Bridal shower gift

[Disneyfan754321]

My future DD is having a bridal shower Sunday..
We gave the kids a few thousand dollars to to help with the wedding. We told them that this was a early wedding gift.
What do I get her for a gift? I cant go empty handed ... and If I buy cheap bowel set I will look cheap

 

[starry_solo]

Look on the registry. Isn't a bridal shower mainly supposed to be about lingerie, etc.?

 

[butterscotchcollins]

Look on the registry. Isn't a bridal shower mainly supposed to be about lingerie, etc.?

Um...no. More like blenders and china patterns. o.o

 

[starry_solo]

Um...no. More like blenders and china patterns. o.o

LOL, apparently not the bridal showers that I go to. Wedding showers, yes. Bridal ones, no

 

[JenBush]

Does she have a wedding registry? I’d look at that and get something less expensive from the list.

 

[JenBush]

LOL, apparently not the bridal showers that I go to. Wedding showers, yes. Bridal ones, no

I’ve never heard of a difference between a wedding shower and bridal shower. Where I’m from they’re interchangeable terms and people usually get kitchen stuff/house stuff. Now bachelorette parties are more wild.

 

[easyas123]

In my mind a wedding gift is different from a bridal/wedding shower gift...but that is just MY interpretation of it.
I'd get her a gift that your budget allows for and go and enjoy the shower! You could always just got with a Victoria Secret gift card!

 

[Searc]

LOL, apparently not the bridal showers that I go to. Wedding showers, yes. Bridal ones, no

They're the same thing.

 

[dvc at last !]

Get a Shower Gift from the registry. It is different from a Wedding Gift.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

LOL, apparently not the bridal showers that I go to.

Same here. Might be an age or regional thing. But a big portion of bridal showers I have gone to involve lingerie. Not so many blenders and dishes since most people already live on their own or together prior to marriage. And I don’t know anyone who has done a wedding registry.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I agree with most of the above posters. I would just get something off their registry. Or, possibly something sentimental like a framed photograph of the couple.

 

[starry_solo]

They're the same thing.

Not here they aren't. There are bridal showers, wedding showers (for the couple), and very rarely, a separate "shower" for the groom

 

[mmbrad02]

We call them "household showers" and "bridal showers" where I am from. Blenders verses lingerie.

I agree, look on the registry. My poor mom got invited to all three of my "household showers" and by the last one, which was just a couple weeks before my birthday, she said "I'll buy your bedding from your registry but that's your birthday present too". She got me a vaccuum for one, and I'm not sure about the third.

 

[tcufrog]

Look on the registry. Isn't a bridal shower mainly supposed to be about lingerie, etc.?

I once went to a lingerie shower and I was the only one who actually brought lingerie because the moms and grandmas were there, which I didn't know. Everyone else brought things like fancy robes and pjs. I felt very uncomfortable.

 

[Disneyfan754321]

Look on the registry. Isn't a bridal shower mainly supposed to be about lingerie, etc.?

Thats what I orginally thought.. but when i googled it it said wedding gift. .. she is kinda a big girl I certainly dont want to guess on sizes.

 

[mjkacmom]

Here bridal shower/wedding shower are exactly the same thing, most buy off of the registry, some give lingerie. Wedding gift is cash.

 

[Hikergirl]

Same as above, a bridal shower (never heard it referred to as wedding shower) gift is separate from a wedding gift, which is 99.9% of the time cash.
I'd get her(them) something off the registry or maybe something else like a new bedding set or a luggage set if they aren't on there.

 

[DreamIsaWish]

I had two... one with lingerie with my friends (and the game about breaking the bows being the number of kids), and one with my mom and aunts, etc., with household items. I don't think there was any distinction in the name of the party or the invitation, but two different audiences.

For the OP, you could give a card with something tucked inside. No one else needs to know what was in there. It could be just a note about the wedding money, but the audience would think it's a gift card, check, etc. I think it would be rude to announce "it's a check for $100" so when we open cards we just read them and move on and let the audience fill in the blanks.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Picnic basket.

 

[clh2]

While a gift from a registry would be awesome, since the shower is Sunday, may be a little late for that. So, I’m going to toss out a couple of other ideas. What about an Mpix gift card, so they can print out some wedding pictures? Or perhaps a nice frame to display a picture? What about a penzeys gift certificate, so they can get some nice spices?

both MPix and Penzeys have reasonable minimum purchases to get free shipping.