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Ritz · Dooney & Bourke

planning a bachelorette party- help!

Farrah · Marc Jacobs

A game that I played at a Bachelorette party that I thought was fun was the MoH asked the groom to answer a bunch of questions about the bride and their relationship before the party. At the party the bride had to answer them. Every answer that she had the same as her FH she got to make someone at the party do a shot. The ones she got wrong she had to do a shot herself. It was pretty fun because it gave a lot of us a chance to learn fun stuff about the couple that we didn't know.

Some of the questions that were asked:
1. How did you meet Cassy (the bride)?
2. Where did you take Cassy on your first date?
3. When did you know you loved Cassy?
4. Where did you share your first kiss?

Luv2Shop · Kate Spade

I don't know if this is appropriate for this forum but my bridesmaids got me tons of Penis parafanalia. A straw, feather boa, stickers, balloons, mints, it was silly. We got a party bus limo and drank our way downtown Chicago and went to this place called the baton club. It is a drag queen show. It was a blast! You should see if they have one of those by you, or someplace that offers specials (drinks, food, stuff) for bachelorette parties. A lot of bars offer private rooms and stuff.

jestillman · Kenneth Cole

I vetoed a stipper bc I knew i'd have just as much fun out dancing w/my friends (and my friend had a stripper that was SO great no one else could compete).

Anyway, i had a wishing well at my shower so my friends thought it would be fun ot have a dirty/naughty wishing well.

Each person got some sexually related gift, wrapped it up and i opened them all and had to guess which gift was from who and why (i guessed each one wrong). It was a riot! I now have a bag full of stuff I'll probably never use, but one never knows. It was really fun.

Also, MUST have a theme cake. There are TONS! PM me if you want some websites.

nyc_shopgirl · Dooney & Bourke

On the knot.com they have some great bachelorette party games yes games. One is that each girl gets a couple of cards with like different types of guys and she has to find those guys that night or something like that.

Chic · Marc Jacobs

Ok this is what I did for one friend:

Lingerie Shower before Bachelorette Night Out.
Food:Hanky Pankies, all fun food that had sexy names. We set out a menu on the table.
Drinks:Bride's name- tini, then make it her favorite color.
Decor: feather boa, penis pacifier tie on a ribbon to make a necklace, crown, furry handcuffs...these were all around the table with her gifts, and will be used for the bride to wear later.
Game: Ask each guest to write a story down that occured with the bride, must be funny or scandelous... this worked well at our party b/c it was the bridesmaids and their mom's, but these were funny partying type moms. So we handed them to the bride and she had to guess who wrote it, if she was wrong she had to put one item on. Well we had all the mom's claim our stories and we took theirs...these were things like, you fell down the hill at my house...it did happen at at the mother's house...so she was all decked out....beware though don't give the bride too much to drink before you go out... then that night we gave her a list of things that she had to do, like get 5 numbers, get a guy's boxer shorts, and more...we would take pics of it all happenning...fun!

Then I went to this one at the beach:
We all dressed up in a different 80's theme and did a fashion show for the bride before we went out...yes I was the 80's prepster. But there was 80's punk rocker, 80's madonna, 80's prom queen, many more...this was a lot of fun. Then the bride had a tee shirt with her list of things to do and she had to cross them off...it was fun...

Collette · Chanel

I would seriously consider the bride when you plan this. At a friends bachelorette party they made here wear a T shirt with life savers on it and it read Suck For a Buck and I know the bride was really emberrased. I would not be too thrilled with a stripper and all the penis stuff. I would be more emberrased then anything. Especially if we were going out and I had this stuff with me.

dc · Dooney & Bourke

I am with Collette... My friends would have killed me if I embarrassed them in any way, and one actually asked me to please not do anything like that or she'd go home. Plus, frankly, I'd be embarrassed as well.

I am also not into games (also hate them for any sort of bridal/baby shower - I never do games at any shower I host) or pranks or anything obscene. I think that a good time can be had with dinner and drinks afterward - reminiscing and just general having fun out at bars is party enough... keep things natural - someoen will no doubt embarrass themselves somehow anyway, in my experience (LOL). For the one shower, some of us did bring some nice lingerie gifts to the bachelorette, but overall, we kept it (hate this word) "classy."

Not to be all negative - I just think things can be more fun when they're not contrived. Your plan sounds great as is!

smash · Dooney & Bourke

quote:
Originally posted by: Collette
"I would seriously consider the bride when you plan this. At a friends bachelorette party they made here wear a T shirt with life savers on it and it read Suck For a Buck and I know the bride was really emberrased. I would not be too thrilled with a stripper and all the penis stuff. I would be more emberrased then anything. Especially if we were going out and I had this stuff with me."

i couldn't agree more! i am on the shy side when it comes to going out and i *hate* having attention drawn to me. so i would hate it if someone dressed me up in a bunch of penis stuff and dragged me around the city (my bridesmaids are well aware of this, thank goodness). for mine i think we are going to go out with some specific activities in mind and there will be partying and there will be drinking and i am sure there will be embarrassment.... but no props.

i actually went to a bach party where we did what nyc_shopgirl wrote -- each girl was given 5 index cards with different types if guys on them (applicable to the bride - for example "the jersey guy" and "the guy who looks the most like ben (her ex)") and we had to find these guys at each of the bars that we went to. when we found the guy in question, the bride had her photo taken with each one using one of those cameras that prints the pictures on stickers (don't remember what it's called) and then the maid of honor made a scrapbook for her using the sticker photos and the index cards (on which the bridal party had actually drawn stick figure representations of each of the guy "types"). we all went to a fun dinner beforehand. there were no props or any "bride" identification stuff. just a bunch of girls out being silly. it was really fun.