I know lots of people getting married this year, and recently got to talk to a lovely friend of mine about her upcoming bridal shower and bachelorette party, and (understandably) her fears about them. For some reason our culture is all about embarrassing the bride-to-be and/or encouraging her to make a fool of herself, and my friend is hoping to avoid the ridiculousness (and luckily for her,
Magic Mike won't be in theaters in September). One of her greatest fears is that her shower will turn out like the #1 on this list, so in her honor, today's top 5 covers the most memorable pop-culture bridal showers.
5. Lorelai on Gilmore Girls
Although I can't find any Google Images to prove it, I distinctly remember watching an episode where the town of Stars Hollow throws Lorelai a bridal shower for her upcoming marriage to Rory's dad Christopher, where she sat in the gazebo surrounded by gifts, including a Hello Kitty toaster, which I thought was amazing. I can't remember anything else about the party except that awesome toaster, which is how Lorelai lands at the number 5 spot on the list.
4. Monica on Friends
When searching for bridal showers to add to the list, I knew I would able to turn to
Friends to help me out. In true 90s sitcom fashion, Rachel and Phoebe wait until the last minute to throw together an awesome party for Monica by calling random people from her address book as guests. And then forget to invite Monica.
3. Hannah in Made of Honor
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| I told you: kilts. |
This rom-com starring Patrick Dempsey as the maid of honor in the wedding of the girl he loves took the year 2008 by storm. Put a handsome guy in a kilt during a wedding in Ireland and women everywhere are going to be watching. Dempsey played a character named Tom who was given all the maid of honor duties and attempted to throw his best friend Hannah the perfect bridal shower. Unfortunately he was tricked by a jealous bridesmaid into booking the wrong kind of entertainment, thinking the woman was a psychic but turned out to be selling something a little more intimate, if you catch my drift, thus embarrassing Hannah in front of her family and friends. And her oblivious grandmother, who loved all the things the woman sold after mistaking them for something else.
2. Lillian in Bridesmaids
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| Giant cookie and chocolate fondue fountain. |
This is quite possible the most epic bridal shower I have ever seen. I'm assuming that Kate Middleton had a pretty spectacular bridal shower, if British royals celebrate such things, but the one Helen threw for Lillian was over the top. Live butterflies in the invitations, horseback entrances, a couture Paris theme - not to mention they gave out puppies as favors. Puppies! And to top it all off, jilted maid of honor and protagonist Annie finally explodes after Helen takes over all her responsibilities, ends up in the chocolate fountain and is asked to step down as maid of honor. Not the best bridal shower, but definitely one of the most memorable.
1. Lily on How I Met Your Mother
This show is pretty hilarious as it is - how could it not, with Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segal in the cast - but seriously, this is the funniest episode I have ever seen. Robin asks womanizer Barney what to get Lily as a gift and he suggests something highly innapropriate (let's just say the woman at the
Made of Honor party would have been selling them) so Robin buys it as a joke. Then at the party, when she realizes how inappropriate it is, she switches the card with that of another gift - which just so happens to be her grandmother's hand-held sewing machine. The mix-up is awkwardly hysterical.
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