What is the difference between bridal shower and just getting gifts at wedding?
A bridal shower is similar to a baby shower.It is thrown for the bride to be by a family member or close friend. It is a chance to celebrate the pending nuptuals and for the bride to be to receive gifts such as household items, honeymoon accoutrements, or items for the wedding such as engraved cake knives, bride and groom toasting goblets, or signature books. Bridal showers started back when brides and grooms did not live together before the wedding and most lived at home with their parents until they were married. A bridal shower was an opportunity for the bride to receive needed items to funish their new home with their husbands. Since most gifts given at the actual wedding are monetary there is nothing wrong with having a shower. Bridal showers have changed over the years though. SInce many engaged couples live together or have at least lived outside their parents home prior to getting married, many couples already have everything they need to furnish a new home so many shower gifts
