* Although this is unusual go to the stores or wherever the bride has registered and choose a gift from the list that you can afford.
It is in poor taste to have a bridal shower at the home of the bride's mother. The bride's aunts or friends host showers.
On some occasions there is a mixed bridal shower, but if that is not announced in the bridal shower then no, the groom should stay away from the bridal shower and only be there at the end of the bridal shower to pick up his bride to be after the shower is over.
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Whether you know the bride or not you should bring a gift to her bridal shower. You also have the right to not attend the wedding shower especially if you are not invited to the wedding.
Either a mother; mother-in-law; sister or good friend has a bridal shower and does not require a hostess gift. If the bride wishes to thank the hostess she could send a thank you note along with an arrangement of flowers.
Unless the bride/couple has specifically requested that there NOT be a bridal shower, they are always acceptable. Attention should be paid to holding the shower in a location and with a theme with which the bride will be comfortable.
Yes, it's absolutely proper for the groom's aunt (and/or the bride's aunt, also) to host a bridal shower. The main ones who shouldn't host bridal showers are the parents and grandparents of the bride and groom.
If the rest of the family has no objections then there is no reason the grandmother could not have a bridal shower for family members and letting the maid of honor have another bridal shower for the bride's friends.
The bride needs pots and pans to start the household. Frying pans are a good bridal shower gift.
When you sign the bridal shower card you could put 'Welcome to the family' and sign it 'Aunt_________.'
Bridal shower is mainly for the bride while the engagement party is mainly for both. Go with a Shower Dance, both sexes can attend :)
A bridal shower is, indeed, the same as a stagette - also known as a stag party for the bride. Bridal showers, though, have a less raunchy connotation compared to Stagette.