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Fun and Original Ideas for Your Bachelorette Party
Getting married is a once-in-a-lifetime event, or at least it is supposed to be. You will only have one bachelorette party, and you want to make it a good one. A great bachelorette party will take place in a location where none of the attendees have ever been before. It will also have fun party favors and great food and drinks.
Pick Out the Perfect Location
Destination bachelorette parties are all the rage nowadays. The members of the wedding will all take a weekend to bond and enjoy cocktails. Nashville, Las Vegas, and Miami are all very popular destinations for bachelorette gatherings.
Valentine Bar in Nashville, for example, is a well-known venue in which to have bachelorette parties. It has a glamorous rooftop bar with two levels. There is often live music there. Commonwealth in downtown Las Vegas is also a very popular place to go. It has an elegant atmosphere and some very strong drinks. If you are in Miami, the best place to go is The Dirty Rabbit. It has some imaginative cocktails and features a live Latin band most nights.
Plan your Activities
When you have a bachelorette party, your guests will expect some kind of entertainment. You can always rent a pedal bar or party bus. If you are having your bachelorette party at home, you can play traditional games such as truth or dare or play a wedding-centric version of Balderdash. If you are going out to a bar, have a scavenger hunt for small items that bar patrons may have in their pockets.
You can also challenge your guests to a trivia game that is all about you and your spouse-to-be. Whoever knows the most about the two of you can win a prize. Board games such as Hot Seat and Bad Decisions are also popular at bachelorette parties.
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Get Original Prizes and Souvenirs
No one is supposed to go home from a bachelorette party empty-handed. You can create bags with party favors such as scented candles, perfume samplers, and chocolates, or you can give them something truly original.
Custom-made t-shirts are one of the best bachelorette party souvenirs. Almost everyone wears t-shirts every once in a while, whether it is to work, to exercise, or just to sleep in. There are web-based on-demand printing companies that will allow you to create a custom t-shirt.
Put a picture of you and your betrothed on the shirt or use a picture of all the girls in your wedding party. If you and your crew have a motto, you can use that as well. The best thing about using an on-demand printer is that you can make as many or as few of any given product as you need.
The very best t-shirt companies will have many different colors and styles of shirts to choose from. They will even offer the option of embroidered shirts. An embroidered shirt will show your friends that you are not cheap.
Personalized mugs and shot glasses are also a great idea for bachelorette party favors. Put each girl’s name on individual glasses or put your name and the date of the wedding on the glass. You can get the glasses or mugs from an on-demand company as well.
Creative Cocktails
A bachelorette party should be a last fling, and any good last fling requires alcohol. You can stick to standard cocktails, or you can try something a little more unusual. Did you and your fiancé drink on your first date? If you had cocktails, you could always serve the kind you drank. If you toasted your engagement with a certain kind of wine on the night your fiancé proposed, serve that to your bachelorette guests.
Creative cocktails is a good idea. Photo by Ann Danilina on Unsplash.com
If you just want to spend the evening spilling secrets, think of the very strongest concoction you can and pour it into giant glasses. You can blend everyone’s favorite liquors or combine shots that represent something about both you and your fiancé. For example, if you are from the south and your fiancé is from the north, make boilermakers with Southern Comfort and Old North beer. If the girls at your party love the drink, you can always put the recipe online or sell it to a local bar.
A bachelor or bachelorette party should be something that everyone who attends will talk about for years to come. If you plan well in advance and come up with some original ideas, your party should be one that will go down in history.
