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My MIL is one of several hosting a bridal shower for a friend's daughter. My MIL is in charge of the decorations. The wedding will be beach-themed, i.e. sand, sea shells, silver-dollars.
My MIL needs some great ideas on how to decorate the main table at the shower. What can she use? Any home-made or bought decorations ideas? Certain flowers got better with beach-theme? Help me brainstorm, please. Any of you great wedding answerers have any awesome ideas? Thanks!
In USA; indoor bridal shower, far from the coast.
Answer
If you are serving cake, it can do double duty as a decoration as well.
Make a regular cake and while the tan icing is still fresh, sprinkle brown sugar on it and decorate with sea shell shaped chocolates. If someone is creative, the cake can be in the shape of a sand castle. The brown sugar and the shells will set a great beach theme. Or, have individual cup cakes made with the icing, brown sugar and a chocolate sea shell and a miniature sand shovel poking out of the top.
You can get fish netting at a craft store to arrange in the center of the tables and decorated with shells bought in bags at the dollar store. You can also find light house figurines, sun glasses and other beach related items at the dollar store to set in with the netting. Also check out the beach toys, too. Craft stores may have miniature Adirondack chairs to decorate. Burn coconut candles so it smells like suntan lotion.
Just walking through a party store, a fabric store, a craft store and the dollar store, will give you the inspiration to help begin decorating for this party.
Set up a beach chair and umbrella for a place for the bride to open her gifts.
If you are serving cake, it can do double duty as a decoration as well.
Make a regular cake and while the tan icing is still fresh, sprinkle brown sugar on it and decorate with sea shell shaped chocolates. If someone is creative, the cake can be in the shape of a sand castle. The brown sugar and the shells will set a great beach theme. Or, have individual cup cakes made with the icing, brown sugar and a chocolate sea shell and a miniature sand shovel poking out of the top.
You can get fish netting at a craft store to arrange in the center of the tables and decorated with shells bought in bags at the dollar store. You can also find light house figurines, sun glasses and other beach related items at the dollar store to set in with the netting. Also check out the beach toys, too. Craft stores may have miniature Adirondack chairs to decorate. Burn coconut candles so it smells like suntan lotion.
Just walking through a party store, a fabric store, a craft store and the dollar store, will give you the inspiration to help begin decorating for this party.
Set up a beach chair and umbrella for a place for the bride to open her gifts.
Help with decorations for my party?
hayley97
My friend and I are planning this party, which I'm not exactly sure of the theme. She's going kind of crazy because she's never planned a party before and is driving me insane, so I'm pretty stressed out right now... Anyways, we need things like paper lanterns, rugs, and torches. Kind of tropical, beachy theme I suppose. I really don't want it to look cheap and thrown together. Someone help me, please!
Answer
Beach themes are easy to do. You can call it "Surf's Up!" or "Fun in the Sun!"
Set out beach umbrellas in the yard...get lawn chairs....set out tiki torches....hang up a raffia hula skirt around the table area in the front to dress it up....use bamboo place mats.
Blow up a few beach balls and toss those around the yard (have a permanent marker so everyone can sign them later and give away as prizes)
Centerpiece can be pineapple, coconuts, bananas, mangoes grouped together
Get some kids sand pails from dollar store...fill with things like fun beach towel, sunglasses, sun lotion, "lifesaver" candies, sun visors, beachcomber's hat, etc.....tie helium balloons to the handle..place them around for decoration...but either have a "lucky draw" or give away as prizes.
Use Frisbees as holders for paper plates (guests get to keep them as gift)
Make decorations using old jars, fill with sand, stick in a tropical fake flower, some sea shells....or fill with sand and use to hold a tea light candle on top, throw some little shells in there so they show on the sides of the glass jar.
Make huge decoration flip-flops: these can be done from foam board or card stock...even old cardboard and then painted, or covered in striped material or funky fun fur. Make the thongs using ribbons and hot gluing them on...add whatever trims you like or leave plain--a flower at the toe? These can be hung up on a fence or a porch or in a party room....or they can be on a door, etc. (hot glue a hanging ribbon on the backs in 2 spots if paper is thin and needs support on each side.)
Make small fun "surf boards"...use foam board for these....adding contact paper to front works...just cut the foam in the shape of a surf board.
Serving snacks in baskets lined with a napkin is good too--find some driftwood if you can! place that around..make a grouping. Hang little lights up. Hang a life preserver up (or again...use foam board and make one)...to say Welcome. If you have an area to use fabric (get cheap from fabric store clearance section)...cut with pinking shears and hang striped fabric in doorway...or framing poles on a porch, etc. Use bright blue and white...or yellow...(just tape it up there ;)...or staple if you can.
Get a kiddies pool if you don't have one...fill with water and fill with balloons in the blue and yellow and white. (Can play a game later where everyone has to run to pool and sit on a balloon til it pops).
Play "pass the wet sponge"...2 teams each has a bucket of water and big sponge. On go..first person soaks sponge and passes it overhead to person behind and down the line. Last person runs up to another empty container which is 6 feet ahead of the full bucket and squeezes water into it. Then that person takes the first place in line and everyone moves back one. Team who accumulates the most water (say after 2 complete runs) wins....OR..you can mark a line on their "empty buckets" to see who reaches the line first!
Get some sea glass or colored glass stones from the dollar store that come in a netted bag....hot glue them to something sturdy (a heavy piece of slate would be ideal)...but a sturdy plate that won't be used again is ok...as long as it's unbreakable kind. Wash good and use it as a fun platter to serve appetizers on (a plate of deviled eggs?)....mini sandwiches on a bed of lettuce? Decorate sandwiches with some cherry tomatoes, olives, cheese cubes all in between.
Cut an orange in half, put it on a plate, use it to stick party picks of food in.....grapes and cherries (like maraschino cherries) or melon balls or more cheese cubes.
Put together a playlist of beach songs...check the web for best selection. (Beach Boys music a must..same goes for Jimmy Buffet). There's another song by Buster Poindexter "Hot Hot Hot" that'll get things lively.
Beach themes are easy to do. You can call it "Surf's Up!" or "Fun in the Sun!"
Set out beach umbrellas in the yard...get lawn chairs....set out tiki torches....hang up a raffia hula skirt around the table area in the front to dress it up....use bamboo place mats.
Blow up a few beach balls and toss those around the yard (have a permanent marker so everyone can sign them later and give away as prizes)
Centerpiece can be pineapple, coconuts, bananas, mangoes grouped together
Get some kids sand pails from dollar store...fill with things like fun beach towel, sunglasses, sun lotion, "lifesaver" candies, sun visors, beachcomber's hat, etc.....tie helium balloons to the handle..place them around for decoration...but either have a "lucky draw" or give away as prizes.
Use Frisbees as holders for paper plates (guests get to keep them as gift)
Make decorations using old jars, fill with sand, stick in a tropical fake flower, some sea shells....or fill with sand and use to hold a tea light candle on top, throw some little shells in there so they show on the sides of the glass jar.
Make huge decoration flip-flops: these can be done from foam board or card stock...even old cardboard and then painted, or covered in striped material or funky fun fur. Make the thongs using ribbons and hot gluing them on...add whatever trims you like or leave plain--a flower at the toe? These can be hung up on a fence or a porch or in a party room....or they can be on a door, etc. (hot glue a hanging ribbon on the backs in 2 spots if paper is thin and needs support on each side.)
Make small fun "surf boards"...use foam board for these....adding contact paper to front works...just cut the foam in the shape of a surf board.
Serving snacks in baskets lined with a napkin is good too--find some driftwood if you can! place that around..make a grouping. Hang little lights up. Hang a life preserver up (or again...use foam board and make one)...to say Welcome. If you have an area to use fabric (get cheap from fabric store clearance section)...cut with pinking shears and hang striped fabric in doorway...or framing poles on a porch, etc. Use bright blue and white...or yellow...(just tape it up there ;)...or staple if you can.
Get a kiddies pool if you don't have one...fill with water and fill with balloons in the blue and yellow and white. (Can play a game later where everyone has to run to pool and sit on a balloon til it pops).
Play "pass the wet sponge"...2 teams each has a bucket of water and big sponge. On go..first person soaks sponge and passes it overhead to person behind and down the line. Last person runs up to another empty container which is 6 feet ahead of the full bucket and squeezes water into it. Then that person takes the first place in line and everyone moves back one. Team who accumulates the most water (say after 2 complete runs) wins....OR..you can mark a line on their "empty buckets" to see who reaches the line first!
Get some sea glass or colored glass stones from the dollar store that come in a netted bag....hot glue them to something sturdy (a heavy piece of slate would be ideal)...but a sturdy plate that won't be used again is ok...as long as it's unbreakable kind. Wash good and use it as a fun platter to serve appetizers on (a plate of deviled eggs?)....mini sandwiches on a bed of lettuce? Decorate sandwiches with some cherry tomatoes, olives, cheese cubes all in between.
Cut an orange in half, put it on a plate, use it to stick party picks of food in.....grapes and cherries (like maraschino cherries) or melon balls or more cheese cubes.
Put together a playlist of beach songs...check the web for best selection. (Beach Boys music a must..same goes for Jimmy Buffet). There's another song by Buster Poindexter "Hot Hot Hot" that'll get things lively.
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