Any suggestions or experience you can share with doing a virtual bridal shower??

When I got married last summer, some family pulled together a virtual bridal shower for me through Facebook. A private group was created for myself and all of the guests invited to join, and we had fun with different bridal themed posts, online games, etc! Anyone who purchased gifts was also able to have them shipped to me. I would post photos each week and thank everyone for giving. It wasn't what I would have imagined a bridal shower to be, but it was the best for the times we're living in. It also gave so many the chance who live far away to join in, who otherwise couldn't have in person!

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Good points! I will definitely have a moderator!

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Hi Vinod,

great, thank you!

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Thanks for the tip! I will definitely look into it with my MOH and bridesmaids.

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Hi Catilyn,

thank you! That sounds encouraging.

Virtual bridal shower is a nice idea to have for sharing moments with the ladies and setting a registry online for them to get you gifts shipped to your home to open and from whom. The packaging may not be wrapped up nice though its the thought put into it. Many of my cousins have done this so they have not left travelled with anything making it lighter on their end. Amazon has a bridal registry as some sites you do like to add on as well for your family and friends to shop their choice.

During other parts unpin yourself though so everyone can talk and visit

Make sure you pin yourself while you are doing your gift opening. People want to see the gifts and older ones might not know how to pin you so pinning yourself for everyone is a good solution.


Have someone handling the tech stuff because people might lose connections a lot during the shower and keep needing to be let back in.
If you make your zoom without a password you will have less to deal with with older ones putting the code in the wrong spots.
Consider muting all for a time during your shower. Some people are crazy loud with their ‘awes’ and it’s crazy annoying to hear someone full blast in the mic saying awe 47 times per gift lol

We had to do a virtual baby shower for my MOH in October (I know you're asking about a bridal shower, but this is along the same lines) and it was quite entertaining and fun! We still played games, she opened a few gifts, showed us what the baby room looked like, and we were all able to catch up with one another. It obviously would have been nice to have an in-person shower, but doing it online was a great alternative.

I think it really depends on what the purpose of the shower is. If you just wanna catch up with your girlfriends, just have a video chat with drinks. If you want to make it a thing, there are a ton of games online you can play like Codenames. I usually use the phone as my video call and my laptop for the games so that you can "react" in person and see each other's faces while using the bigger and better laptop screen for the game.