Lingerie Shower Theme

The lingerie shower is a fabulous way to shower the bride-to-be with personal, sexy gifts. Who wouldn’t enjoy opening up packages containing silk pajamas, sexy bra and panty sets and save-it-for-the-honeymoon negligees? These are little luxuries and that’s what a shower is all about…showering your friend with tokens of love and good wishes!

The intimate nature of lingerie itself lends this type of shower to being hosted by the bride’s good friends. It might be a good idea to invite the bride’s grandmother to the “Stock The Kitchen Shower” being hosted in a few weeks, and leave her off the invite list for this shower theme. In the end, everyone will be more comfortable!

Invitations

 

As mentioned above, a “Lingerie Shower” is just that – an opportunity to gift the bride with sexy and flirty lingerie. Set the tone of your shower right off the bat with the invitation. The invitation itself will immediately convey to the guests whether over-the-top sexy or even trashy gifts are in order… or if they will be purchasing gifts that the new bride might actually wear!

There are many very cute themed invitations for the Lingerie Shower theme. We really like the selection at PaperStyle.com . They have a great assortment of lingerie themed invitations, from cute to sexy, and classic invites that you can customize with an invitation saying or poem that sets the theme for the shower.

Some great poems or sayings to use on your Lingerie Shower bridal invitations are:

Julie will soon be a bride, all dressed in white,

Let’s help get her ready for the honeymoon night!

A Lingerie Shower honoring

Julie Stevens

Nighties and teddies, a little satin bra,

Are sure to make Michael say

Ooh la la!

Please join us for a lingerie shower honoring

Julie

Cotton pajamas are

Julie Steven’s

Night time attire

She needs a few things to help light the fire

A Lingerie Shower

Will start her off right

Let’s outfit her for the honeymoon night!

There’s been plenty

Of preparation

Before her wedding day

Now all she needs is a little lingerie!

Something sexy, something sweet

Something special to knock Michael off his feet

Ribbons, feathers, satin & lace

Any pretty thing for

Her Michael to chase!

The big event is on the way

Let’s help the bride prepare

For her big day

Instead of dishes, pots and gadgets galore

We’ll do lacey to racey to stock the lingerie drawer

An intimate shower in honor or

Julie Stevens

An important point to remember when hosting a lingerie shower, is to provide the bride’s sizes for bra, panties and other lingerie. It can be included on the invitation, or if the invitation’s design cannot accommodate this information, you can also include a smaller card with the sizing info. It could look something like this:

Sizes:

36C / 6 – 8

Medium

You might also consider hand-making the invitations. The theme of the shower kind of lends itself to this. You could cut out a simple bodice shape using nice white or ivory paper. Attach pretty lace or ribbon, or even glue on a few rhinestone embellishments. Hot glue guns will work best and be the least noticeable!

To set the theme for a lingerie shower that’s a bit more risqué, if you’re leaning more towards a bachelorette party-type shower, you can make an invitation in the shape of a black lace garter.

Setting The Mood

 

Absolutely! When you’re decorating for a lingerie shower, it’s a fantastic opportunity to go all out and give your home a sexy, flirty feminine vibe! You’ll want to have plenty of fresh flowers placed around the party area. There are many sources for to purchase bunches of affordable flowers. Some great places to buy armfuls for pre-made bouquets are Sam’s Club, Costco or Trader Joes. These stores always have huge bouquets of beautiful flowers that aren’t budget-breakers, so even though you’re decorating your entire house with fresh flowers, it’s not eating up a lot of the party budget. Another spot for flowers is your own backyard! And if you don’t have a garden, ask around the neighborhood or check with your family. Pick whatever’s blooming and it will look and smell amazing. You might also check out your local farmer’s market for fresh blooms.

Purchase some scented candles to lend a nice soothing, sexy feel to the day. Nothing too overpowering… save the apple pie scent for fall! Choose something slightly floral or with a light vanilla flavor. Set the mood with a custom playlist of cocktail party music, we suggest something that’s smooth and sexy, like Michael Buble.

Refreshments

 

As far as what time of day to have the actual event, a lingerie shower seems to go over best in the evening. You can really vamp up the mood with lighting (or lack thereof) and candles. Also, this is where the drinks come in…you MUST have champagne to toast the bride-to-be and her girlfriends! It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have some sparkling white grape juice on hand in case someone doesn’t drink or is pregnant.

You could do champagne as your drink for the night…or you could mix up a signature cocktail, one that is especially loved by the bride. Either way, go for sexy and sophisticated!

We like having a signature drink, plus some prepared cocktails that you can prepare in advance and serve either in a punch bowl or use pitchers, so guests can help themselves. One of our favorites is a Basil Strawberry Lemonade with Vodka , featured on DrinkInventor.com .

And what to nibble on with the cocktails? Try this:

• Purchase 12-15 long-stemmed strawberries, green caps intact

• Slowly melt a bag of chocolate chips (I like dark, but you can use dark, milk and white to have a variety!) in the microwave, stirring after every 45 seconds

• Dip each strawberry into melted chocolate, about halfway up; twirl to shake off excess chocolate and let cool on wax paper. How easy is that? And it’s much cheaper than purchasing them from a specialty store!

You’ll want to have some other food on hand to go with the chocolate-covered strawberries. Girlfriends, especially those with lingerie, swimming suits or jeans on the mind, like to nibble. As a hostess, nibbling is your friend. Look through your favorite cookbooks or online for your favorite appetizer and hors d’oeuvres recipes. Now’s the time to get a little more creative than the usual chips and dip! Choose a few hot items to prepare, and a few cold items. Plan on 2 pieces each, per person. For a simple but totally awesome recipe, try some yummy tomato tarts. Ahh, summer! Girls always like a nice selection of cheeses, paired with assorted crackers and fruit. Just think bite-size!!

Party Favors

 

After all of that eating, drinking, laughing, lingerie-opening, drinking and laughing, it’s time to gift each guest with her own special favor. A darling, theme-appropriate idea is a sachet—for each girl to place in her own lingerie drawer! I checked a few places online and found some cute ones that you might want to try. The best part about these? You can make them yourself, which will keep your costs down, and they aren’t difficult to make! Yes, you heard right…they are on Martha Stewart’s site  and they are really easy to make. Send the girlfriends out the door with their lovely sachets…take off your shoes, prop your feet off and enjoy the left-over strawberries!

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