Love Meter Calculator

Posts Tagged ‘wedding shower centerpieces’

A bridal shower brings together family and friends who collaboratively reflect on the bride’s past, present and hopeful future. With this in mind, bridal showers are planned as a way of expressing excitement, joy and hope for the soon-to-be-wedded bride. Decorations, and particularly bridal shower centerpieces, play an important role in creating this type of ambience. It comes as no surprise, then, that a bit of art and precision are required to create the appropriate type of bridal shower centerpieces for the big day.

Bridal shower centerpieces are the jewel of any bridal shower. They should reflect the true personality, interests and tastes of the bride and give the bridal shower the ambience that is required. It is therefore imperative to come up with bridal shower centerpieces that are dominant and attractive to make them memorable.

Ensuring that your bridal shower centerpieces revolve around the theme of the wedding and the bride may take time and a bit of creativity. It is important to have in mind, or possibly even on paper, exactly what your overall bridal shower centerpieces design will be. Once you have that, start thinking of colors for the centerpieces that will match the color theme of the wedding. So if the wedding has a pink and white theme, design the bridal shower centerpieces in a way that attractively incorporates those colors. Consider also whether the overall theme of the centerpieces should be traditional or contemporary, and keep the bridal shower centerpieces as feminine as possible.

The vase or flower bowl design, where vases or flower bowls form the foundation of the centerpieces is a popular and easy approach. The vases or bowls, which should hold the bride’s favorite flowers, can be decorated in many different ways. They can be painted or wrapped in ribbons based on the wedding theme and the bride’s favorite colors. The vases or bowls can be placed on tables, stands or other furniture to bring color and ambience to the bridal shower area.

You can also place scented candles placed in jars, jewelry, cake or chocolate around your flower bowl or vase designs. The centerpieces can even incorporate a “piece” of the bride, like her favorite t-shirt, doll or CD. You can also place small pieces of paper with short definitions of the bride like ‘smart’ and ‘ambitious’ among others around the centerpieces and later use those pieces to play games like bridal shower bingo.

There’s a lot more than tips on bridal shower centerpieces at BridalShowerMoments.com. Join Lindsay and our other writers for ideas on bridal shower planning, decorating, brunch, cake and more.