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We were so flattered when Bellenza asked to feature our kitchen themed bridal shower we designed back in the spring. Their website shares fabulous inspiration for everything bridal. And of course even if you aren't in the wedding market, you can always take elements from bridal showers and weddings and incorporate them into your next event. Don't forget to not be afraid to be a trailblazer especially when it comes to design. You can read the post here.

Kitchen Themed Bridal Shower - The Food.

A chocolate fountain. Enough said. This was an afternoon shower from 2:00 - 4:00 pm, so light finger foods were served. How fun is it for each guest to have ribbon tied skewers to dip fruit and cake into chocolate.

A good variety of homemade as well as items purchased from Costco were served. Cucumber sandwiches with fresh dill are such a quintessential menu item for a quaint bridal shower. Pimento cheese sandwiches are a typical menu item served at parties down here in the South.

  

Kitchen Themed Bridal Shower - The Details.

Vintage cookbooks. An old scale. Antique hand embroidered dish towels from my very own Grandmother. We used milk glass vases. Old doors, windows, and shutters.

 

I made the serving tray pictured above out of china pieces picked up from different thrift stores. There are many great videos on the internet with instructions on how to make them.

Kitchen Themed Bridal Shower.

First rule of thumb when planning an event is always have a back up plan. Or several. This was a shower where there were a lot of unforeseen events that took place before it happened to cause me to go from one plan to another and then to another! What was supposed to be an outside garden shower, turned into an inside shower when the weather was rainy. So we brought as much as we could in, and decorated with what we had.

Thrift stores are absolutely my favorite place to purchase party supplies. I got the large dresser mirror for less than five dollars, painted the frame blue and the mirror in chalkboard paint. This is a project I've used in the past as well.

 

 

Since the shower was a kitchen/recipe themed shower, all guests were requested to bring in a personal favorite recipe along with their gift for the bride. I created a fun little recipe for marriage as well, which I wrote out on the board.