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| City Chick |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 03:56:21 AM
My little sister is getting married in May. I'm attempting to plan my first shower.  We're having it in my church basement. I found an inexpensive caterer.
I'm stumped on table & room decorations. Games? She wants a retro-housewife theme.
Trying to do this as inexpensive as possible. I'd appreciate any help/ideas you can give me!
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| star-schipp |
Posted - Jan 19 2011 : 05:10:45 AM
There is always the clothespin thing where everyone starts with one clothspin that is usually clipped to their blouse (or apron!). Anyone caught saying a "secret" word - like bride or wedding whatever is decided ahead of time - loses their pin and the person who caught them gets it. The person with the most clothespins at the end of the party wins a prize. (Once, one of my sons collected 15 pins at a baby shower LOL)
We can do no great things; only small things with great love - Mother Teresa
Star - farmgirl sister #1927
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 1:48:24 PM
Very cute idea, Denise. Much like the "pass the tray" game or "what's in my purse?" game, but better!!!
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 1:42:57 PM
At my dd's shower we played a game wear the bride to be put on a full apron and on it we had attached several different kitchen utensils or things that were small. She modeled it then left the room the guests had to write down all they could remember and they winner got to choose a utensil as a prize. the bride to be kept the rest and the cute apron!
farmgirl sister#43
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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| CindyLous |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 11:07:03 AM
Love the recipe idea. I have been to showers that when you bring a recipe you also bring some of the ingredients. Which then helps stock the new kitchen. The note cards with ideas on how to be a 50's housewife would be really cute table decorations also. You could even frame some to the best or funniest to set on the table and those could be given as prizes or to the bride. Gee I wonder what June Cleaver would do or better yet what about Lucy and Ethel. |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 8:16:42 PM
A game I've played more than once at a bridal shower and had a lot of fun doing it is....divide the guests up into groups of three or four. Give each group two rolls of toilet paper. Without using any tape or anything, each group designs and makes a wedding dress using only the toilet paper. You "build" the dress on one of the team members. Afterward, everyone votes on the prettiest one...
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| Jessi Lynn |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 4:52:09 PM
I like Natesgirl idea of the aprons-Mary Janes Outpost had a picture on pg 90 with a table skirt made of tied aprons, cute! And woolgirl's recipe album idea-it's nice to have some tried and true recipe ideas.
On www.ehow.com there's tips on "How to be a '50's housewife" and www.funfacts.com.au had similar ones "Home Economics for Women in the 1950's". You could make note cards or post cards with the tips on the front and put them on the tables and leave pens out for well wishes or what ever the guests want to write.
How 'bout a housewife relay? Looked it up and one suggetion was to see which four-member team could vacuum up crumbs, fold a pile of laundry, crack and beat an egg and diaper a teddy bear.
Along with the aprons you could have props for guests to wear for pics.
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 1:36:00 PM
I've found a few old homemaking books at thrift stores - those are fun to look through for ideas for the retro-housewife deal. I just posted on Melody's thread about graduation party ideas - I did the same thing as Jonni for a rehearsal dinner last year with vintage tablecloths, mason jars for flowers and galvanized tin washtubs for drinks.
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| woolgirl |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 10:13:01 AM
Maybe you could get your hands on some old appliances or kitchen gadgets for centerpieces! Like an old mixer or something like that.
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 09:06:17 AM
Gosh, what a cute themed shower! I like the idea that everyone should wear aprons--bring some extra for the gals who don't have any.
How about vintage table cloths--the brightly colored ones? Have any or know someone who does? For my husband's 30th birthday, we had it in an Edwardian Band Shell at his family's summer cottage camp. I hung pretty colored paper lanterns and played 1940's style music. I used all my vintage tablecloths, and even if they weren't the size of the table, I found a way to lay them out to wear a portion of it was covered; stocked up on milk glass vases from the thrift and filled those with happy Zinnia's and placed them in the center of each table. I had galvinized wash buckets filled with ice that held bottled sodas in a variety of flavors.
If it's a retro housewife theme, why not have everyone bring an "Old Wives Tale" regarding the kitchen--something their mothers or grandmothers told them about baking, cooking, etc...like, "sweeping the floor after dark is bad luck" or "leaving milk out in a thunderstorm will cause it to curdle"...there are SO many! Those are just a few of my Great Grandmother's wisdoms :)
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| natesgirl |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 06:51:09 AM
Tell everyone to wear an apron and if you know anyone with extras use them to decorate with! You could print off diagrams of the proper way to set a table, or tie a tie, or anything like that you can think of. They would look cute hangin from a clothes line with wooden clothes pins!
My sister had us play a game at my cousins wedding shower that was really fun. Everyone was told on the invitations to bring their favorite nightgowns in a gift bag with nothing on it that would tell anyone who it belonged to. My sister took the bags as we came in the door and stashed them in a closet. Then, when the game began, she would grab a bag from the closet, the bride-to-be would hold up the nighty and everyone would write down on a piece of paper who they thought it belonged to. Then she would line the bags up in order on the floor behind her. After they were all held up, she went back through the bags in order and held them up agian. The owner would then claim the gown. Whoever knew the most gowns wins!
Farmgirl Sister #1438
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| woolgirl |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 05:30:40 AM
Something really nice we did for my sister was a recipe album. Everybody who came brought a recipe card with their favorite recipe, then we put them in a big scrapbook and they could write in it. It was a nice keepsake for her and I think that would go with your theme really well!
Farmgirl #1947 |
