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wedding shower

Unique and creative wedding shower ideas and games to save you from those boring same old wedding shower activities… tons of ideas for your couple’s showers, too!

Wedding shower game free printable: wedding tradition origins as seen on @offbeatbride #shower #games

Co-ed printable wedding shower game: can you guess these wedding traditions?

We love us some wedding shower games, and we got a great one from a reader recently that asks party guests to guess the origins of some popular wedding traditions. I then whipped up a printable version of the wedding traditions wedding shower game for everyone to print and use at your parties. Here’s the original suggestion and of course, the printable game sheet + answer key.

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Fights about weddings will happen, here’s how to work your politics into the compromise

I wish I read this post about consensual bridal showers when I first got engaged. I wouldn’t have felt so “wrong” when I came across the same scenario… I tried to be polite. I tried to kindly turn it down. That didn’t work. Then things got ugly. This is when I had a big realization… These fights about weddings will exist no matter how hard I try. But there are ways to work your politics into the compromise.

wedding shower for couples movie quote game on offbeat bride

Wedding shower for couples: play this movie-matching shower game!

Sometimes wedding shower games can tend toward the cloying and even downright embarrassing. So we have a great movie quotes wedding shower game for you, created by an Offbeat Bride reader!

austenland themed bridal shower

“Colin Firth in a wet shirt” has nothing on this gorgeous, surprise Austenland-themed bridal shower

When Michelle asked me to be her Maid of Honor, I knew that the one thing I had to do was throw her a surprise Austenland-themed bridal shower — re-creating an outdoor tea party like the one depicted in the movie, complete with its mashup of vintage and modern contraptions. For all of us geeks who romanticize period films, here how you can throw your own Austenland bridal shower…