My sister just got married this past weekend! It has been crazy wild over here and just starting to settle down. I’m so excited to finally have one of my sisters join me in the ranks of married gals! My sister-in-law and I, with the help of a few other gals, had a blast throwing my sister a personal shower a few weeks back with an Around the Clock Shower theme. It was so much fun! I wanted to keep it special but not overly focused on the standard intimate attire focus. This theme was so much fun to work with. I had so much fun, I had to share the pictures with you all!
DECOR:
We hung an assortment of clocks around the room with puffed balls. I printed out a free clocks printable and assigned different hours to different stations around the room. I put the printable into an old frame. At each table, I indicated the time period and had food items that related to that time period. We made little sticks with the different numbers that were during those hour period to stick in the food items. As guests arrived, they placed their gifts at the assigned time period table that they had received in their invitation.
INVITATION WORDING:
I was able to find a cheap Groupon deal and get some cute printed invitations from an online store. I used the following text:
Tick Tock, Tick Tock
Dan & Christa’s love goes ’round the clock
Your gift for the shower
Should be something right for the hour
As Christa approaches the big day,
We’d like to celebrate her in a most timely way!
Join us for food and fun at Christa’s Personal Shower!
Around the Clock Shower
Date & Time
LocationPlease bring a gift they can use at ______________________.
Christa is registered at …. Her clothing size is … and bra size is …
On the back side of the invitation, I included various gift ideas for the different hours (see below). Since the size of the guest list was small, we stuck with 5 different periods: Breakfast, Lunch, Happy Hour, Dinner & Bedtime. You can also do hour by hour if desired.
GIFT IDEAS:
Breakfast time – coffee mugs, french press, toothbrushes, shower accessories, fluffy towels, cute bathrobe, slippers, a toaster, or a shower curtain.
Lunchtime – cooking utensils, bakeware, serving tray, a butter dish, picnic basket, or a magazine subscription.
Happy Hour – wine glasses, teas, appetizer plates, books, Netflix gift certificate, movie theater tickets, fun board games.
Dinner - Candles, aprons, pots, pans, knives, restaurant gift certificate for the couple, dish towels, food staples, spices.
Bedtime – sheets, pillowcases, movies, duvet cover, cozy blanket, massage oils, nightwear. (I also added my sisters lingerie preferences here as to color and style so that we could really get her things she would like.)
FOOD:
Here’s the food that we served. I delegated the load so it was more doable.
Breakfast: coffee, muffins, apple slices
Lunch: Tortilla wraps (I just bought these at the store for convenience sake), deviled eggs
Happy Hour: Cheese platter, Bruschetta
Dinner: Stuffed mushrooms, veggie tray
Bedtime: Dessert – Around the Clock themed cake
GAMES:
I am not really a very creative person, but the Lord inspired me with a fun idea just a day before the shower. I assembled 25 different random household items and put them in a pile. I picked out 5 items that could fit into the 5 different time periods.
We put the bride-to-be to the test and gave her 3 minutes to figure out how to attach all the items to her body. The goal was to test her multi-tasking abilities in a humorous way. If she could do it successfully, she would be the “Ultimate Happy Housewife”. If not, she would be “Martha Stewart want to be”. It was hilarious. She managed to get it all on her body in some way in 2.5 minutes. If I were to do it again, I think I’d make it more challenging my setting some specific qualifications (i.e. pot must go on head, towel must be tied around body, etc. 
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Following this, I let the guests observe for 30 seconds all that she was wearing. Then we played a game where everyone had to write down what they remembered she was wearing and categorize it by the time periods we had selected for our party. They had 3 minutes to do so. I made sure not to let anyone know we would be playing this second game until after the Bride had finished dressing herself and then I removed the items out of the room quickly.
You can download my printable “What Was the Bride Wearing?” game here.
We concluded the shower by sharing various advice and tips for marriage for my sister and it was such a fun time sharing encouragement and wisdom from those who had gone before her.
This shower ideas was tons of fun and I highly recommend it if you are in looking to throw a bridal shower in the future!
Me and my lovely sisters
What a great idea! Thanks to this post, I’m planning to do this for my sister-in-law’s upcoming bridal shower. I was wondering if you wrote the poem for the invites yourself, and if so, whether or not you’d mind me using it? I’ve tried to think of something original but am struggling!
Thanks either way
No. I just found it online so it is free to use!
had* a blast, excuse me =P haha
What a fun shower theme! Looks like you girls have a blast
Is your sister planning on being a homemaker/SAHM now that she’s married?
This is a wonderful topic to share. How clever! you can use this theme for so many things. My wheels are spinning thinking how I can use this theme for a moms night out for our home school group.
One of the best shower themes that I have been invited too was one for each season. In the invitation you were assigned winter, spring, summer, or fall. I remember I had summer and got them a picnic basket and blanket. It was fun to see what everyone came up with.
Hi Leslie, sounds lovely, I recently got married (9 months ago) and my Mum was so creative to have the bridal shower and I had so many non Christians that came and really they heard so many Biblical things during their time at the shower. Mum made a gift hamper of food and household products and worked the brand name of each product into a story about our courtship and had everyone bring a written piece of marriage advice, a recipe, and a little thought about what vegetable I reminded them of as I worked at a fruit shop. It was lots of fun. She gathered up everything and put into a scrapbooking album for our 1 month anniversary. I look forward to seeing photos of the wedding as I was following Christa’s blog and then found yours.
Love Lizzy
This was such a great post! Like everyone else said, I love hearing more about your personal life. Keep those entries coming!
How fun! It’s always nice to hear about new ideas for fun, classy showers. Your sister is a lucky lady!
Ah! I wish I had a shower like this – so fun and creative, and it looked relaxing and calm, too! Love the idea of ‘time’.
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What a brilliant, creative idea!! I love it as well, but I am wondering if it can be somewhat problematic to get all the guests to come and stay for the whole day for the shower (you know, with how ridiculously busy everyone is nowadays!)?
This is definitely not a whole day shower…sorry for the confusion there. The shower started at 6:30pm and went to 9pm. We just divided the food out according to the times and opened gifts in order in this way as well, but we were not eating them or opening them at literally 8 o’clock in the morning. There is certainly no need to spread the whole shower out throughout the whole day as that certainly would not be feasible for most people.
Aah, thanks for the clarification! I guess I got into the whole “clock” thing too much and just assumed it takes all day, but what you said makes sense–there is not reason why you can’t just do everything in a few hours.
How clever! I just threw a baby shower for my sister, and I wasn’t nearly so creative (of course having 4 little ones 5 and under, does present some challenges to coordinating parties!) Our theme was “sweet” (as in “sweet baby” since we don’t know the gender) and we had all desserts for the food and cupcake themed decorations.
I too love the glimpse into your personal life. How wonderful to have all those sisters! I only have one, and like the previous poster said, I’m trying to make up for it by having a whole pile myself. I hope my brood has as much fun together as you and your siblings seem to!
What a cute idea!!!
Your sister looks a lot like you haha
How cute! You are blessed to have all those sisters! I am an only child and have made up for it by having 5 children of my own (and counting). Looks like a great time.
I loved reading this! What a sweet way to bless your sister before she gets married!
VERY fun and creative!!!! Thanks for sharing this!!!
This is quite simply the MOST clever shower idea I’ve ever heard about! Your decor was adorable, and I’m sure the bride will cherish the wonderful gifts that will make her think of you all throughout the day.
Congratulations to your sister on her happy day!
What a cute idea!! I’m definitely keeping this one in mind!
Such a wonderful shower Lindsay!!!!! Even though you’ve said that you don’t feel like you’re
creative, I beg the differ!
Whoa, that is such a great idea! I am definitely keeping this one in mind for the future! You could, also, use this idea for a birthday party to fill a young girls hope chest….hmmm great idea!
Totally! I have also heard of Around the Clock baby showers. Fun!
Thanks so much for sharing! Your ideas are so creative, and I loved seeing this more personal side of your life.
Thanks for your sweet note. I was hesitant to share because I thought it might be cheesy…being out of the norm. Glad you enjoyed seeing more of my personal life!
So cute. I have wanted to do one of these showers too.
What a great idea!!!