Wedding Fun Wednesdays – 50’s Bridal Shower Part 1 – Paper Goods

Me on the left, my amazing MOH and best friend on the right! Polka dot city!!

I may have mentioned this before, but I’m not a huge fan of surprises…I am what you might call an “over-planner”.  Excel is my best friend and I make lists for EVERYTHING.  So when I got engaged and the conversations rolled around to planning my bridal shower, I made it clear that I already had ideas and was intent on being involved.

So when years ago I saw this post on Hostess With The Mostess Blog  I saved the link in my trusty excel (Ew, remember when before there was Pinterest you had to do stuff like that?? I try not to think about those dark days.). Fast forward to a few months ago and I shared my idea with my mother, maid of honor, and other bridesmaids.  They liked the idea so we moved forward.

The easiest way to introduce the tone of a themed shower is obviously through the invitations.  There are so many great invitations on Etsy that I had a hard time choosing one, but in the end, we went with these invites from this seller:

These recipe cards and Thank You cards from this seller:

And this message (so there was no doubt about our intentions!) that I just made in Word and printed from home:

How cute, right? 

I brought in more color and polka dots by making these little seating cards with some card stock and a Word document with another Anne Taintor picture:

The “T” and “K” I got on clearance at Urban Outfitters I used some beautiful floral paper with white frames for the table numbers. I simply printed my table numbers in font size 450 (!) and carefully cut out the black numbers, and used a glue stick to stick them onto the patterned paper. Popped it in a frame and voila!

A special thanks to my bridesmaid Eilis for playing photographer for the day and capturing all of these pictures for me!

Next up…favors, attire, games and decor!