BridalShowerFavors.com Launches 10 New Fairy Tale Wedding Favors

Perfect timing for the 2012 wedding season, Bridalshowerfavors.com launches 10 new Fairy tale wedding favors. (PRWeb February 07, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9116626.htm

Carolyn Hax: A hostess who would rather not host

Dear Carolyn: My brother and his wife are expecting a little boy this spring. We’re all very excited, and I’ve offered to host the baby shower. The problem is that the parents-to-be are putting all kinds of conditions on the shower. They want it to be co-ed, because my sister-in-law doesn’t want to have all the attention on her. They also don’t want to open gifts at the shower. Read full article ...

Joann Klimkiewicz: How I Went From Bridal Shower Critic To Guest Of Honor

The tissue-papered excess, the cooing over Crock-Pots and vacuum cleaner cozies, the theater of watching someone unwrap gifts they already know they're getting. It was all lost on me.

Shower gift charade is a farce

Dear Miss Manners: In the last few years, I have become aware of a new custom in bridal showers that seems troubling: The bride lives across the country, and is coming to town for a bridal shower (or baby shower) hosted by a good friend of her mother’s.

If You Want Me to RSVP, Then You Need to Actually Invite Me

I returned the RSVP card for a wedding earlier this week, and it made my think of this piece from the archives where I struggled with RSVPs for my sister-in-law’s bridal shower. Titled “RSVP A Cultural Construct?,” it examined the obligations that invitations carry. The following has been edited from its original posting for clarity and relevance, and presents a some new thoughts on the matter ...