Throw a bridal shower or a bachelorette party for your girl friend with these creative bridal shower ideas!

Bridal Shower vs Bachelorette Party?

You can throw your friend one or the other, or both! But before you make that final decision, make sure you understand the difference between them.

A bridal shower's main idea is to shower the bride-to-be with gifts related to the shower theme. So anybody invited to a bridal shower is expected to come with a gift for the bride-to-be.

Somebody attending a bachelorette party, on the other hand, is usually not expected to bring any gift. Since the main idea of this party is to give the bride-to-be a good time, guests of bachelorette parties may be expected to pitch in a dollar or two for the bride's drinks, meal, shopping spree, or spa services.

Have no idea where to start? This bridal shower planning guide will be a great help for all first time party throwers. Experienced throwers need not read through this, since we bet you're already an expert, and just want to check out those amazing ideas we promised you.

We have lots of shower themes, from the typical Around the Clock theme, to Envelope, Luau, just to name a few. And here at Creative Bridal Shower Ideas, throwing a theme-based shower means your theme is seen from your invitation card down to your menu. So be sure to check our theme ideas out!

Speaking of invitations, you can opt to get our FREE bridal shower or bachelorette party invitations or create your own card by using these wedding cliparts.

That takes care of your party invitation, but there's still your bridal shower games to think about. No worries, you could get theme-based game ideas at our bridal shower theme page, or some general games at our printable bridal shower games or bachelorette party games page.

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