"Shower" for Kallah

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I'm making a gift shower for a Kallah soon.

I would love to get some ideas, about the party itself, also: invitations, entertainment, food, etc...

I was thinking of asking people (her friends and family members) to write down a favorite recipe on an index card, and then to get her a gift which has to do with the recipe.
(for example: Pancake recipe -> Frying pan).

I'll get her a nice Recipe-Box to store all her new recipes in.

Also, sometimes people chose a theme, like: Cupcakes, and then with that they get her: a cookbook about Cupcakes, a muffin tin, liners etc..
and wrap it all up really nicely.

Did you have a shower? what was it like?
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Posted: Tue, Jan 13 2009, 3:57 am Post subject: re: "Shower" for Kallah

I had a shower and attended sevral. My shower was "rooms" shower. Each guest got a room in the house and had to bring a gift that had something to do with that room (be creative when distributing a room, I had mirpesset - porch and got a small charcoal grill), you can have more than one guest assigned to a room.
I've been to a time of day shower where every guest was assigned a time of day and had to give a gift accordingly. I hosted a recipe shower where guests brought a gift used in their recipe. I've also been to showers where you had to bring a gift starting with your first inital, I've been to more but can't think of themes offhand.
Refreshments, are always very girly, always milchigs, sometimes a light supper, sometimes it was just light refreshments.
There are also alwyas silly girly games, like calling the chatan and asking him questions and having the kallah guess the answers. I remember one cute shower where we had to write out as many words from the combination of the chatan and kalla's first names, you weren't allowed to mention the words wedding or the name of the chatan (maybe another word) the entire evening.
When I was hosting a shower I got a lot of ideas on line, there are tons of sites with great ideas you can adapt to a frum shower. Just google bridal shower.
Mazal Tov, have fun.
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Posted: Tue, Jan 13 2009, 10:48 am Post subject: re: "Shower" for Kallah

I have both hosted and been to many cute showers. Some of the cuter things I've seen:

My friend made a monopoly type game with my and dh's pics as the cards and the moving pieces and then whatever you landed on you had to do or answer. It was very cute and my dh wants to keep it for our kids.

Another shower I've been to where they played a version of bridal bingo. They printed out from online bridal bingo boards but instead of just calling out the words, we had to guess, like taboo. For instance the word was dress, the person leading the game would say white, petticoat etc... and when everyone or one person guessed, she confirmed it and everyone who had it crossed it out, it wasn't competetive the guessing, you didn't gain anymore out of it but it was so much more fun.

Food: Make people bring their own. Assign one-two dishes per person like two-three salads, eggplant parm, ziti, quiche, bagels, tuna, cheese etc.. Also nosh like cookies, pretzels, the like.

As for the gifts, each shower was different but I firmly in believe in ask the kallah. Some wanted kitchen products because they couldn't buy it themselves. Some wanted a specific gift like stereo or bosch. Some, like me, wanted the money. We put it towards our couch. The problem with doing cutesy and not asking her is that she may left with a lot of things that she doesn't want and/or can't use.

Posted: Tue, Jan 13 2009, 10:50 am Post subject: re: "Shower" for Kallah

Btw, if I may say, you are full of good deeds. First the supper for kimpeturin, now a shower. May you continue to have many simchos to celebrate and help for.

Edited to correct spelling mistake.

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Most of the showers I've been to started with some type of game, or a quiz where the bride has to answer questions about her fiance, then about herself, and they see how well she's knows her fiance and vice versa.

There's also bridal bingo where guests receive blank bingo cards and then fill out the spaces with gifts they think the bride will receive at the shower, and as she unwraps the gifts, you mark off the gifts that match up on your bingo card. If you get bingo, you get a little prize.

I don't really enjoy showers that have too many games, they're usually kind of boring and stupid (and sometimes uncomfortable). I like it when we eat, watch the bride unwrap the gifts, and then socialize and eat some more.

Posted: Tue, Jan 13 2009, 5:01 pm Post subject: re: "Shower" for Kallah

My friends made me a Mad-Libs game. They wrote a basic story (minus most verbs, names, nouns, etc.) about--"Once upon a time there was a girl who was looking to get married..." A basic story about myself and my chosson....
There were a few copies--people paired up and filled them in and then I had to read all of them out loud.
It was really fun!
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Maybe this is not done in your circle but I registered for the gifts I wanted (at Bed Bath and Beyond), and all my friends had registries for their bridal showers. That way you get what you actually want/ need, and not things that conform to the giver's tatse. I know even some of the frum housewares stores have registries.

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I went to a shower once for a (MO) kallah who insisted that she was getting enough gifts for HER (I.e, kitchen stuff, etc) and she wanted something nice for her future dh who was very into technology. So they threw her a mixed "electric shower" (for both of them)

Basically they told people to get her presents or gift certificates from circuit city, best buy, sound advice, etc. They decorated the room with those lights on a string that they use to decorate trees around the holidays, and I can't remember what else they did.

But it was such a cute idea...