Host a “focus group” party for your wedding cocktails and food
Our bar plan for the wedding is to serve beer, wine, white sangria, and a signature cocktail. I found this recipe and tried it last week. Unfortunately, it tasted exactly like cough syrup. Clearly we needed to do extensive experimentation. To avoid alcohol poisoning, we invited many friends over and had the best impromptu party ever!
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.
Write thank-you notes as you open your shower gifts
Tribesmaid Writeroffiction and her groom had a killer coed wedding shower with trivia games instead of traditional shower games, a blind beer-tasting competition, and they skipped opening gifts at the party. The secret sauce of waiting to open their gifts was that they were able to write their thank-you notes as they opened the gifts.
Should we still have a wedding shower if we’re an eloping military couple?
Since my fiance is in the Army, we are not able to include friends and family on our wedding day. Should we be able to have a bridal shower and bachelorette party as planned? Are we cheating our friends out of what’s due to them since they are giving us gifts? Is it unfair to invite people to a shower, and then not invite them to a wedding?