Dos and don’ts at the bachelorette party

Your best friends have been generous and caring enough to throw you a great bachelorette party, and it’s up to you to show how much their efforts are appreciated. Don’t assume that your friends just have to shower you, they don’t. It is very kind that you take the time and make the effort to thank your friends for their efforts.

A simple thank you note or a verbal thank you will not do to thank the person who threw you in the shower. Give her a gift to show your appreciation along with a handwritten thank you note.

Never do your own bachelorette party, it’s in bad taste. Showers are generally considered gift-receiving functions where the presentation of gifts is an important part of the process. Any occasion when gift-receiving is so highly valued should not be pushed by the person himself. Also, don’t ask your friends to shower you.

Asking for gifts is equally undesirable, but you can keep a record. Do not include the registration in the invitation itself. Write it on a separate sheet of paper and insert it into the envelope with the invitation.

Be sure to personally thank all the guests who attend.

Never invite people to the shower you do not intend to invite to the wedding. Looks like you’re inviting them for gifts, exceptionally tacky and quite rude. You may have a separate shower for colleagues and co-workers in your office. However, it is always better to invite people to the shower and to the wedding.

Bachelor and bachelorette party

Bachelorette parties are a great way for the bride and friends to get together and have one last affair before the wedding. Traditionally, the groom has his bachelor party and the bride has her shower or bachelorette party. A growing trend is the merger of both parties in a Jack and Jill Shower. These mixed parties will include the friends and friends of the bride, as well as the groom and all his friends. A Jack and Jill shower will have to be planned differently than showers or same-sex weddings; you will need to make sure there are enough activities to keep the boys and girls happy. Leave the obscene entertainment to go out at night with your friends; a mixed party is not the right place for this.