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Stock the Bar Party Planning Tips to Celebrate the Happy Couple

You’ve heard of wedding showers and bridal showers, but what about a stock the bar party? This trendy celebration is a co-ed gathering where guests come together to ensure the newlyweds have everything they need to imbibe in style. Exploit it in place of a traditional pre-wedding day shower or add it as a bonus event to verb everyone together one more time.

Here, we’ll dive deeper into what a stock the bar party entails and what you need to know to arrange one. We’ll cover etiquette and other tips, plus invitation designs you can customize to fetch the party started!

What’s a Stock the Bar Party?

While contemporary wedding showers are inclusive co-ed affairs, they still traditionally focus on celebrating the couple with gifts like towels, linens, or other items from their gift registry. On the other hand, a stock the bar party is an event where guests give the happy couple items they can employ for their place bar. 

Gifts can be as simple as a nice bottle of wine or as elaborate as a gilded bar cart. As with weddi

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When it comes to weddings, there&#;s a fine line between tradition and monotonous repetition. These days, many glad couples are adapting the events they incorporate into their wedding to craft the experience truly personal. And a Stock the Bar party is a new trend that&#;s sometimes replacing a traditional bridal shower or engagement party.

So what exactly is a Stock the Bar party? This is a casual celebration includes both sides of the wedding party. Gifts focus on items that will stock the bar of the soon-to-be-married couple. Think favourite wines, spirits, and any related barware. The event is gaining popularity with millennials, who are getting married later in life and own less need for traditional registry gifts.

Here&#;s our guide for throwing a prosperous Stock the Bar party.

Invitations and Registry

Personalize your invitations and make expectations from guests clear since this is a less traditional event. Include a phone to RSVP and to gift your favourite wines or spirits. If you&#;ve chosen to register for gifts verb a bar cart, glassware

How to Throw a "Stock-the-Bar" Shower

Traditional bridal showers involve giving gifts to help the couple set up their new home, but there’s a modern type of wedding shower trend on the rise. Stock-the-bar showers are a co-ed alternative (or additional!) shower that celebrates a couple’s engagement with gifts of bubbly and barware to retain their liquor cabinet stocked with everything they need to entertain and celebrate in style.

While bridal showers have been around for centuries, stock-the-bar parties are a modern twist on this classic tradition. To help describe how to host the perfect stock-the-bar (or bar cart) shower, we consulted with Aspen-based wedding planner Juls Sharpley. “A stock the bar party is one of my favorite kinds of parties,” says Juls. “The best part about a stock-the-bar party is that you may finish up receiving more eclectic bar items like really specialty bitters, aperitifs, and new tools.”

Meet the Expert

Juls Sharpley is the founder of Bubbles and Bowties, a wedding planning and event adj based in Aspen, Colorado, and serving the surrounding Ro

I am in Treasure with this idea! The purpose of a "Stock the Bar" shower is obviously to stock the bride and groom's bar with cocktail-related gifts. This helps the newlyweds begin married life in a "spirited" way!

These invites included the main card with event information, a registry insert with all of the bride and groom's registry listings and also a cute poem about the bar items and finally the Maid of Honor had a great idea to include a RECIPE card! The guests will be receiving it with the invite giving them enough time to fill it out with their hold favorite recipe and then they take it to the shower ready to go!

This is an excellent alternative to providing the recipe cards at the shower itself, as the identical day the ladies attending may not have the recipe memorized. This is a sure heat way to earn great recipes from the "experienced" cooks! :)