I went to my first bridal shower this weekend. I was sort of saving it for myself.. u know my own bridal shower. I wasn't exactly thrilled to be there, tagged along with a friend. The girl getting married is an acquaintance, not a friend really. Since I had never been to a bridal shower, I was interested in seeing if it was as interesting as the movies make it out to be.
First off, before you'all get too excited, there was no male stripper... So first strike against the movies. So there are games that are played at every shower... being the junkie that I am as soon as I came home I googled bridal shower games to find that we played most of them. Speaking of google.. now when I am going to a party of someone I don't know, to get an appropriate gift, all I do is google... and get the perfect gift. (more on the bridal gifts in a minute)
SO the games:
There were trivia games... like the names of the groom, and things about the bride... most of which I did not know seeing as I don't know the chic well. And then there was the bridal runway. So chic leaves the room and we have to guess what she was wearing.
Gifts-- this was interesting... She got almost 15 pieces of lingerie. Whatsmore they were all white. Basically, folks were not that creative.. . I suppose you can't have one too many... one for each day of the week, and then some.
And then the discussion turned to relationship advise: that marriage is hard work, etc.
Lunch time!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
bridal shower
Posted by Majonzi at 12:38 PM
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Wow, what a sober affair, I would have expected at least some tears or some screaming.
I don't know if you have ever heard of Zimbabwean kitchen parties. A Zim girl (she may have been playing, I don't know, but it's still worth telling) told me that apparently the older Zim women sit around the kitchen naked, sometimes with alcohol, and proceed to tell the young soon-to-be-bride EVERYTHING (and I do mean everything) she needs to do to keep her man happy.
The way I see it, judging by my experience with Zims, this is very possible.
Wow! That sounded like so much fun! Lakini bridal party yako ni lini?
@ Mwangi
Ebu toboa what you have been up to!
@Aco: Gentleman's code bwana...skip the first four and go straight to the fifth ;)
Where did my linguistic skills go, I am of course referring to pleading the fifth.
And majonzi ebu make sure you let cyber folk know when ur bridal party is going down.
lol, was my boredom that obvious? Anyways, there was some laughter... for real, there was. Not just from me, LOL.
@Mwangi-- eh, now I don't even want to think of my aunts showing me anything like that! ikae!!
@aco and mwangi- I would have said I will have no bridal shower. Lakini, apparently its a surprise thrown by the girlfriends... . So its out of my hands.
I agree with Mwangi sounds too sober. here at home the bridal showers are begining to rival the stag nights (from what I hear!!! since I never been to one)
Very interesting angle from Zims!
eeeh nowadays in Kenya you dont need your aunties to tell you all that just hook up with Getrude Mungai the lady of Tetezo.
Can I join the choir of tell us the date we panga the shower???
I attended my sister's shower a few weeks ago, results of which I posted on my blog. It was dead booring,alot of church people, very proper, but we had an after party which was more candid. I'd love to attend a Zim one. Sounds very enlightening.
Ugandans are also told everything at these things.
was there a female stripper, was there? lol...
I have now been to a couple of bachelor parties and the whole strip club affair is overplayed now.
maybe what would be fun is a place where random bachelorlete parties hook up with bachelor parties events of the nighs orchestrated by zim women
I have been to a copule of bridal showers in Uganda. Can I just say "not for the faint hearted". They get this lady called SENGA.Let's just say Senga really leaves no stone unturned and she talks about bedroom matters for about 98.9999% of her time there and then the other % she will tell yo about OTHER roles of women. And she has props and she can illustrate if asked. NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED. Your biology lessons didn't even come close.
oh, where is the nude men! with that title sister, i was hoping there would be at least a couple hopping out of something!
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