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Parties & Showers

Wedding showers for couples, wedding shower games, engagement parties, bridal showers, bachelor and bachelorette party ideas, rehearsal dinners, hangover brunches… we’ve got ’em all! Check out these alternatives to traditional wedding parties.

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Throw this low-cost, super-fun, beer-lorette party

When I talked to my Maid of Honor about my bachelorette party, all I asked was to try to keep the cost down — as people would be traveling and not everybody has a ton of money — and that I could wear jeans. My Maid of Honor and other local bridesmaid absolutely rocked my bachelorette, or beer-lorette, as it was called.

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Ask for your wedding wine as engagement party or wedding shower gifts

For our engagement party, we said that if people wanted to bring gifts, they could bring a bottle of wine that we could pour at the wedding. I also think this could work really well for beer lovers by having everyone bring a six-pack of beer for the wedding.

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Say goodbye to your old name and welcome the new with a “name burning”

I decided I want to do a name burning. I don’t mean name burning as if I am taking things with my last name and burning them like a book burning. More like a camp fire — or in our case a lot of candles — and sit around and just chat about who I am. This will let me put the past behind me.

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Throw a Panty Party for your bachelorette bash

Over on Offbeat Home, Alissa wrote about her unconventional party idea that turned into an awesome annual “holiday”; for the ladies only. And we thought, hell, this sounds like this would make for a BAD ASS bachelorette party idea.