Last Updated September 23rd, 2023 at 10:41 pm by Lisa
Today's forecast calls for bridal showers! Honor the Bride-To-Be with this complete guide of over 50+ Bridal Shower Food Ideas to host an elegant party plus planning tips.
Choose from creative, delicious recipes that range from healthy and light to cozy comfort food. One thing is for sure, everyone wants really good food at a beautiful wedding shower.
Host a tea party in the afternoon or try some of these bridal shower brunch ideas. Party food is a snap with finger sandwiches, drinks, and a few easy shower appetizers...
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Bridal Shower Menu Planning
Gather your guest list, and decide the time of day. Are you having a morning breakfast or brunch style party? Or an early afternoon lunch and tea party?
Select your menu of bridal shower food, and add your personal touch of glamour and elegance! And this collection will also work for future baby shower appetizers and main dishes.
Every good party starts with a reason, so choose a creative bridal shower theme that goes with the time of day. Usually, a bridal shower party is organized by the maid of honor with help from family members and close friends. Decide if you will host a sit-down meal, open house style, a truly formal meal, a high tea, or a causal buffet with grazing boards. Start planning these details first.
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- Time Of The Party
- Number of Guests
- Weather & Time of Year
- Outdoor or Indoors
- Bridal Shower Games
- Fresh Flowers & Decorations
- Party Room Space - Tables and Chairs
- Great Food!
- Recording Gift Opening
- Music - Spotify playlists
Traditionally, the maid of honor plans and hosts the shower with the help of family, great friends, and bridesmaids. Communication is key in keeping decorations and bridal shower food ideas on a budget.
Bridal Shower Food Ideas
Arrange a bridal shower snacks table with some or all of these classic ideas. Start with a list of wedding shower menu ideas, and have people sign up to bring a dish, help decorate, or clean up. These menu ideas are a perfect option for a baby shower or special occasions like a birthdays or even Mother's Day!
- Bridal Shower Appetizers: Easy Finger Foods, Dips, Vegetable Trays
- Sandwiches: Tea Sandwiches, Sandwich Trays with Pinwheels or Wraps
- Fresh Fruit Salads
- Breakfast Food & Brunch: Mini Pancakes, Yogurt Parfaits, Orange Juice, Mini Quiches, or Strata Breakfast Casserole
- Drinks: Iced Tea, Sweet Tea, a Mimosa Bar, or a Signature Cocktail
- Desserts: Strawberry Cake, Cookies, Lemon Bars, Homemade Candy
Tea Sandwich Ideas
- Buckingham Palace Cucumber Sandwiches "The Queen's Favorite"
- Smoked Salmon Sandwiches With Dill Spread
- Roast Beef With Cream Sauce
- Pear & Roquefort Butter
- Turkey, Avocado, Cheddar Cheese
- Egg Salad With Dill
- Smoked Ham Salad
- Goat Cheese & Minced Olives
- Herb Cream Cheese Tea Sandwiches
Make Ahead Appetizers
Choose one main course, a salad, and some finger foods. Choose some make ahead bridal shower recipes like cheese boards, a beautiful layered Sliced Cheese, Homemade Boursin with crackers, or Mini Cheese Balls!
Offer cool drinks like iced tea or lemonade, or a nice homemade Punch. And have some alcoholic beverages such as Champagne or Mimosas. A signature cocktail is also a nice idea. You can buy pink prosecco or champagne, or try my recipe in the printable recipe card below for Pink Mimosas!
Beautiful Finger Foods, Salads & Sandwiches
A fun way to host a shower is a potluck with bridal shower recipes. Have plenty of food options and enough space on a long table or counter for people to serve themselves. It's nice to serve dainty small cut portions of sandwiches on trays for people to try a selection of yummy items.
Pretty Deviled Eggs
Deviled eggs decorated with edible flowers and herbs are the perfect appetizer and shower food idea. Decorated like little spring baskets complete with grass and flowers!
Egg Salad
The best egg salad recipe starts with perfectly cooked eggs and fresh, quality, simple ingredients. It's mixed together into a rich creamy texture and loaded onto Rye or Pumpernickel sandwich bread with a pickle on top! There are endless different ways to enjoy a traditional egg salad. Add shredded chicken, and its chicken salad! It's a great way to use up eggs and works for family lunches, bridal, baby showers, or afternoon tea in the best egg salad sandwich ever.
Spring Crostini Appetizers
Spring garden crostini with edible fresh flowers and herbs is a spectacular easy appetizer, perfect for a tea, garden party, wedding shower, or Mother's Day. Toast baguette slices brushed with olive oil, layer a creamy herb spread, and garnish with beautiful edible herbs and flowers!
Cheese Truffles (Mini Cheese Balls)
Cheese Truffles are loaded with delicious flavors and a variety of toppings. Serve with crackers or pretzels for an easy appetizer and fun party food! Scooped in small bites, these mini cheese balls are rolled in fine herbs, toasted nuts, cheese cracker crumbs, seasoning mixes, or assorted grated cheeses. We all want appetizer ideas that look super impressive, can be prepped ahead, are very tasty, and everyone keeps reaching for during the party.
Easy Pasta Salad
An easy Pasta Salad and mayo-less side dish, is perfect for hot weather and holds at room temperature for outdoor picnics, a potluck, or your next Summer cookout! Cold pasta salads are easygoing party food. Add veggies like bell pepper, red onion, fresh herbs, and little cubes of mozzarella cheese all tossed in a light dressing.
Marinated Mozzarella Balls
Everyone loves cheese appetizers, and there is nothing easier than Marinated Mozzarella Balls on a gorgeous Charcuterie Board with some crackers, crusty bread, and drinks to get the party going. Take mini fresh mozzarella to a whole new level of deliciousness!
Watermelon Salad
Watermelon Salad is one of the most incredible refreshing summer fruit salads. It has a light citrus dressing, and fresh mint, topped with crumbled feta cheese. Serve this side dish for picnics, potlucks, and BBQ cookouts in a carved-out watermelon for the salad bowl!
Pizza Salad
A colorful Pizza Salad loaded with popular favorite pizza toppings like mini pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms, tangy pepperoncinis, tiny ripe tomatoes, and little balls of mozzarella cheese. This Italian salad pizza inspired recipe is healthy, low carb, drizzled with a creamy sun-dried tomato dressing with all the flavors of pizza we crave.
Easy Layered Cheese Appetizers
Gorgeous layered cheese appetizers with deli-style sliced cheeses and a creamy filling loaded with chopped nuts and dried fruit. Eat them as a snack or fancy finger food hors d'oeuvres! Keep the simple ingredients on hand for any potluck or holiday party, and assemble up to a day ahead. People will be fascinated by the elegant stacks, and they are so pretty on charcuterie or cheese board.
Caramel Apple Brie Appetizers
Need a fast easy appetizer for Halloween or Thanksgiving? Caramel Apple Brie Appetizers come together in minutes, and they are always wildly popular at Fall parties! If you like caramel apples, then you will love this scrumptious combination with creamy brie, the crunch of macadamia nuts, and tart-sweet dried cranberries. It is addictive.
BLT Lobster Sandwich
A BLT Lobster Sandwich recipe with succulent lobster, thick crispy applewood smoked bacon, golden grilled sourdough bread, and slathered with an easy dill-caper aioli sauce. Oh, and it won a 1rst Place Blue Ribbon at the Orange County Fair during a live cooking competition!
Crudités With Dip
Crudités with Green Goddess Dip is an easy appetizer. Serve veggie cups and a purple cabbage "bowl" for a unique relish tray at your party with sliced jicama, carrot sticks, green beans, celery and more.
Boursin Cheese
Boursin Cheese whips together in just minutes for an easy appetizer. One of the best ways to eat it is simply with toasted warm bread or crackers. What makes this herb cream cheese spread so good? The creamy texture from the whipping process of the cream cheese mixture, a grate of real parmesan cheese, and real herbs like fresh basil leaves.
Ham Salad
Ham Salad is a classic deli meat combo spread to go onto crackers for an easy appetizer. But it's most famous on sliced bread for a ham salad sandwich recipe! Oh, and it's a fantastic way to use up all that leftover holiday ham into beautiful little finger sandwiches for baby showers, bridal showers, and ladies luncheons.
Healthy Tuna Salad
A healthier Tuna Salad loaded with crunchy celery, creamy avocado, basil, capers, kalamata olives, pepperoncini's, and sun-dried tomatoes. One of my favorite things about this recipe is it can be rolled up in a tortilla wrap, scooped in colorful bell pepper bowls, or in mini-stuffed peppers, or inside lettuce leaves for low carb lunches! The mayonnaise is swapped out for avocado and Greek yogurt which becomes a more creamy texture than just mayo. Each bite is full of crunchy little tasty pops of Italian flavors, and it is so fresh and clean.
Tea Sandwiches
Elegant, dainty, crustless tea sandwiches are quintessential pinkies-up party food for a beautiful light lunch garden party, a bridal shower, or a Mother’s Day brunch. Today, we will cover everything from bread choices to filling options, the best ways to make tea sandwiches ahead, and how to create incredible savory flavors. Choose from over two dozen creative small bites from classic cucumber tea sandwiches from Buckingham Palace fit for a Queen, egg salad sandwiches, easy ham salad, and so much more.
Cobb Salad
The original Cobb Salad became famous in Los Angeles at the Brown Derby restaurant served with French Dressing loaded with chopped tomato, cubed chicken breasts, crumbled bacon, diced avocado, chopped eggs, and topped with Roquefort cheese. Now you can make this famous iconic salad at home exactly how it was made back in the day in the golden age of Hollywood, California.
7 Layer Salad
7 Layer Salad (aka Overnight Salad) is one of the most popular potluck dishes for picnics, a BBQ side for cookouts, or a summer side dish.
Vegetable Spring Rolls
Vegetable Spring Rolls with a peanut ginger dip sauce for a healthy vegetarian/vegan lunch. Eat the rainbow with gorgeous fresh veggies! These are also known as Vietnamese rice paper rolls. Each crunchy bite is filled with flavor, as the sauce adds just the right amount of savory sweet heat all wrapped up in a tender rice paper wrapper. Fresh spring rolls are an easy recipe to up your veggie game, rolling them is a breeze, and healthy is so stunningly beautiful.
Bridal Shower Brunch or Breakfast
An easy way to plan a bridal shower food menu is to serve a brunch buffet or full-fledged breakfast! Guests can sip coffee or tea, smoothies, or Mimosas, play games, and then the bride can open her shower gifts.
Irish Coffee
Just like they serve in the pubs of Ireland, this is a classic Irish Coffee recipe for any time of year! It can be made with a kick of Jameson Irish whiskey and or a dash of Baileys Irish Cream. Garnish with beautiful edible gold, shamrock sprinkles, or shaved chocolate to make this one fancy coffee drink. This original Irish coffee is a simple recipe for special dinners, St. Patrick's Day, or the holidays for an after dinner drink. Or one of the best ways to relax on chilly evenings is to get cozy with a Baileys Coffee in front of the fire...
Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole
Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole is an easy recipe with 15 minutes of prep time and bakes to golden hot in just 45 minutes. Put this in a baking dish a day ahead for relaxed weekends, special occasions, or during the holidays. Add in different breakfast meats like sausage, bacon, ham, cheeses, and even veggies to make it just the way you want. It will be an absolute hit in your home, with those brown and bubbly edges.
Pancake Muffins
Hand dip Pancake Muffins in warm maple syrup and serve for breakfast or brunch parties. Decorate with blueberries, raspberries, and mini chocolate chips!
Breakfast Egg Muffins
Breakfast food can be so incredibly easy with Egg Muffins! They can be made just the way you want them in a muffin pan with cooked breakfast meats like smoked ham, bacon, or crumbled sausage. Or fill them with a diced confetti of vegetables and top them with different herbs and cheeses. There are five egg muffins recipes for you to try, and it's so simple to make individual muffins for everyone in your family for weekday breakfast.
Pumpkin Spice Latte
Whip up a Pumpkin Spice Latte made with real fresh ingredients, and cozy Fall spices. Top your PSL with decadent toppings like whip cream and Fall sprinkles. You can swap in the plant-based milk you love, and add some good strong hot coffee or a shot of espresso.
Pumpkin Bread
A rich delicious Pumpkin Bread scratch recipe with warm Fall spices, fresh orange juice, and loaded with milk chocolate chips. This quick bread recipe comes together in minutes, with just a spatula and a bowl! Bake this as a classic pumpkin bread recipe or add nuts like pecans or walnuts and bake.
Yogurt Parfaits
Yogurt Parfaits are a great make-ahead breakfast or snack on the go. This recipe includes homemade granola and can be made the night before!
Green Smoothie Recipe
Full of green goodness and healing ingredients to hydrate, detox, and nourish you, this green smoothie recipe will start your day right! Made with sweet ripe pineapple, banana, spinach, tangy ginger, chia seeds, and freshly squeezed grapefruit juice, this is one of the best green smoothies recipes ever.
Steamed Hard Boiled Eggs
Steamed hard boiled eggs cook perfectly every time with no green ring. So easy to peel, the eggshells miraculously slip right off in minutes!
Homemade Granola
Granola made with quality ingredients is the best breakfast cereal, use this recipe in yogurt bowls, granola bars, cookies, and more!
Brie and Bacon Mini Quiche
Make Brie and Bacon Mini Quiches in muffin tins or small pie dishes. Serve for brunch or breakfast, the bacon and brie combination is scrumptious!
Oven Baked Hash Browns
Crispy Oven Hash Browns are baked in muffin tins using frozen or real potatoes. This is the easy way to make perfect hash browns without spending time at the stove. Skip the traditional cooking method of frying in a large skillet altogether. Both sides and the bottom of each one have a crispy exterior. And no messy stovetop to clean.
Shower Drinks and Signature Cocktails
For mid afternoon bridal shower food ideas, be sure to add some drinks and signature cocktails for the wedding of your best friend! It's a great option to have someone provide beverage and cocktail service during the shower. The easiest way to do this is to have a tray of drinks and bring them to guests or refill them during the party with a pitcher.
Party Punch
Through the years, this cherished holiday recipe has been at so many parties, bridal showers, and it is also is one of the best Christmas punch recipes ever! It is great to have a non alcoholic punch along with cocktails. You can mix this festive drink inside a beverage container or large punch bowl in a matter of minutes, it just has 4 ingredients and a garnish. The tangy cranberries go so well with the lime flavors, and the ginger ale adds a sparkling finish. Swap in raspberries in the Summer!
Strawberry Cocktails
Strawberry Cocktails are wonderful for romantic date nights, Valentine's Day, or cocktail party celebrations. Oh, and these are keto, low carb, low sugar, and low-calorie, now how can you beat that? Enjoy every sip of these summer cocktails that don't have processed sugar or simple syrup.
Champagne Cocktails
Chic Champagne Cocktails glitter with real gold and bubbles of fine Champagne or prosecco for New Year's Eve or holiday celebrations like a Christmas party! Everyone wants bubbly drink recipes that sparkle for the festive season. Ring in the new year and toast to all the luck in the world with an elegant cocktail in hand.
Authentic Mojito Recipe
Straight from Cuba, this Mojito recipe is 100% authentic. Learn the real ingredients from Cuban bartenders in Havana. And what makes these famous cocktails the real deal! Classic mojitos are the very essence of beach cocktails. Rum drinkers around the world have treasured them for centuries. These bar drinks have quenched thirsty travelers and people on vacation for decades. The recipe card will scale up to make batch cocktails for a pitcher of mojitos!
Autumn Aperol Spritz
A taste of Fall in every sip, these Aperol Spritz cocktails have cider, Aperol, and fresh citrus juice topped with prosecco or Champagne bubbles. These refreshing drinks are great for brunch, happy hours, Friendsgiving, and Thanksgiving.
Spicy Bloody Marys
One sip of these Spicy Bloody Marys, and you will never want the bottled mix again! These have the right amount of heat, and bolder spices than boring tomato juice mixes. Fire-roasted grilled chilies, onions, and fresh ripe garden tomatoes create different flavors that are complex and extraordinary. Set up the ultimate bloody mary bar with classic garnishes and favorite toppings like crunchy celery, beef sticks, pepperoncini's, pickled green beans, stuffed olives, and dill pickle spears.
Easy Limeade Margaritas
Limeade Margaritas have three simple ingredients mixed in a pitcher on ice. And there is no blender or cocktail shaker for these easy drinks! You won't believe how good these pitcher margaritas taste for summertime picnics or cookouts, Cinco de mayo, tailgating, or pour a big batch on game day and serve with delicious Mexican food.
Blueberry Lemonade
Ice cold Blueberry Lemonade captures Summer in every sip, it is made in minutes with homemade blueberry syrup, fresh lemon juice, and honey.
Party Ice Bucket
Make a DIY Ice Bucket for your party and add instant style to your celebration. Chill beverages, wine, or champagne bottles to fit your party theme! Have fun and get creative using flowers, herbs, sliced fruit, or greenery in this gorgeous party wine chiller.
Fireball Punch
Fireball Thanksgiving Punch with orange, apple cider, and Fireball whisky. Serve Fall "big batch cocktails" for Friendsgiving & Thanksgiving. And is great to serve a crowd for birthdays and showers.
Hibiscus Cocktails
Hibiscus cocktails have under 100 calories each, are low in carbohydrates, vegan, low sugar keto, and gluten-free! Dried hibiscus flowers create a wonderful gorgeous bright color and the floral flavors go so well in these refreshing drinks. Mix up these pretty sippers to enjoy for outdoor parties, picnics, bridal showers, or even the holiday season without the guilt of sugar, carbs, and calories.
St. Germain Cocktails
St. Germain Cocktails have notes of floral flavor with Elderflower liqueur, Prosecco or Champagne, tropical tea syrup, and a splash of club soda over crushed ice. Pour these sparkling Spring and Summer cocktails for brunch, Easter, a birthday party, or bridal showers. St Germain spritz drinks are refreshing, delicious, and absolutely gorgeous.
Sweet Treats and Desserts
Trays of small baked goods are a great choice for a party. Slice cakes and bars into small portions and bites, and avoid desserts that need a lot of time to serve. Also on hot days avoid anything that melts. No one wants melted chocolate ice cream dripping everywhere!
Fresh Strawberry Cake
You can taste the real strawberry flavor in this fresh strawberry scratch cake, as it skips ingredients like food coloring and jello gelatin and uses strawberry jam and real fresh strawberries! Use this recipe to bake a strawberry layer cake, a sheet cake, or even cupcakes. Then spread on the strawberry buttercream frosting with its beautiful pink color on every layer, and decorate with sweet juicy strawberries, it's the real deal.
Pineapple Coconut Madeleines
Classic French madeleines are small signature shell shaped butter cakes that are absolutely delightful. Pack them for picnics, in school lunch boxes, or enjoy as snacks with a cup of tea or coffee. Sometimes madeleines have additions like fruit or nuts. These have fresh pineapple pieces and sweet coconut to create a nice crumb and incredible tropical flavors. There are also top baking tips and detailed instructions to make these famous French tea cakes classic just like the bakeries in France.
S'more Cookie Dough Truffles
S'more Cookie Dough Truffles are an easy no-bake dessert candy with chocolate chips, graham crackers, and mini marshmallows just like a campfire s'mores!
Raspberry Scones
White Chocolate Raspberry Scones filled with white chocolate, studded with sweet raspberries, and drizzled with vanilla icing! Soft, light, and fluffy because of the cream.
Peach Cheesecake Pie (No-Bake)
Peach Cheesecake Pie is a 30-minute no-bake recipe with a crisp graham cracker crust, sweet whipped filling, and juicy summer peaches!
Cake Mix Cookies
Cake Mix Cookies are an easy cookie recipe baked in 11 minutes and with just 4 ingredients. Top with candies, sprinkles, or chocolate chips!
Caramel Apple Dip
Make a Caramel Apple Dip with crisp green apples, salted caramel sauce, and crushed Health bars. A beloved recipe for potlucks, holiday parties, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and all through the Autumn apple season.
Palmiers
Palmiers are airy flaky crisp French cookies with only 2 ingredients. This sweet treat easy dessert bake is divine any time of day!
Coconut-Lime Lemon Bars
A tropical version of traditional lemon bars, this lemon bar recipe has lemon-lime filling and a toasted coconut shortbread cookie crust. The buttery shortbread crust in these Coconut-Lime Lemon Bars gets toasty golden brown, and is topped with tart lemon and lime filling with sweet coconut, and real lime juice, what could be better in a fresh fruit lemon dessert!
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50+ Bridal Shower Food Ideas + Pink Grapefruit Mimosa Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 bottle Prosecco or Champagne 25 ounce/750 ml
- 3 cups fresh grapefruit juice 3 whole grapefruit
Instructions
- Squeeze fresh grapefruits using a hand juicer or electric juicer. Chill in refrigerator. Or buy a container of grapefruit juice.
- Chill the bottle of Prosecco or Champagne. Pour in half grapefruit juice, and top with chilled Prosecco or Champagne. Sip and enjoy!
Notes
Prosecco, Champagne, or Dry Sparkling Wine
Some stores even offer pink champagnes and sparkling wines, so that is an option. If you are making your own grapefruit mimosas, a good Prosecco from Italy is perfect. You can certainly splash out and get French Champagne too! White sparkling wine works as well, it is sometimes sweeter than Prosecco or Champagne.Grapefruit Juice
Press fresh grapefruit juice using a citrus juicer or use store-bought grapefruit juice. Chill the juice in the fridge and get it nice and cold before serving. 1 real grapefruit yields approximately 1 cup of juice.Wedding Shower Sample Menu Inspiration
- Bridal Shower Appetizers: Easy Finger Foods, Dips, Vegetable Trays
- Sandwiches: Tea Sandwiches, Sandwich Trays with Pinwheels or Wraps
- Fresh Fruit Salads
- Breakfast Food & Brunch: Mini Pancakes, Yogurt Parfaits, Orange Juice, Mini Quiches, or Strata Breakfast Casserole
- Drinks: Iced Tea, Sweet Tea, a Mimosa Bar, or a Signature Cocktail
- Desserts: Strawberry Cake, Cookies, Lemon Bars, Homemade Candy
Perfect timing to see this post! My daughter has a friend getting married and there are so many fantastic ideas here! This is definitely my go to party planning site!
I am so glad to hear that Seanna! Your daughter is exactly why I put this collection together. Thanks for letting us know and have a great Summer!
So many great ideas, we are going to make your pink mimosas, so pretty!