God-honoring bridal shower ideas
I was wondering if you would be willing to post on your blog and ask your readers to share any special bridal showers ideas that they might have that are unique and God honoring. My sister is getting married and we are looking for ideas for her bridal shower that will keep the focus on Christ, and we are having a hard time coming up with ideas, and would love to hear what others might have done.
Here are the few ideas we did think of:
-Writing a tribute/poem or blessing for my sister.
-Having prayer time for the bride and her future marriage.
-Reading Scriptures/poetry that encourages godly womanhood
-Having the older married women share some marriage advice
We just wanted to do something that would be a meaningful, Godly blessing instead of focusing only on fun games and gifts (not that there is anything wrong with these!). It is our desire that in everything we do, Christ would be lifted up and glorified. We want to be set apart from the world even by the way we celebrate joyful occasions!
Joyfully, Shannon
Shannon, thanks for a great question! I'd recommend that you check out this link which has some unique and creative ideas. We've also discussed this a small bit before on this post. However, there weren't a tremendous amount of ideas and I'm sure there are some other wonderful ideas these ladies here could share. I'll open up the floor for anyone who would like to chime in!
posted by Crystal Paine at 2:54 PM
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One thing our hostesses did for both my sister and I at each of our showers: They had us make a list with our future husbands of prayer requests. Then they printed the lists for the shower guests to take with them. It was neat to know that these ladies would be praying!
At my shower, I also loved that a few older, wiser women shared some encouragement about marriage with the group. These were women with long, wonderful marriages, so I knew they knew what they were talking about!:o)
Some of the ideas you have are really good...I got married 4 months ago, and some friends did some special things for me.
At my personal shower, the ladies and girls surrounded me and prayed for me, and that was SUCH a blessing and encouragement.
At my other shower, the lady hosting it had each married woman write "advice" on a colored 3 by 5 card which they made into a little booklet. I have enjoyed reading through that several times as many of the ladies wrote special scriptures and gave me some very good wisdom and advice.
At that shower, the host had also sent everyone several recipe cards that she had handmade, and they presented me with a cookbook...that was a blessing especially as many of the ladies wrote encouraging comments and menu ideas with the recipes. Also, it was one of the best presents because all the recipes were tried and true and I knew that they were going to be good!
I have an idea that might work for you . . bear with me while I explain! :-)
For my upcoming wedding reception, I plan on printing and framing prayers to the saint I was named for (St. Rose) the saint my fiance was named for (St. Anthony) and a prayer to the archangel Raphael (Angel of Happy Meetings) and putting them on a table in one of the ballroom lobbies with a few inexpensive votives. In another lobby, I'm printing and framing a traditional Lebanese blessing (my ethnicity) and an Italian blessing (his ethnicity.) I plan to find some pretty, discount frames (God willing!) and use an "elegant" font.
You could adapt this for the shower by writing and framing your own prayers to the Lord for specific things (bless the home the bride will keep, bless the meals she will create over the years to nourish her husband, asking the Lord to grant her many healthy children to be raised in His name, etc etc.) Then you could place the frames around the room and beautify them with a votive, and some scattered silk flowers/petals around(always on sale at any craft store.)
Of course, I think prayer should be said out loud at the shower as well, but I'm sure you're going to do that anyway! :-D
Good luck and have fun!
I had a lovely bridal shower with the theme "Showers of Blessings" organised by the ladies in my church. There was a devotional prepared by an older, married woman. There was also a time of prayer for my husband and I, and opportunity for people to share wisdom they had learned over their years of married life.
One idea we used for my wedding, but that would be fun for a shower, is to have a decorated box, paper and pens. Ask people to share marriage advice, stories, Bible verses, good wishes, poems and prayers for the new couple to read. Each day after they're married they can take one paper out, read it together, and be blessed by it. I have many special memories of the advice etc. that people shared with my husband and I.
Next Thursday is my tenth wedding anniversary. To celebrate I'm blogging my love story, as well as pictures of my wedding. I'm writing about the many ways my mother and I planned a big, old timey, beautiful wedding on a small budget.
The church that I'm now I member of gives Christ centered baby shower and bridal showers. They each begin with an older woman in the church giving a charge to the person. A charge to make God their priority, then their spouse, then children (if it's the baby shower). She reads scripture and poems which she has typed on paper for the guest of honor to keep. Then after this charge, they take 10 minutes or so for prayer. Anyone that wants to lift the bride-to-be or mom-to-be up in prayer can do so. This time of prayer is very uplifting and powerful. It is the focus of the shower. After this time we eat our dessert while gifts are being opened.
For a friend's shower, I had all the guests & female family members write letters to the bride with advise, favorite scriptures, etc. I then scrapbooked them and gave the scrapbook to the bride as a gift.
I think it would be neat with a bridal shower to have a group of ladies that are committed to sort of "disciple" the young wife or younger women as they go along in their married life. Setting up even as a "gift" to the bride- a couple of months worth of coming over to an older couples house for dinner and being able to discuss those things that come up when you are first married. Even setting up with some of the ladies a bible study of a book like The Excellent Wife or something like that.
Another thing I saw once was they handed out a sheet of questions to answer for the guests. This could include things like "What is the best way to clean a bathroom?" "What is your best tip for making a loaf of bread?"
Strategies for getting dinner on the table on time" "Getting the house to smell nice" etc. These are things they may not use at first, but later will look back and love them.
I went to a shower once and beforehand we were all asked to contribute a recipe, home hint, scripture or other piece of wisdom that had meant something to us as wives, mothers and friends. The cards were all the same size, laminated and put into a card-file box and gift wrapped for the bride-to-be. She has said that it was the best gift she recieved.
I've just read the comment by Jessica (after posting my own) very similar...
an idea for Jessica in NYC... after the wedding reception you could remove the prayers from the frames and make up a book. Even include it as part of a 'guest book' which guests can write in during the reception.
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