{Weddings} Creative Wedding Shower Ideas – Couple's Shower Doesn't Have to Make Your Fiance Cringe

More and more the trend is leaning towards including your fiance in your wedding shower. Wedding showers have been centered around all sorts of themes to include both couple’s tastes. Choose activities that encourage interactions between your guests to make it interesting for both male and female guests. And this doesn’t mean playing silly games if that isn’t your cup of tea.

No, there are more creative ways to throw a wedding shower. Here are some quick examples:

• If you have a good sized kitchen, why not throw a cooking shower party? Ask everyone to purchase gifts that can be used in the kitchen.  Perhaps center it around a fun food like pizza where everyone can get involved with creating the dough for their own pizza.  Have everyone choose from a variety of toppings, or even ask everyone to bring something from their own fridge as an unusual topping.  
• If you’re hosting the shower, but don’t want it at your home or don’t want to cook, you can look for  places around that teach cooking classes or some that show you how to make pre-made dinners. Hire them to come to your home or go to where they teach for the evening, to lead the guests through a few dishes and cooking techniques accompanied by appetizers you have made ahead of time. Follow with the dinner you and your guests have made. So it won’t be too long of an evening or overwhelming, buy the dessert and have your guests eat while opening your gifts.  Yum-m so much fun!
• A wine and cheese party is another fun idea. Hire someone from a wine bar that can educate your guests on the way wine and food interact. A great activity is to do a blind taste testing of wines, lining the wines up with paper bags on them for a light hearted party. Have your guests taste and guess the type of wine, the nose & color, price range and assign points to each category they get right.  The person that gets the most right, gets a bottle of wine as a gift.
• Perhaps the couple is outdoorsy or sports-minded.  If you live in an area with good weather, you could plan a fun shower outside with a pick-up game of softball, soccer, or volleyball along with a bbq. 
• Or, how about a mini-hike?  Invite the guests to wear comfortable shoes and clothes, and to show up at the beginning of an easy but beautiful hiking trail.  At the end of the trail, have a table set-up with food and drink.  Just remember to follow park regulations and have a plan to clean up after yourself.  At the end of the shower, you could even send the guests home with a nice favor of foot cream or bath salts.

Remember, games are not what make a party fun and in fact, most people cringe at the thought of them.  If you set the stage for friends and family to simply enjoy chatting with each other, everything will run smoothly.  Provide food that is appropriate for the time of day you’re throwing the shower and be sure to provide at least one alcoholic beverage and one non-alcoholic beverage. 

These are just a few ideas, let your creative juices flow and I am sure you can come up with the perfect couples’ shower to fit the couple’s personalities.