Elegant Shower Favors

My husband and I recently had an opportunity to showcase our wedding favor & gift business at a bridal expo show in Wooddale, Illinois. We enjoyed the opportunity to speak with all the future brides and grooms and their families. We loved sharing ideas with family members regarding useful and practical gift and favor ideas for bridal showers and weddings. Most of the women who visited our booth wanted to know if we carried the famous Purse Valet. We carry two different types of purse valets.  You may be wondering just what is a purse valet ?  A purse valet  is a decorative metal hook which sits on  the edge of a table and is used to hang your purses. Everyone loves giving these as bridal shower gifts because they are  affordable and practical gifts.  What women wouldn’t be thrilled to have an alternative to hanging her purse on the back of a chair or placing it on a dirty resturant floor. yuck…. Purse Valets are not only great favors for your bridal showers, but they also make great birthday gifts,  stocking stuffers, thank you gifts, the possiblities are endless.                               

      What woman hasn’t struggled with the problem of where to park her purse at restaurants, meetings and other occasions? Sling it over the back of the chair? Too vulnerable. Keep it in your lap? Too awkward. Place it on the floor? Ewwww. Imagine how thrilled the guests at your party or bridal shower will be when they find you’ve chosen the “Purse Valet” Stainless-Steel Handbag Holder for their favors! They’ll probably open it right there and use the practical Purse Valet while they enjoy a fun-filled, worry-free celebration! The 1 ¾” x 1 ½” flat, silver-tone purse sits on the tabletop and a 3 ¼” metal hanger drops under the table, where you conveniently and confidently place the strap of your purse. Cute, clever and colorful 4 ½” x 4” x 3/8” gift box shows you exactly how to use the valet, with an artist’s illustration of a woman seated at a table, enjoying her cocktail because her purse (the actual purse valet) is kept securely under the table. Oh, and the very-portable valet fits easily in any purse…

                                                Get your girlfriends “hooked on love” with these ultra hip fashionable purse accessories. Stop carelessly hanging your purse on the back of restaurant chairs! Now you can keep your purse close and secure, off of the floor…with style. Place this gorgeous heart shaped hook at the edge of a table to use as a cradle for your purse—wherever you go! The heart shaped purse hooks have a detailed silver metal beaded trim and white enamel in the center with the word “LOVE” delicately displayed in the center. Ideally packaged in a purse shaped envelope with a white ribbon handle, this perfect gift is completed with a trendy pink and black “Hooked on Love” label. As a bonus, included is a handy velvet bag to store your purse hook in and a card on how to use the hooks. Size of Purse Hook: 4.5″ wide Size of Packaging: 6.25″ x 4.5″

Every year Modern Bride Magazine features their top “100 Things We Love”, and in the2008 August-September Issue, Modern Bride has listed wedding favors that you can find at http://www.elegantshowerfavors.com.        

We carry the complete line of Kate Aspen Favors & Gifts, as well as other well known high quality favors and gifts for your special day.

Making Modern Brides List at #28 is our Garden Topiary Placecard Holder.

A breathtaking topiary—always the stunning showpiece of an exquisitely arranged garden—is the inspiration for this dramatic Kate Aspen design. The Topiary Photo Holder/Place Card Holder will bring the same engaging charm to your wedding reception tables. Nobly rising from a well-crafted, dark-wood planter is the finely manicured, round, rich green foliage—an artisan’s hallmark. Every topiary can hold a cherished photo of the happy couple or a place card. The topiaries, which come in sets of four, measure 4” h x 2” w. Our Topiary’s are hot sellers because of their realistic detail and affordable pricing.

Making the list at #76 is our “Ain’t Love Grand” Piano Placecard Holders. These black miniature grand piano’s have wonderful detail and  offer a touch of elegance to your wedding table as well as a decorative gift for your guests to take home and use as photo holders. Sold as a set of four with four place cards. 

You can’t go wrong with any of the Elegant Favors and gifts at ElegantShowerFavors.com. Check out our complete line of truly unique placecard holders that can double as a unique keepsake for your guests.
 

Do you want to offer your  bridal shower guests a handcrafted favor or gift ? If you answered yes, then you have to visit  www.pmesoaps.com or better yet, if you live in the Chicagoland area or in the Western Suburbs of Illinois you may want to see these handcrafted favors in person at The Bartlett Farmers Market every Friday at the Bartlett Town Center,  from 2pm-6pm .

Just look for the vendor with the sign that reads Pure Essentials. Pure Essentials sells  handcrafted bath and body products which are beautifully packaged and will make the perfect bridal shower favor for your guests. The Pure Essential company is willing to customize bath and body products for your special day. You can also add a personalized favor tag from Elegant Shower Favors.com to offer a truly unique personalized favor that your guests will cherish long after your bridal shower.

A Bridal Shower is meant to be a special  and important part of the wedding festivities. It’s a time for the bride and all her friends, family and soon to be family to come together to celebrate the excitment and anticipation of the wedding day.  June is a great time of year to host a bridal shower. Why not take advantage of the great wheather and host an outdoor garden shower. You can give your guests  small decorative basket favors with plantable wild flower seeds .

Giving your guests an elegant and unique bridal shower favor  is a wonderful way to say thankyou for attending your bridal shower.  Whether you are hosting a formal shower or a beach theme shower, ElegantShowerfavors.com has the perfect bridal shower favor that all your guest are sure to love and remember.

The butterfly gift basket was lovingly designed to remind your guests of a springtime garden in bloom, with a dainty butterfly frame and charming mesh lining, it is sold in sets of 12.  Each basket is 2 1/8″ long by 7/8″ and comes with a little paper “grass” filling and a wildflower seed packet. These adorable favors will make your event just a little bit sprightlier! Each set contains 12 baskets total with four of each pastel colors (lavender, pink and green),  a packet of grass and wildflower seeds and 12 seed packs. Some assembly required.</p>

A bridal shower is a gift giving party given for a bride before her wedding. The custom originated in the United States, although the first stories about these events have been known to originate in Brussels, Belgium around 1860. It remains a primarily US and Canadian practice. Showers are usually coordinated by the bridesmaids, who invite guests to offer gifts for the home of the bride and groom.

The custom of the bridal shower is said to have grown out of earlier dowry practices when a poor woman’s family might not have the money to provide a dowry for her, or when a father refused to give his daughter her dowry because he did not approve of the marriage. In such situations, friends of the woman would gather together and bring gifts that would compensate for the dowry and allow her to marry the man of her choice. A frequently quoted legend traces the origin of this practice to sixteenth or seventeenth century Holland. However there are also parallels with many dowry practices and the US Colonial or hope chest (trousseau) custom.

In the United States bridal showers started in urban areas in the 1890s, mainly among the upper middle classes. By the 1930s bridal showers and bridal favors had spread to rural America.

The earliest use of this sense of the word in print may be in the Grand Rapids Michigan Evening Press 22 June 4, 1904: “The ‘shower parties’ that through mistaken hospitality the wedded couple are forced to attend…” And may derive from the custom in Victorian times for the presents to be put inside a parasol, which when opened would “shower” the bride-to-be with gifts.