Throw A Bridesmaid Soiree For Your Girls

Let's look at the facts: your bridesmaids are your very best friends. You love to have a good time. You love to have a good time with your very best friends. What better way to take a break from the stresses of planning a wedding than to throw a party in honor of the girls that are helping you out the most? Without the pressure of a bachelorette party, but with a little more planning than an impromptu get-together, a bridesmaid soiree is the perfect time to relax and have fun with your best girls, and it's a great time to distribute your bridesmaid gifts, too.

Make it a classy fete with a fine meal served on a silver platter - after all, they've helped you this much without asking for anything in return, it's only right that you give them a night off and show them some love! Set up the table to reflect this fanciest of occasions with these Arc Photo Frame and Placeholders. They're pretty and elegant, and you can hide a picture of you with your girls behind each name card. Then they can keep them as bridesmaid gifts!

Once you've served up a fine meal, break out the mixed drinks and girly movies. Although the dress code was strictly cocktail party, now it's time to get back to your roots with your favorite movies from your youth. Relive the glory days of Christian Slater and Ethan Hawke, recalling your teenage crushes and everything that's led you here to your upcoming wedding. Group hugs, anyone? Keep it comfortable with bridesmaid gifts of the Bridal Party Hoodie Set as you battle out who gets the couch, and make sure there are extra pillows to cry into if the mid-nineties indies make you too nostalgic.

Gift yourself with a set or two of these Personalized Martini Glasses featuring your new last initial, and as you and the girls are sitting around dishing the latest gossip and sipping Cosmopolitans, surprise them with bridesmaid gifts of Personalized Martini Glasses of their very own! For extra fun, include mixers with the glass sets for the next party they throw, whether it's apple martinis or bloody marys they like the best. There's no excuse now, they have glasses of their own! Then pour up another round in celebration.

Preserve the evening on film and hide the pictures away afterwards in the Me and My Bad Girls photo album, or just pass the offending evidence out as bridesmaid gifts. After all, no one except you and your girls need to see the photos that resulted from the tipsy game of Truth or Dare that followed the emptying of the bucket of Cosmopolitans.