You know by now how much I love showers. There is just something fun about bringing someone a gift to celebrate this new phase in their life.  This also means I help plan a lot of showers.  I was in a friend’s wedding in January and I helped her sister (the Maid of Honor) host the shower.  We asked her for a guest list, so that we could start planning.  And she gave us a list with phone numbers.  What do I do with phone numbers?  I am not planning on calling all of these people that I do not know (okay there are probably 5 that I don’t know) and asking them to come over to our little party.

But this leads to the next question.  Do we take the easy way out and send an evite?  This seems to impersonal to me and so many people forget to respond.  So then we send out paper invitations, like normal people, right?  This can be costly.  My etiquette knowledge is just screaming in my ear that an evite will not suffice and we must send out paper invitations.  It’s not some little birthday party or barbecue … it’s a bridal shower!  And it needs to be treated with much more respect. What do you think?

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And in case you were wondering, we decided to go with paper invitations.  We used an evite for her bachelorette party, but decided to go the more formal route for her bridal shower.