Bridal Shower Gift...?

[Anonymous]

I have been invited to my friends bridal shower, and it's the first one I have been to. I asked around on what type of gift to give, but I have no idea! I was told that you DON'T buy something off the registry, that it is something for the BRIDE. Soooo.....I should give.......???

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

What you heard is the complete opposite from what I've heard.

When in doubt: ask the bride to be.

[Anonymous]

I usually buy nice bath products, and for a good friend (who's the same size as I am) I bought nice satin PJs in her favorite color.

[Anonymous]

nice lingerie

[Anonymous]

OP Here.

I would ask her, but I *think* it is a surpise.

I thought about lingerie, but she is pregnant (not that pregnant people can't wear lingerie!!) and I am not sure of her size, or if she would want any.

[Anonymous]

i was pregnant when i had my bridal shower. get one of those flyaway kinds.
if you're not really close friends and feel weird about lingerie, then go with something more benign... like a bath soap set. or scrapbooking materials.

[Anonymous]

I think giving off of the registry is fine. That's what its there for and if they didn't want registry gifts, they wouldn't have registered. At least you know its something that she wants.

I'm assuming of course that you are refering to the bridal registry and not the baby registry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think giving off of the registry is fine. That's what its there for and if they didn't want registry gifts, they wouldn't have registered. At least you know its something that she wants.

I'm assuming of course that you are refering to the bridal registry and not the baby registry.

I was told the registry was for gifts at the wedding. It is something for the couple on the wedding day, not only for the bride on her bridal shower where we "shower her with attention". She already had a bacherlorette party party, so I think this is more of a lunch type deal?

I'm going to go out this weekend and find something "cute" for her, instead of lingere I might do PJ's, or something sentimental.

August is going to be a busy month.

[Anonymous]

The first shower I went to was when my friend getting married and I were were 22. I brought something really random and EVERYONE else there had bought something off the registry.

If the majority of guests will be grandmothers/aunts/friends of her mom--buy off the registry.

If the majority of the guests will be people your age, get some fun chocolate body paints

[Anonymous]

Unless I know the bride well enough to know what she'd love, I buy off the registry. You generally won't be the only one. have fun!

[Anonymous]

It is not to shower her with attention, it's shower her with gifts, and presumably the type she'll need in her married life - the stuff she registered for.

[Anonymous]

They created a registry for a reason. And that reason would be so that they could get those specific gifts! Those are the gifts they actually WANT and NEED!

[Anonymous]

Chocolate covered body paints are for the bachlorette party NOT the bridal shower. Have some class people! I can't imagine opening lingerie or sex toys in front of my grandmother.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone for the responses, but that is where I am confused! I was told that the wedding registry they created was just that, for the WEDDING gifts (to be given at the wedding,etc) and that this is a BRIDAL shower for the bride only, so I was left with an....okay....so....that means..... type of face. I asked a close friend of mine who is also going and she said oh I'm giving lingere and a gag gift! But someone else I spoke to is thinking more along the lines of a nice item that is bride related just for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate covered body paints are for the bachlorette party NOT the bridal shower. Have some class people! I can't imagine opening lingerie or sex toys in front of my grandmother.

Mine would have LOVED it.