Choosing recycled eco-friendly cardboard or a clear favor box is a creative way to show off your colorful French macarons.

Don't try to squeeze more macarons than needed, be sure that you leave enough space so that their form and texture won't be affected.

After filling these boxes with macarons, tie a satin ribbon around it, and voilá! Your party favors are complete.

Advice To The Bride

Once you find the perfect location for the Bridesmaids' Luncheon, make it meaningful and completely about the girls. This is one event that is not all about the bride and groom. As the name sug...

As a host of a scrapbooking shower, the usually-stress inducing job of coming up with activities or games to play is taken care of. You’re going to build a keepsake book; you just need to get everything ready.Buy a small scrapbook. A smaller siz...

While all the guests are busy creating special pages for her wedding scrapbook, what is the bride going to do? She can make the title page for the book using the wedding shower invitation or a photograph with her fiancé as inspiration.Give her time to take a photograph with each guest to insert later in the scrapbook.

Since everyone will be busy with scrapbooking, keep the menu simple with foods that guests can nibble on when they have a free hand. To put a scrapbooking twist on plain finger sandwiches, cut them using cookie cutters in wedding-related shapes. Keeping with the bridal shower theme, serve cupcakes with handmade toppers crafted from scrapbook embellishments.

This is not a fancy shower, so traditional invitations aren’t necessary. Use playful scrapbook-themed invites or simple flat cards in colors of the wedding. If you’re feeling creative, make your own invitations using scrapbook materials and...

Keep in mind while you're planning your menu, that at a bridal shower, guests are mostly female. Also remember that women tend to eat lighter fare. Most showers take place early afternoon, so the menu should consist of brunch or lunch type items. Mi...

Creating a recipe book at a wedding shower is mostly a guest-led activity. As with all hosting responsibilities, however, you will need to provide a few things.recipe book: The book can be store bought or handmade, simple or elaborate. Just make sure...

If you buy a recipe book, it probably has dividers for different types of dishes. For a handmade book, however, you will need to determine what these are.

Since this wedding shower activity depends on guests’ participation, make sure the invitation includes complete details about the event. Print on the invitation a request for a favorite recipe, and include a matching recipe card for each guest to bring with them. Find many themed options online like this fun invitation from Broadway Paper, which features brightly colored kitchen tools.