Creative Invitations

In the old days, throwing a bridal shower meant getting together with the girls and doing girly things, and bridal shower invitations were always pink and full of flowers. While you are certainly free to have the traditional bridal shower, today you can throw whatever bridal shower you want, and a creative bridal shower deserves creative bridal shower invitations.

There is a world of themes that can be assigned to a modern bridal shower. And since everything old is new again, why not go retro with a cocktail style bridal shower right out of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? Rumba music, martini glasses and tight cocktail dresses at the party can also be reflected on the invitation (well, maybe not the rumba music), along with cigarette holders and tiaras.

Or perhaps you'd like to go totally traditional and have a garden party bridal shower or a high tea, complete with finger sandwiches, clotted cream and doilies. In this case your invitations might well be flowery. Over-flowery in fact. Or maybe over the top formal.

Another party choice that is gaining popularity is the "around the clock" bridal shower, where the guests are assigned an hour of the day and instructed to bring a gift represented their appointed time. Since nobody likes to be "instructed," it's a good idea for these invitations to include poems that explain and entertain at the same time. Around the clock bridal shower invitations tend to be clock themed, some even including moving hour and minute hands on their faces.

For a change of pace, there's the Luau Bridal Shower, where you can wear grass skirts, sip tropical cocktails from coconuts and listen to Don Ho music. There are plenty of websites where you can find Luau themed invitations full of images of the South Seas, and there are also many websites where you can find out what the popular themes are for bridal showers.

But what if you want a bridal shower catering to your own unique interests? What if you want to take your favorite female friends to the spa for the day? Or on a camping trip? What if you'd like to spend your bridal shower bowling? Or what about a skydiving bridal shower? It's your wedding, and you can do what you want, but if you are the only one who wants to do it, you may find that there are no bridal shower invitations to suit your party.

No worries. Thanks to the Internet, designing your own creative bridal shower invitations is a piece of cake – and about as inexpensive as a piece of cake as well. Going on-line you will find dozens of websites competing for your business, each of which provide hundreds of images and fonts that you can mix and match to create your own custom bridal shower invitation. Many of these websites provide templates to make it easier, and they even allow you to use your own images, making your bridal shower invitation as personalized as the shower itself.