co-workers and friends do the hosting job. Usually, everybody who's invited to the shower should also be invited to the wedding. Why? It will be doubly hurtful for the shower guest who doesn't get a wedding invite as he or she may feel snubbed.

Anywhere, a wedding bash can be thrown: a favorite restaurant, spas, outdoors at the park or in the host or hostesses' home.

Explore some bright and favorite bridal shower themes that over the years have bring fun, excitement and fond memories both to the hostess and the guests:

Stock the Bar Shower. Everyone who is invited to the bridal shower is assigned a different kind of liquor such as vodka, brandy or tequila. Sometimes, the guests may be assigned to bring the appropriate glasses to serve them in. For additional fun, guests are also suggested to bring bar ware like corkscrews, funky coasters and pica-pica servers.