If you have a voice that’s meant for more than just singing in the shower, why not jump on-stage and front the band for a song or two? This can be the perfect way to express how you feel about your new husband or wife, and it’s guaranteed to be a performance they never forget – hopefully for all the right reasons!

2. Have a dance-off

Performing a dance-off with your partner, best man, mother or even your entire bridal party, is definitely one way to get the party started, and if tradition isn’t really your thing, this can follow or even replace the classic bridal waltz. Taking a dance lesson or two before your wedding day can see you busting moves that your guests never saw coming, and is guaranteed to bring a buzz to your wedding that will keep everyone on the dance floor for hours.

3. Have musicians enter with the bridal party

Want to enter your wedding reception with a bang? How about walking in with a 4-piece horn section? Once recent bride decided that she and her new husband should walk in to Stevie Wonder’s ‘Uptight’ being performed by the band. The twist was that the entire horn section walked in with her – resulting in an entrance nothing short of spectacular

4. Write a song to be performed on the day (possibly by you)

Searching for the perfect way to express how you really feel to your new husband or wife? Why not compose a song for the band to perform? This is an incredibly touching gesture that your partner will no doubt remember for years to come.

5. Have a video kiosk for guests to record their messages to you

Take advantage of the technological advancements of the last ten years, and shy away from the traditional photo booth – video kiosks allow your guests to leave entire video messages, can hold up to 60 hours of video footage, and cost the same or less than a photo booth. At the end of the wedding, the operator will burn you a dvd (or two, or three, or four…) with all the messages from your wedding guests throughout the night.

6. Refer to your cultural heritage

If either you or your partner have strong links to another culture, why not pay homage to it at some point during the day? This can be through music, food, dress…whatever gesture you feel works best. This will not only bring something unique to your wedding celebrations, but will also allow you to share your cultural identity with friends and family.

7. Hire a roving magician or illusionist

Having a magician or mentalist perform at your wedding is a great way to keep your guests entertained. You can have the magician dressed as a member of the wait-staff, only to surprise guests with tricks and mind-games to keep them entertained throughout the night.

8. Celebrate with fireworks

If flamboyant and dramatic is your style, then fireworks can serve as the ultimate showpiece.  Extravagant and awe-inspiring, a personalised fireworks display is an incredible entertainment experience.

9. Enter your ceremony with a bang

Via horseback, parachute, out of the ocean…it may sound strange but these entrances have been done before, and work spectacularly. If you want to shock your guests, why not imagine the most unconventional entrance you can think of, then make it happen. It’s up to you to make anything possible!

While it is supposedly a faux pas to have the mother of the bride plan the bridal shower, my daughter’s bridesmaids enlisted my help. I offered to host it in our home and they were thrilled.  We all talked and decided on a rather unconventional approach. We would do a co-ed, or as more commonly known – a “Jack and Jill” shower.    The first thing I suggested was to come up with a theme.  Using a theme for any celebration makes it easier to plan.  It’s kind of like a GPS for your plans.  It will help to give you ideas for everything from the invitations, to the menu, activities and even the favors. Since they wanted to do it in May, I suggested a Kentucky Derby theme and we did it on Derby Saturday.

For our menu, we kept it simple – we made assorted sandwiches, salads, fruits and pastas…as if you were on the racetrack sidelines picnicking. We had lemonade, iced tea and beer, wine and fresh fruit sangria in a punchbowl.  For desserts we made dozens of mini-cupcakes and displayed them on cupcake stands. We added chocolate covered strawberries, homemade cookies and cake ball desserts. If you have never eaten cake ball desserts you are in for a treat. Small bite sized nuggets of cake and frosting, dipped in melted chocolate. We used the chocolate for candy molding and did a rainbow of colors.

I always love to include a game at our own family celebrations so we came up with a Derby Dollars guessing game.  The game gathered everyone together to watch the race… so fun! Even those who knew nothing about horse racing got into the action.

The final gathering was to watch both the bride and groom open their lovely gifts.  It was a beautiful celebration filled with all the people they both love so much. Best of all, this whole showers cost pennies in comparison to hosting it out of the house.  Many of these ideas would be perfect for a more traditional bridal shower with a garden or tea party theme… so let your creative juices flow and you can plan a beautiful bridal shower on a limited budget.   You can see the fun invitations and creative favors we made as we planned this bridal shower at Celebration Ideas Online

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In this game, all you girls can have real fun watching the lovely bride blush a lot. If you are all mutual friends, then trust me, it’s going to be a real success. Even otherwise, its gonna be fun because you gals will get a chance to hang out together! Yes! You’ve got to do some group shopping! This game requires you to have 8 pairs of sexy lingerie for the bride. Now for the big question- ‘What should we buy?’ Try these

• Bridal Strapless Bra for the wedding

• White bridal lingerie for the nuptial night

• Laced sexy lingerie for the honeymoon

• Red garter thong for Valentine’s day

• Leopard print for the 1st anniversary

• A pink pair and a blue pair for first baby

• Full cut sexy lingerie for 25 years of marriage and finally…

• Granny Panties for the good old days

On the D-day, make sure to keep them neatly arranged on a clothesline. To pep up the party atmosphere play some fast number. Ask the girls to come up with something funny to say about each of these sexy lingerie items. You could just hold up each pair while reading out your poem and then give them to the bride-to-be.

Just the thought of your friend looking and scanning all those pieces is half the fun! And don’t forget to take lots of pictures! Such unique bridal shower games never show any sign of slowing down! At this stage, I should tell you that LingerieMart has a great selection of wholesale bridal lingerie. They are constantly expanding their selections to bring you really fun stuff. Just remember, your gifts will be cherished for ages to come.