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The cost of a wedding can cost more than most couples put down as a down payment on their first house. Many couples get lost in the details of table decorations and menu planning and forget about the whole idea of gathering loved ones together to help them celebrate their nuptials. The materialistic trend of the uber wedding has even trickled down to bridal showers. Bridal shower invitations often just obligate guests to purchase more presents. Guests should look forward to a bridal shower, not feel a tug on their bank account. In this day and age when couples are waiting longer to get married and are already established in their careers, there should be a trend in bridal showers toward more fun and less gifts. Prospective brides now have an opportunity to throw great alternative bridal showers that their grandmothers most definitely were not allowed to. Let friends and family who will get those bridal shower invitations off the hook for expensive presents and let them attend a creative and fun event instead. I will give you some freebies, in case you need a jump start on the brainstorming. Something involving food or wine will always make people happy. What guests would not want to receive bridal shower invitations to a hosted wine tasting soiree? Your guests can taste and then choose the wine that will be downed at the wedding reception. You can buy jackets for the wine to hide the labels and allow everyone a chance to comment and vote on their favorite bottle. Another option is to have a "stock the wine cellar" party, in which everyone brings a bottle to stock your home collection. All your guests can write something on the bottles. Every time you and your husband open a bottle in the future, you will fondly remember the shower and the person who gave you the bottle. Food and cooking can be the centerpiece of the party too. You can have everyone write up their favorite recipe on snazzy paper. All the guests can then glue the recipe on a page in the book and decorate it however they want. You will think of your loved ones and your shower for years to come as you make all the yummy recipes as a couple. If you have culinary geniuses in your circle of friends, you can go with something more advanced. Have your guests make an appetizer. Your guests vote on the best one via secret ballot (so no one will leave with hurt feelings). Serve the best hors doeuvre at the wedding reception by calling it by the guest who created it (The Sarah Simmered Stuffed Mushroom). Send out the bridal shower invitations and let your guests eat, drink and be merry. Put your thinking cap on and come up with something different. Revel in the fact that you are hosting a fantastically fun party for the very people that will be toasting you and your partner.