Wedding Favors provide couples with the means to dispose of their ‘indebtedness’ to the wedding participants who willingly underwent long rehearsals at the church, perhaps after traveling some distances from their homes. These participants include the bridal entourage, the best man, the relatives and intimate friends of the couple. These gifts are also meant to complement the excitement and happiness that should prevail especially during the festivities. A third purpose for distributing gifts is to let people keep some memorabilia of the occasion.

In order to fulfill the reasons for giving wedding favors, it has become a frequent practice to give away not just one, but two or three wedding favors. To heighten the congenial mood of the wedding party, food and candy keepsakes may be distributed to the guests.

Other wedding favors that serve as remembrances are the crystal figurines that have become a staple in most weddings. Additionally, the host may have individual photographs of the participants taken, autographed and framed to be given away as memorabilia. Even soaps, perfumes, compact mirrors and lighters are acceptable in many social circles. To give that personalized touch to the gifts, the names of the recipients may be embroidered or carved into them whenever possible.

Wedding preparations are usually activity packed events and the bride will find that she may intermingle with a good number of people. Unfortunately, the bride may end up having no time to interact with close family members and may end up loosing those precious moments that only a family can share prior to the wedding. That is why it comes highly recommended that the bride has bridal shower brunch with close family and friends before retreating to bustle of the wedding day preparations.

Bridal shower brunch is an excellent and inexpensive way of bonding with close family members and letting them chip in ideas and suggestions about the wedding. The brunch usually takes place between 10 a.m. and noon, 2-3 days before the wedding.

Step one in hosting a bridal shower brunch is finding a nice location, with just the like ambience. It may be a private section of a restaurant or banquet hall. But more often than not, the home of the bride or a close friend works just fine, as will any location with an elegant, calm surrounding. The decorating approach should match the color theme of the wedding, while reflecting the style, class and personality of the bride.

Bridal showers are taking place all the time, but typically only once in the life of a given bride. This makes them a great and important opportunity to get together with friends and family, relax, have fun, enjoy each other and forget all of life’s routine “worries” for an afternoon.

Fortunately, even though they occur only once in the bride’s life, the bridal showers you can attend and organize are limitless, depending only on the number of relatives and friends you have that are single and open to the possibility of marriage. Bridal showers are full of activities in addition to great dishes and crowning this rare occasion is the bridal shower cake. This is usually the highlight of the day and a centerpiece for the occasion.

In its role of symbolizing best wishes to the engaged couple, a bridal shower cake should be lively and creative in design while matching the theme colors of the bridal shower. You basically have two good options when it comes to planning your “perfect” bridal shower cake.