Abean Assist's

Practical Guide to

Event Planning

Bridal Shower Theme Ideas

Here are a few theme ideas in no particular order to get your mind flowing! Use these ideas as a starting point and come up with activities that accomplish your goal. Please don't find yourself limited by these ideas! Choose something the bride-to-be loves ... a hobby, a movie, a favorite book. I put together a Pinterest board with helpful links.

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Sports Theme

Your shower invitations and place cards look like game tickets.
Decorate in the colors of the bride’s hometown or favorite team. Balloons and crepe streamers in the home team's colors can be used to decorate the room. You can hang the names, jerseys and posters of local teams on the walls, place Nerf balls on all of the tables and buy sports candies of all sorts of shapes to spread across the tables as well.
Make a cake in the shape of the sport's ball (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc.) or in the shape of a bat, hockey stick, etc.

Taco 'Bout Love

Decorate for a southwestern fiesta.
Hang a Piñata and hold a Salsa dance-off.
Serve tacos.

Scooped Up

Hold an Ice cream social with an ice cream sundae bar.
An ice cream blindfolded taste test is fun.
Decorate in a pastel color scheme or go for an old fashioned Ice cream Shoppe font and décor.

Pajama Party

Decorate with stuffed animals and slumber party decorations.
Serve popcorn and candy in fun snack bowls.

Love is in Bloom / Spring into Love

Floral themed decorations with birds and spring colors.
Make flower crowns or do flower pressing.
Serve spring garden-party foods.

Lemonade

Citrus inspired decorations focused on the zest and fun of their love story.
Lemon bars, lemonade and other lemon treats - lots of possibilities.

Passing of Her Single Life

Share a 'eulogy' to the person she used to be.
Decorate like a funeral or go with gothic/black decorations.

Let Love Grow

Serve fresh fruits and vegetables and salads.
Garden/flower decorations with lanterns with fairy lights.
Natural wood elements

Bride to Bee

Honeybee decorations, honeycomb, yellow and black
Serve honey-glazed pastries and lemon-honey tea.

Adventure Awaits (Traveling)

Play a Travel Trivia game - pictures of the bride and groom in a variety of places, the winner is the one who knows the most locations (these can totally be digitally edited if necessary).
Serve International foods.
Decorate in blue and green with maps, globes, and luggage. Or use travel-inspired décor from a specific location.