Weddings are emotional times for mothers and daughters.
A daughter's wedding is an emotional time for a mother. She will be delighted to see her girl taking her vows, but will also often feel sadness that her daughter is no longer her little girl.Throwing a banquet for her daughter and friends is a wonderful way for a mother to celebrate this momentous occasion and allow a tear or two at the same time. Making it women-only can reinforce this special bond. The only exceptions to this rule will be male entertainers who are there purely as professionals.
Favorite Things
Theme your wedding banquet around your daughter's favorite childhood or teenage crushes. If she and her girl friends shared a love of ballet or were obsessed with the Justin Timberlake, use her love of the subject to create a theme. She will appreciate the last chance to be a child again with all her friends around her before taking the final plunge into marriage.
Vintage Delights
Add vintage glamor to the banquet by using vintage bone china and requesting all the ladies dress in 1950s style. Serve delicious fluffy cupcakes and tea in delicate china cups to create an elegant aura. Ask the guests to bring a beautifully wrapped 1950s-style gift for the home to create a talking point and give your daughter a giggle as she starts her married life with interesting household items like fluffy feather dusters and frilly aprons to make housework less boring.
Princess Party
Every little girl deserves to be a princess, so choose a theme where all the ladies at the banquet can dress up with sparkle, spangles and tiaras if they wish. Include dainty food and sparkling wine to raise a toast to all the lovely ladies in your daughter's life and lay on some entertainment by hiring professional dancers in black tie to come and whirl the girls round the dance floor as the evening progresses.
Cross Dressing
Dress all the the girls as men so they can experience the fun of changing sex for the night. serve stereotypical "men" food, such as pizza and pitchers of beer. Give a speech in the manner of your daughter's father and allow her and her bridesmaids to do the same as the groom and best man. Keep banter light and see which parts of your speeches are repeated on the wedding day itself. The married women must act like their spouses and single ladies can be playboys or geeks.
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