Bridal showers are, at their core, opportunities for you to socialize with a few people who mean a lot to you while celebrating, and ideally, preparing for the fact that you’re about to get married.
Because of that, any good idea for a bridal shower will usually include both an excuse to socialize and something about it that helps you get ready for your upcoming wedding and the married life that follows after it.
We’ve tried to follow that formula here and we hope these will give you the inspiration you need to throw a phenomenal bridal shower. 👰
1. Spa Day
This is an easy go-to idea for a bridal shower, especially if you just don’t want to think too much about it and you want to have someone else handle all the moving parts.
Spas and the professionals who work in them do it every day.
Their whole job is to help you relax, and a huge part of that is reducing the number of things you have to think or worry about while you’re there.
Life is hard, work days are long, and everyone needs a real day off once in a while.
A real day off. That means no planning, no reading contracts, and no whatever else you normally have to do every day to make your life go.
And what better time for such a thing than the time just before your wedding.
After all, it’s the time when you should ideally be the least distracted and the most contemplative.
2. Meditation Retreat
Similar to the last idea for a bridal shower on this list, a meditation retreat is great for many of the same reasons as a spa day, and they can often be done together if you schedule it right.
For some reason, though, most people forget that they can go on a group meditation retreat (or they have just never thought about it).
It’s definitely an option worth considering because, much like a spa day, it can give you the time and environment you need to decompress, free yourself from external distractions, and properly delve into your psyche.
That’s what makes it a terrific idea for a bridal shower: it helps you assess your priorities, discern why you want to get married in the first place, and get yourself into a healthy headspace for your wedding and upcoming married life.
3. Learn to Make All-Natural Soaps and Cosmetics
Do yourself a favor right now.
Go into your bathroom and just start looking at the ingredients listed on all of your cosmetics and toiletries.
How many of them can you pronounce or understand?
How many of them sound like they’d probably be restricted or outright banned in other parts of the world?
How many of them are probably not banned anywhere but really should be given how toxic they’re known to be?
How many of them sound like the sorts of chemicals you’d expect to find in a river in China downstream from a factory that makes electric car batteries?
Anyway, the point here is that a lot of your personal care and hygiene products might be doing you more harm than good.
It’s not for no reason that there’s so much talk online about how women are aging faster today than previous generations.
It’s largely because of elective cosmetic procedures and other lifestyle stuff that’s encouraged on social media, but it’s also because of the chemicals in cosmetics and other products.
Fortunately, you and your friends can do a lot to reduce those toxins in your own life by learning how to make your own all-natural cosmetics and hygiene products yourself.
Best of all, if you decide to have kids, you can pass that knowledge down to them as well.
4. Take a Healthy Cooking Class
Our next entry on this list is also in the spirit of improving your health and getting you better prepared for your upcoming married life as a wife and, if you choose, maybe even a mother.
And what could better prepare you for that than learning how to reduce the amount of toxins in your food and household and ensure that you and every member of your family are properly nourished?
It’s no secret that the United States is a disturbingly unhealthy country on average and that much of that can be traced directly to the artificial food-like substances that most people are eating and drinking multiple times every day.
On average, Americans live shorter and less physically vibrant lives than our counterparts in other parts of the world.
It’s not only about the number of your years but also the quality of life you experience during them.
And if you have kids, it is your responsibility as a parent to see that they begin their lives with a reasonably healthy diet and lifestyle.
A healthy cooking class is a fantastic way to prepare yourself for that so that you can get a jump on it before you get loaded up with too many responsibilities.
Pro Tip: The tools and equipment you use for cooking also make a difference.
5. High Tea (or Afternoon Tea)
For our last entry, let’s lighten things up with an old favorite idea for a bridal shower.
The United States is a former British colony, and we get a lot of our traditions and customs from the UK.
Some of them weren’t so great, like wearing clothes that were designed for the climate of England and Scotland while living in the humid subtropical climates of Georgia and Mississippi.
However, some of those traditions were great and it’s unfortunate that we don’t practice them as much anymore.
One of these great traditions that should really be brought back is that of Afternoon Tea and High Tea.
In a nutshell, Afternoon Tea is the custom of taking a break around 4pm during which snacks and tea are served.
Originally, this was meant to provide some nourishment and opportunity for socializing in the space between lunch and dinner.
The thing that makes High Tea different, of course, is the fact that it also includes heartier, hot dishes because it was meant to serve as a larger meal after coming home from work rather than a light snack like Afternoon Tea.
Good Luck!
Honestly, success in marriage has much more to do with the dynamic and values shared between you and your spouse than it does with luck.
But still, there’s no harm in wishing you good luck on top of that.
Remember to always keep in mind that the main event is not the bridal shower or even the wedding but your marriage itself.
The life you will go on to share with your spouse as a married couple after your wedding is the most important thing.
So, keep it in mind and look forward to all the joy, overcoming hard challenges together, and the bond that will grow between you over time through all of that. ♥️
