Drive thru Bridal Shower

Hello! My shower is August 1st in Cleveland, Ohio. I know how you feel. What I’m doing is we’re having the shower in my moms backyard, and putting on the invitation that they can either mail us a gift, drive by, or come and stay for food and to hang out. We’re leaving it up to everyone what they’re comfortable with, and having it outside makes people more comfortable too. Hope this helps!

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That's a good idea! Are you going to have masks at all?

I’ve never heard of the drive-thru bridal shower before. Does that mean people just drive up drop off the gifts and then leave? If your guests are split down the middle half and half on this idea then maybe you could have your normal shower, and whoever wants to drive thru can do that at their own leisure.

A few family members were going to host a bridal shower for me, where they were going to stagger the times that guests would be arriving at, to guarantee that only 6 people max were there at any given time. They were also going to offer a drive thru option for those that wanted to stop by, but didn't feel comfortable socializing. Since we postponed our wedding, we also postponed the bridal shower, so I can't say whether or not this worked out well. It seemed like it would have gone well enough, given the COVID scenario.

View Quoted Comment We’re going to try to encourage everyone to wear masks but since it’s most likely going to be small, it’s outside, and we’ll be eating it might be kind of hard to do.

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Basically so, it is not ideal but it is something a bride came up with that kind of went viral. I like the idea, executing it would be the challenge. And that is a good idea.

I think i like the idea of people driving by and then you have a zoom session with everyone opening the gifts

Why not allow some to attend and then for maybe 30 minutes of the time allow the drive through?

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How were people receptive to staggering the times? That is a good idea.

View Quoted Comment Good question! I'm honestly not sure, I hadn't heard. I don't think they had sent out invites by the time we decided to postpone the wedding, so I'm not sure that many people knew what the plan was going to be. It sounded like they had everything all coordinated and that it would have worked out (assuming people felt comfortable enough to attend).

I thought of doing this but then it just seemed like a day for me to stand around like a king getting presents dropped off on my lawn. seems weird to me I would just split your guest list and do shifts

My bridal shower is the same day! I don't have 100% of the information, but basically, it's going to be 1 hour of a drive through. I'll be there with my bridesmaid, my mom and my fmil. You could be at your location with the half of your guests that feel safe coming. People will drive up, socialize briefly, drop off a gift, and they'll be sent off with a favor/snack of some sort. Then there's a break of 1 hour, so everyone who drove up to the shower can get home, then the Zoom portion starts. I know they added some out of town guests to the list when the format changed, so some people will only be there for the Zoom portion, and I also know that some shower gifts have already been delivered to my parents' house. Obviously I can't tell you exactly how well this works, but it seems like a pretty good plan to me.