Great Giveaway – Invitations By Dawn
Throwing my baby sister a bridal shower is the most exciting plan of my summer. I can not wait!
I remember the excitement of my first shower…that gathering of women young and old all sharing their experiences and advice and their generousity in helping us prepare our home for our life together…I have rarely felt that much love in a single hour. In fact, I can still identify things around the house by their giver. Teapot – Amanda. Silverware – Jamie & Tammy. China – Mummum. It’s a gift.
So that being said, when the fine folks over at Invitations by Dawn asked me to review a product – I literally JUMPED. As in up and down. I immediately visited their site and knew exactly what shower invites (yup, they carry more than just wedding invitations) I would love to use for the Nornie’s shower…it was this watercolored roses that really caught my eye.
Aren’t they darling? Perfect for a bridal shower tea party…dontcha think? And when I got them in the mail, I was thrilled with the actual quality of the product. Consider me a fan.
Yup…so the party is officially in the works. Yikes. That means I need to get the basement done…like yesterday.
So while I work on that…and here’s the best part – you can win your own goodies from Invitations By Dawn. But first – whatever will you spend that prize on? There’s a whole slew of stuff they carry…everything from invites:
to save the dates:
to other wedding goodies:
And of course, my own personal favorites…
how darling are those bike invites…yeah…why aren’t I getting married again?
And these bags? I’m thinking they would be the perfect even for family christmas presents…is that weird? um no.
Seriously – if you have a theme and you are planning an event, these are the invites for you.
So here’s how you can enter to win:
PRIZE : $100 credit toward any Invitations by Dawn products
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Wedding planning can be stressful! Let Invitations by Dawn help make your day perfect. Invitations by Dawn offers a comprehensive selection of stylish wedding invitations, save the date cards, ceremony accessories and reception accessories perfect for your wedding theme. Whether your wedding theme is a color, style, hobby or design, Dawn has the perfect match.
It’s a wedding invitations giveaway from Invitations by Dawn! Dawn offers a comprehensive selection of stylish wedding invitations and accessories, perfect for your wedding theme. The lucky winner receives $100 towards any wedding items of their choice, which means everything from wedding invitations to bridal party gifts!
NUMBER OF WINNERS : One (1)
TO ENTER : Leave a comment with the phrase ”PLEASE DAWN” and tell me what your favorite bridal shower activity was…hey, I need some help or you can just tell me what invites you would use from Dawn’s selection if you could get hitched all over again 
PRIZE SHIPS : US only
NITTY GRITTY : This giveaway ends on Friday, August 12th at 8am EDT. Only one contest entry per email address. The winners will be chosen using Random.org and announced on Monday, August 15th.
GOOD LUCK!
We have our winner! Congrats Caren – email me to claim your prize!
p.s. Invitations by Dawn can help everyone save – use the promotion code: BOWER15 to get 15% off orders $150+.
p.p.s. I announced the winner of the last giveaway – go check out if it’s you!
PLEASE DAWN! (I am throwing my little sister’s baby shower soon too and I’m soooo excited!)
My favorite bridal shower “game” is when everyone writes down advice or good wishes and then they all get put in a book for the bride. Such a great keepsake!
PLEASE DAWN! I’m not into the shower games, I just loved opening all the gifts and seeing how people had found the perfect intersection between their individual interests and my wants/needs as a bride-to-be. I love thinking of my family and friends every time I use so many items in my home, even 4 years later!
PLEASE DAWN!
I was at a shower once that instead of the TP dress making, they had each of us take the amount of TP we usually use while going #1
Then after we had taken our amounts, we were to create something the bride could use on her honeymoon. There were sweet ones (flowers, fans, etc) and some funny ones (lingerie, bikinis).
Please Dawn! One of my favorite games was actually at the bachelorette party, but it could be used at a shower too. Prepare a list of questions for the groom-to-be and collect the answers before the shower. Ask things like groom’s favorite color, where they met, when he knew he loved her, etc. Have the bride-to-be try to guess what the answers were. Each time she misses a question, she has to put a marshmallow in her mouth. She can’t eat it though! It’s gets pretty hilarious if she misses several, and has to try to talk around all of the marshmallows!
Good luck with the planning!
PLEASE DAWN!
What they did at my bridal shower was they gave each person a quilt square. They were told to write down a piece of advice for me with a sharpie. At my wedding the lady who hosted the bridal shower gave me a completed quilt with all the squares of advice. It was very sweet!
PLEASE DAWN!
I’m always a fan of the “Newlywed Game” where you ask the groom to answer a series of questions about his beloved and then she answers them at the party. It’s so cute when he is dead on and really knows his woman! And funny when he doesn’t!
PLEASE DAWN!
I’m not really a fan of shower games besides the Newlywed game, so I think using the time to really catch up with friends and family is where it’s at! Sure you’ll need to have a little something for everyone to do. Maybe a slideshow of pictures of the bride and groom? A time to have her talk about the wedding? A toast from the mother of the bride?
PLEASE DAWN!
The best shower I ever went to had a tarot card reader. So much fun!
PLEASE DAWN!
Our favorite shower game for my sister’s bridal shower was a quiz we gave her fiance. Everyone had to try and guess his answers, including the bride. It was a hoot!
Please Dawn!! My favorite bridal shower activity was (and is) drinking (does that even count as an “activity”). The more mimosas the better!!
PLEASE DAWN!
We played something like the newlywed game. We also passed around pictures of movie stars in their dresses and had to name as many as we could remember.
PLEASE DAWN! My bridal shower was a surprise party and it was all a blur. Wasn’t until a few hours into it that I finally realized what was happening.
PLEASE DAWN
My favorite bridal shower game was when the host put a bunch of different items the bride would need on her honeymoon (ex: sunscreen, facewipes, advil) in a pillowcase, and everyone got to feel the pillow case, and then write down their guesses of what was inside. There were some practical items and funny items, and it was hilarious to hear peoples weird guesses!
PLEASE DAWN
My favorite bridal shower activity is eating, ha!
PLEASE DAWN. We played a game in which everyone got one clothespin and no one could say my name (the bride). If they did and someone noticed it, they would get that person’s clothes pin. Basically whoever ended up with the most pins won a prize.
Of course, I got a pin as well, which sounds pretty easy to not say my own name. But, a young third cousin of mine that I don’t really know asked me all sweetly, “Excuse me, but what was you name?” Duh, I cracked.
PLEASE DAWN! My favorite thing was the food! Other than that though, we really just hung out. My bridesmaids didnt plan any games.
please dawn! i love the bike ones! i’m getting married in june and this would be perfect!
PLEASE DAWN…not really an activity but we all brought a dish along with the recipe then the bride had a whole box of family recipes!
dawn me! i loved playing games at bridal showers. can’t remember any, but the cheesier the better!
Dawn Me! I have my first bridal shower this weekend so we will see if we do anything fun!
PLEASE DAWN! “Bridal Shower Bingo”!
PLEASE DAWN!! I love ALL of what I’ve seen so far, but my fav is the brown/blue save the dates. Would have been a perfect fit for our wedding!
Please Dawn!
My son and his wife had a bridal shower seven years ago. It was a “Jack and Jill” Household and Garden shower. Gifts were brought for the groom for the yard and household gifts for the bride. Each guest also brought a family recipe to fill a recipe book that was presented to the bride. Decorations were really cute. They used an old pedal tractor my son had as a child, a lawn ornament of a boy and girl which they added a veil to the girl and on the door was a wreath made from a garden hose with a watering can in the middle with flowers. It was really cute. Guys and girls were invited. Then at the end of the shower, the guys took the groom into another room and dressed him in a tux made out of toilet paper and the girls took the bride and dressed her in a dress out of toilet paper. It’s another toilet paper game but this is the first I had heard of with the groom. Actually, the guys did a really great job! They both looked so cute. My son said he felt like they had almost gotten married that day!
PLEASE DAWN! We played this great game where the host had emailed the groom a set of 25 chores and the groom had said which one of them would do those chores when they got married. At the bridal shower the bride was put on the spot and had to answer the same questions and see who got what right!
PLEASE DAWN!
I don’t recall having any bridal shower activities at my shower. Just good food and laughter!
PLEASE DAWN!
I have several favorite bridal shower memories. I was actually given 5 showers if you count the bachelorette party/lingerie shower! I will leave you with two from a non-X-rated shower.
First, I was given a notebook with words of wisdom written in it from relatives, women at church, and guests at the shower. It was so special to me to have something from all the people who cared about me so much!
Second, my sister had asked my groom-to-be some questions about himself for a “how well do you know your groom” game. Each question I got right, I got $1. The last question was an “all or nothing” question. Either I got all $20, or the consolation prize which was a pack of disposable silverware from KFC. The final question was “Who are you marrying?”, so of course I got it right!
Have fun with your shower!
Jennifer B.
jenniferlynnebeard (at) gmail (dot) com
PLEASE DAWN!
My favorite (most touching) shower memory was that my best friend(MOH) bought postcards…just simple ones with flowers on the front…and she secretly took people one at a time into her kitchen while I (the bride) wasn’t paying attention…and she had them each write a note to me…best wishes, best marriage advice, funny story about marriage, etc to me. Starting 2-3 weeks before the wedding, she mailed me one or two of them every day to encourage me and send me love during the stressful pre-wedding weeks. I treasure them SO much!
Congrats to your sister!
PLEASE DAWN!
The toilet paper dress was fun, especially when you really limit the amount of tape that can be used. Then see how people get creative!
Please Dawn! My girlfriends did a “panty party” where every guest had to bring a pair. They were hung on a clothesline and I had to guess which person brought which undy. Hilarious!
PLEASE DAWN!
My favorite game to watch was where the groom to-be was asked a list of questions, and the bride had to answer the questions correctly, or had to pop in another piece of bubbalicious. The wad of gum is always huge at the end because, as bridesmaids, we asked the most vague and random questions, like favorite quick meal and tv show during the week.
PLEASE DAWN
My bridal shower was country themed, so we had a contest for the best dressed person and they won 2 tickets to a Toby Keith concert…it was so much fun!
PLEASE DAWN!
I haven’t been to many showers that involved games, but I have been to some where you are asked to submit your favorite recipe. Once they had all the recipes they made them into a photo book and send it to the couple. It was adorable!
PLEASE DAWN!!
My favorite game is asking the groom to be several personal questions about himself and the bride. Then asking the bride the same thing to see if she can guess his answers. Always cute to see what the results are!
PLEASE DAWN!!
One of my bridesmaids gave every guest an index card and had them write their favorite memory/story about me. When I opened that person’s gift they had to read it. She then had a cut album ready for all of them to go into. It was a very touching gift and was funny to hear all the great stories.
Please Dawn!
As for bridal games, a good TP dress contest is fun and silly.
PLEASE DAWN
I hosted a bridal shower and we play guess the amount of noodles in the “Jar of Holy Macaroni” It was a fun game and everyone got a kick out of the name!
”PLEASE DAWN”—
I haven’t had my bridal shower yet (wedding is in April!!) but at my sister’s we did a recipe swap so she had a slew of things to try out on her new husband. Thanks!
PLEASE DAWN!
Um my favorite bridal shower game was a frame that my sister decorated with scrapbook paper and found a bunch of different stickers that had a Mexico/beach theme (we’re going to Mexico on our honeymoon). She walked around with the frame for every guest to see, and then had them write down however many they could memorize! It was fun and the guests were glad it was a different game than usually played at showers.
PLEASE DAWN!!!
PLEASE DAWN!
The dress out of toilet paper. That was so much fun!
Please Dawn!
Please Dawn! I have not been to many bridal showers but the one game I liked was kind of like couple trviai – seeing how much you knew about the couple by answering some simple questions. It was funny to see how much random things people knew
Please Dawn!
Sorry, I’m really not a fan of shower activities. I’m crazy for desserts and always wanted an ice cream sundae shower!
PLEASE DAWN!
We played a game where a bunch of kitchen supplies were laid out on a table and everyone tried to remember as many as they could. When the supplies were taken the person who remember the most won!
PLEASE DAWN!
Im getting married in 2 weeks, so I had a shower a couple months ago. My friend did this game where she had a list of items and how many points the item was worth. Probably 20 different items, and everyone had to grab there purse and it was funny to find out all the weird things people had in there, this one is all over the internet too.
Another game she did was she first emailed my fiance and asked him questions, who wears the pants in your relationship, whats your favorite food, whats most annoying about allison, first movie you saw together, and all the questions were on sheets of paper and the guests had to guess how many I would get correct, and they could try and answer for fun, So i had to sit there and answer the questions, I got 14 out of 20 correct. It was fun!
Please Dawn.
I love making the wedding dresses out of TP. I love how creative people can be