Backyard Bridal Shower: Part 2

Backyards can be a perfect venue for a late summer Bridal Shower and you can usually count on beautiful sunny skies and warm temperatures, at least around here. The best part about hosting an event in your own yard is that some of the set up can begin the day before. At least that is how we planned a bridal shower last month but, to our surprise, it rained! That meant most of our set up had to be put on hold until the next morning, the day of the shower. As you can imagine, we were up bright and early to get started but were greeted with yet another surprise, an unexpected blanket of fog. With only hours left until guests arrived we proceeded with set up anyway. Thankfully it all burned off before the guests arrived and it turned out to be a beautiful day. 

A DIY yard sign, made by Mr. Wonderful,  led the guests to the backyard. A table under the trellis reminded guests to put on their face mask, practice social distancing, and to use the hand sanitizers which were placed around the yard. Extra face masks were provided for anyone that forgot to bring their own.

Just beyond the trellis was our gift area.

The new fire pit tabletop served as a gift table and the benches were reserved for the Bride, the mother of the bride and mother of the groom. Since our bench cushions are blue I decided to make white slip covers so they would look more festive and match the decorations. There was a lot of room for guests to space out in the yard in white chairs just outside of the fire pit bricks so that everyone could adhere to the required distancing rules.

The benches were marked with white DIY reserved seating tags which coordinated with the reserved seating chair tags at the table. 

A couple more DIY rustic wood signs that Mr. Wonderful made with his router were placed on top of the fire pit benches.

We put hand sanitizer in Ball® jars and tied on cute little DIY tags that we made to coordinate with the shower theme.

Games are also a fun part of a bridal shower. We set up our guessing game with another DIY sign on a table in the yard. In keeping with our theme we used a large Ball jar to hold the Hershey's® Kisses©. 

Miss E prepared all the other games and cute coordinating printables as well. 

Once the yard was set up it was time to begin setting staging the food and beverages which we prepared ahead of time and finished up the morning of the shower. I will be back to share what we served and also how it was served to keep our guests safe and healthy during this Covid-19 pandemic. 

Happy Saturday!