Celebration of Love Bridal Shower Theme

Celebration of Love Bridal Shower Idea: Host a Champagne Shower

The Celebration of Love Bridal Shower collection conveys contemporary sophistication! Our champagne glass motif says that celebration is in the air! Decorate around the champagne theme to continue the celebratory mood! Here's some ideas to consider:

• Replicate the design on our Celebration of Love plates when creating centerpieces. Create a grouping with wide pink, blue and/or light green candles, 2 champagne glasses, satin ribbon, red food coloring, water and glass marbles. Group candles and glasses together, winding ribbon throughout the base of the arrangement. Fill glasses with water and a couple drops of food coloring (to create the illusion of pink champagne). Drop some glass marbles in glasses to create stability and then scatter more marbles onto tabletop around arrangement.
• Use our coordinating table cover to designate a tribute table for the couple. Arrange lots of framed photos of the couples’ courtship that tell the story of their own Celebration of Love. Sprinkle hearts throughout onto tabletop. Use white lights intertwined with white tulle fabric to hang on the wall over the table, creating a dramatic ‘frame’ for the tribute table.
• Save money and create custom monogrammed champagne glasses for guests. Buy acid paper from a crafts store. Hold paper’s acid side onto glass surface, and then draw the monogram or initials onto the backside of the paper. The acid will literally etch the glass creating a frosted effect! Your guests will be delighted when they see their own personalized glasses waiting for them! (Of course, send the guests home with their special glasses!)
• Create table décor using champagne glasses filled with glass marbles and battery-operated tea lights at the top. (Note: Hide the edge of the tea light with the marbles, so only the light shows from the glass. Also, you can alternate between some of the marbles using clear/opaque plastic shred for an interesting effect!)
• Use short, goblet-style champagne glasses to serve mousse, fruit or dessert courses. Or, place on tables, filled with after-dinner mints.
• Create a champagne fountain at the center of the room. Use our Celebration of Love 18-inch pink and blue heart-shaped balloons to create additional height and interest by the fountain. (Note: Use lots of long curling ribbons too, as the A/C will create movement!)
• If serving champagne, remember to also offer sparking white grape juice for those guests who don’t imbibe so they can celebrate too!
• Create your own unique tiered serving dishes as you continue the ‘champagne’ motif. Simply use 4 or 5 tall champagne flutes as ‘legs’ stacking silver platters atop the flutes. Use hot glue to hold the glasses onto the platters. (Note: To remove the dried glue later, place glasses and platters in the freezer for several hours. When you remove them, the glue is frozen and comes right off, causing no damage!)
• Use ice buckets as tabletop décor. Fill with tissue paper, baby’s breath, pearls, tulle fabric and lace. Place a few magnolia flowers and leaves at the base of each ice bucket.
• While guests sip champagne, invite them to play Champagne Trivia. Give each guest a pretty wine glass marker or wine bottle stopper each time they guess an answer correctly. (These should be new and may be given to guests to keep.) Obviously, the game’s overall winner should receive a bottle of champagne!

• How many bottles of champagne did it take to fill Marilyn Monroe’s bathtub? Answer: 350
• To be called ‘champagne,’ grapes must be grown in what country’s northeastern region? Answer: France
• Whose breasts were originally used as molds for goblet-style champagne glasses? Answer: Marie Antoinette
• What color is the skin of champagne grapes? Answer: Black (the pulp and juice is white)
• At what average speed does a cork leave a champagne bottle when uncorked? Answer: 38-40mph, but it can travel as fast as 100mph!
• What is the longest distance a cork has traveled when being uncorked from a champagne bottle? Answer: 177 feet, 9 inches in 1988
• Who is credited with inventing champagne accidentally when carbon dioxide built-up during the fermentation process? Answer: Dom Perignon
• How many bubbles are in a 750ml bottle of champagne? Answer: 49,000,000
• Who said: “ I could not live without champagne. In victory, I deserve it and in defeat, I need it?” Answer: Napoleon