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Parties & Showers

Wedding showers for couples, wedding shower games, engagement parties, bridal showers, bachelor and bachelorette party ideas, rehearsal dinners, hangover brunches… we’ve got ’em all! Check out these alternatives to traditional wedding parties.

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Our Stereo Love Party or, How we fine-tuned our wedding playlist

Our wedding playlist was way too long. I’m talking, the reception and dance playlist was 20.2 hours long! So we threw a “Stereo Love Party” and refined the list with the help of our friends.

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My paintball hen’s party adventure

I’m by no means a pro paintball player — I just think it’s hilarious fun! So for my hen’s weekend [Editor’s note: aka “bachelorette weekend”], I demanded we go and play paintball for a day. I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate my upcoming wedding than by running around in the mud and shooting my best friends.

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I love this ’50s housewife-themed bridal shower!

Ladies: steal this idea for a ’50s housewife-themed bridal shower. We’re talking the perfect excuse to break out your biggest most colorful fashions, show off your sexy pinup collection/baking skills. Plus there’s lots of amazing ink in this post as a bonus…

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Scrabble-themed wedding shower

We feature very few posts about wedding showers, because wedding showers aren’t often, well, offbeat! But here’s a Scrabble-themed shower that we thought y’all might like!

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Have a crazy, sexy bachelorette party NO ONE will forget with The Keyhole Sessions in Toronto

From the second The Keyhole Sessions contacted us about their weekly, erotic life-drawing event held in Toronto I thought, awesome! Ever since I wrote an article about offbeat bachelorette party ideas I have been bombarded with even more and even crazier ideas and this event could be one of the craziest yet!

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Offbeat bachelorette party ideas

We get a lot of emails asking for bachelorette party advice and then recently I was asked by a soon-to-be married friend of mine for offbeat bachelorette party ideas, citing that, “The awesome male strip review that we were going to go see only has shows on Friday and Saturday and my party is on a Wednesday night. Boooooo. I need offbeat bachelorette party ideas!” So here we go.