Bachelorette Party with her friends

Your dearest friend is about to get married, and throwing her a bachelorette party is the best way to bid her singledom adieu. Celebrate your friend’s last days as a single woman with all your awesome girl friends with a swinging bachelorette party.

Common Bachelorette Party Questions

If you’re hosting or throwing a bachelorette party for the first time, it’s not uncommon that you have a few questions in mind. Bachelorette parties have been around for a while, and there are some niceties and even etiquette involved when it comes to planning and execution. Here are some questions you may have in mind:

• Who throws the party? A bachelorette party is usually thrown by a female member of the bridal party, but not by the bride. It can be the maid of honor or one of the bridesmaids. However, it’s not a fixed rule, and any female friend or member of the family of the bride can throw this party for her.

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• Who will attend? The party is usually a girls-only affair, but again, there aren’t any set rules anymore. However, if you want to throw a party that will involve both the male friends and family of the bride, it’s probably better to throw an engagement party instead.
• Who pays for the party? A bachelorette party is typically funded by contributions by the bridesmaids and the bride’s female friends.
• When and what time should the party take place? Again, there’s no set rules when it comes to what time the party will be held. Traditionally, it’s held during the evening, because a bachelorette party stems its roots from formal dinners thrown in the bride’s honor. The party is also usually held a few weeks to a few days before the wedding.
• What does the bride do? Again, the bride traditionally does not help organize the party thrown in her honor. The most the bride should be doing in bachelorette parties is as a consultant on party ideas and activities.

Generally, these so-called rules are not fixed, but it’s nice to have some guidelines when it comes to bachelorette parties, even if just to help you go along through the whole process of planning and execution. (Tips on how to host a party)

Bachelorette Party Themes

It’s not uncommon for bachelorette parties to have themes to go along with them. Themes make parties more fun and enjoyable, and they can also make your bachelorette party more unique. Here are some great bachelorette party themes for you to choose from:

Bar hopping theme
• Bar Hopping Theme. Jump from bar to bar in style and with your best girlfriends, with a bar hopping theme. There won’t be a lot of opportunities for the bride and her girls to do this once the bride gets married, so make the most out of this wild night.
• Spa Theme. Give the bride a break and a well-earned downtime from the flurry activities leading up to her wedding with a spa theme. Most spas have package deals that cater exclusively for bachelorette parties, so you can look those up and save yourself a lot of trouble (See Spas). You can also hold a spa theme at your own home, too. Just make sure you have the necessary spa materials such as bath salts, mani/pedi kits, massage oils, candles and lots of towels. You can also hire a professional masseuse, manicurist and pedicurist for a real pampering.
• Sex and the City Theme. Want something sassy and classy? The Sex and the City theme may just be the theme you’re looking for. Serve up a storm of bellinis, martinis and cosmopolitans while bonding over a marathon run of this famous show.

Weekend away theme
• Weekend Away Theme. Once your friend is married, she may find it hard to find time for those impromptu weekend vacation with her best buds. Take advantage of the last days of her singlehood and go to a little getaway to the beach, a ski trip or a camping weekend. Check with the other guests if they’re willing to shell out for a mini-break and ask your friendly travel agency for available group tours and packages.

Make sure that whatever your theme is, it’s something that’s within your budget and something that the bride will really enjoy.

Bachelorette Party Invitations and Decorations

Bachelorette party Invitation

Anything goes when it comes to choosing a design for your bachelorette party, unless you have a particular theme for your party. You can also commission a caricature of the bride made as a design, or the bride’s picture as design for your invitation card. Make sure that all the information are included like the date and time of the party, directions on how to get to the party venue and dress code. You can even include whether or not the party will be conservative or wild, just to let your guests know what they’re getting into!

Decorations can consist of banners, streamers and balloons. Have a bar set up and hire a bartender, if you like, to prepare all those yummy cocktail drinks. If you have a theme, such as a beach party, you have to make it feel more like the actual beach by incorporating elements such as beach colors and items you would typically see on a beach scene.

Prepare goodie bags for the guests to take home afterwards. Some goodie bag ideas are phallic-shaped chocolates, mini mani/pedi kits or candles in margarita glasses. It’s also a good idea to hire a limousine for the night, especially if you’ll serve alcoholic drinks.

Your party could also last late into the evening, so you better prepare for the possibility that some of your guests will be sleeping over. If you’re hosting the party at home, make sure that you have extra cushions and fresh sheets for your guests to sleep in.

Naughty and Nice Bachelorette Party Games and Activities

Activities for your bachelorette party can range from very nice to very naughty. Keep in mind that you should first consult with the bride on what is acceptable and what is not. You should also consider what your friends are amenable to as well. Imagine the horror of having a male stripper gyrating to embarrassed and horrified looks. You wouldn’t really call that a successful activity, would you? Here are some ideas that you can choose from.

• Groom Trivia. Find out how well the bride knows the man she’s about to marry. Ask the groom a few days before the party about his likes and dislikes, favorite things and hobbies. The bride and her friends will certainly have a few laughs with this game.
• Drinking Game. Try to find a video of the bride’s prom or previous birthdays. List down things you will commonly find in old home videos such as dated fashion sense, corrective glasses, braces, overly teased hair and awkward smiles. Hand out a list to your guests and tell them to take a drink whenever you see one of the listed items in the video.
• Scavenger Hunt. List items that you think the bride will need on her honeymoon vacation. If she and the groom are going to Hawaii for their honeymoon, the items can be beach-themed like suntan lotion, sunglasses, car keys and flip flops. Send her out on a scavenger hunt either within the party venue where you have already hidden the items in the list, or in a bar where she can ask for these items from various patrons. Reward her with drinks or special gift items.

Watch this video to find out how to play this Scavenger hunt game.

• Prizes for Gifts. The most interesting gifts usually pop on bachelette parties. Naughty items like lingerie and sex toys are commonplace when it comes to giving gifts to the honoree. However, there are also expensive ones and highly-personalized ones that are meant exclusively for the bride. See what your friends come up with when you announce that there will be prizes for the most outrageous gift, the naughtiest gift, the most sentimental gift, and other categories you can come up with.
• Tissue Dresses. Divide your guests into three or four teams. Supply them with two rolls of tissue for each team. Each team will then assign a “bride” that they will then clothe with a wedding dress out of tissue paper. You can make things more exciting by setting a time limit, and see them create a crazy dress in no time. The real bride will choose the best dress out of all the dresses.
• Bride Roast. Subject your bride to good-natured fibbing, joking, funny insults, and over-the-top praise, all in the name of good fun. This is especially fun for brides who have become borderline bridezillas over the course of their wedding planning.

You can have naughtier versions of classic party games such as Pin the Jewels on the Man, a twist on the old Pin the Tail on the Donkey, where you pin whatever is appropriate on a poster of a muscular male. You can also have a phallic-shaped pinata. You can also have a special appearance or video greeting from the groom. Whatever it is, make sure that your bride is okay with it.

Feast Worthy of a Bride

The theme of the party, if there is one, should also be considered when it comes to preparing for food for the party. For example, a movie theme party should have popcorn and soda, while a wine-tasting theme should have wine and cheese.

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Anything goes with a bachelorette party, but make sure you stock up on chips, vegetable sticks, dips and hors d’ouevres, because guests will be walking around and they’ll want food they can take with them. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks such as wine, punch and beer should be free-flowing. Last, but not the least, don’t forget to get an erotic cake or a phallic-shaped cake for your bride to cut up and enjoy. Have an awesome bachelorette’s party, and drink responsibly!