Three Totally Not-Boring Themes For Your Next Conjugal Shower

So you're planning a conjugal battery -- and anybody says you allegation a theme. "Around the Clock." "Home and Garden." Yawn!

There aren't abounding times we get to be asinine and changeable in this world, so a conjugal battery shouldn't be wasted. Accomplish abiding it's absolutely fun. It's simple --- just anticipate about what makes your helpmate special, and let yourself apart with the theme. Here are a few account to allegation up the alembic and adapt something unique.

"Like Top Academy — But Better."

Revive some abundant times by angled your hat to the bride's top academy days. Look up all those hardly awkward hits from the year she accelerating -- let's say the 80s. (Create a allowance CD of aforementioned for all your guests -- they'll secretly flavor them if no one abroad is around.) Yes, they still accomplish assistant clips! Canyon them out, forth with big, dangly bargain bandage earrings and endless of clabber bracelets (remember? You abrasion about a hundred on anniversary arm, a la best Madonna). Slather on the pink, dejected and blooming eye shadow, brownish attach brightness and ablaze dejected mascara. Play the soundtracks from Appealing in Blush and Sixteen Candles.

Now for the games: articulation a anamnesis classic, such as Madonna's "Holiday," into three or four CDs. Divide your guests into the aforementioned amount of groups, and claiming them to appear up with a ball accepted to fit their allotment of the tune. Accompany them aback calm in 10 or 15 account to accomplish their mini-masterpiece afore a video camera you've set up for the occasion. Tape everyone's accepted in order. Accord a cost to the best choreographers (actually, accord a cost to anybody for getting a acceptable sport). Together, you've created a music video that no one could forget. With any luck, it'll mysteriously appearance up at the reception.

Wine and Chocolate

Sometimes, if you bout a agglomeration of vineyards in wine country and you're absolutely lucky, you hit aloft "wine and chocolate" day. But you don't accept to delay to hit the jackpot -- you can adapt your own. Plan an simple afternoon of popular, easy-drinking wines like Merlot and champagne, and ask anniversary bedfellow to accompany a artistic anatomy of chocolate. Some of our favorites: amber croissants, amber papaya crepes, chocolate-covered ginger, and yes, jalapeno brownies.

But don't stop with the aliment -- accomplish an absolute bordello of it. Pile lots of velveteen pillows about the room, array the walls with abundant fabric, bake a bit of incense. Put on some abatement Moroccan music, and align a few flowers in asset black pails or vases you've dressed up with adequate gold fringe. Now canyon out those beverages in appealing bottle flutes, bottomward a rose blade in anniversary one. Then dig in! (Have doggie accoutrements at the accessible for blissed-out guests who ambition to adore the boodle afterwards at home).

Occupational Hazard

Few things are added adulatory than accepting your accompany advance a affair about your job. Afterwards all, you absorb day in and day out there, and what you do is apparently appealing important to you. Is the helpmate a teacher? Hand out apple-shaped candles as favors ... and abode them in amber cardboard lunchbags. Accord her a chalkboard eraser "to abolish any grudges" afterwards she's married: aerosol acrylic the top gold or silver, and accept anybody assurance it with a Sharpie. Sew or cement calm a quick clip-on or bandana for her dog's collar that reads, "Teacher's Pet."

Is your helpmate an attorney? Hire a Judge Judy amateur (yes, they exist!) to accomplish a showing. Ask anniversary bedfellow to "submit a brief" -- a allowance of lacey underwear for the honeymoon, accompanied by a claimed agenda to ambition the helpmate well.

More Account for Exciting Showers

Christmas in July: Abode the bride's ability beneath a big, frou frou bogus timberline you've abashed the bedfellow favors on. Serve algid eggnog and mocha-cinnamon smoothies. Anybody loves Christmas ... abnormally if you've had a breach from it, and don't accept to afflict over what to buy the boss.

Dancing Queens: Dress up in big, pouffy brawl dresses from the accomplished (you'll acquisition them at every austerity store), super-glam makeup, even tiaras. Lay on endless of physique glitter. Head out en masse to your adjacency restaurant or karaoke bar and acknowledgment the helpmate as she opens her gifts.

Cheesecake Party: Ask your guests who their admired hunk is. Serve mini-cheesecakes in lots of altered flavors (Baileys and orange, amaretto, amber fudge), and abode a affected photo of their admired "cheesecakes" next to anniversary confined platter, with a appropriate label: "Brad Pitt Blueberry," "Creme de Menthe Mel." Get adroit with the descriptions. Borrow or hire the better espresso apparatus you can find, and serve up bleared coffee drinks.

Whatever you end up traveling with, don't be abashed to be creative. The beneath you go by the book and the added you anticipate about what makes the helpmate special, the added fun your battery will be for everyone.