Oh NOW I Feel Like a Bride: My First Wedding Horror Story

[SueC]

I'm glad to hear you have a solution to the reception site problem!
Themed showers??? Is that a new trend? Aside from a lingerie shower for a bride-to-be and a couples shower, I haven't heard of that!

[Auspicious]

Yikes, I didn't mean to sound so ungrateful about my showers! I am grateful, and it is really nice of people to offer to do anything, but they keep suggesting things that really won't work.

Suggested themes have included a wine shower, a camping equipment shower, an "around the clock" shower, and an "around the house" shower.

I think the first two came from the idea that most couples our age are like "we've been living on our own for a long time, so we really already have everything we need." But I'm here to tell ya, even though we've been on our own for awhile our housewares are mostly a hodge-podge of stuff left over from college and stuff from the bottom of the bargain bin. The idea of having pillowcases that match each other and spoons that don't bend when you stick them in the peanut butter holds a certain appeal. We are jonesing for camping equipment, but realistically that's still a few years off.

In the second two, the guests are assigned either a time of the day or a room of the house and their gift is supposed to be appropriate to that time/room. I think that works out well if you have a large guest list, a large registry, and a large house, but for us all three of those things are tiny, so I don't think we should dictate what the guests should buy in any way. That was the hardest idea to squash, though.

Like I said, everything's been 90% great--I only complain here because . . . okay I have no good excuse for complaining.