Bridal showers and bachelorette parties often get lumped together, but they call for pretty different gifts. Here's how to tell them apart.
Bridal showers tend to be more traditional, often with family and older relatives in attendance. Gifts here usually lean toward the practical or sentimental: home goods, registry items, or something meaningful for the new chapter ahead. It's not usually the place for anything too cheeky.
Bachelorette parties are a different story. This is the crowd for humor, novelty, and gifts that get a big reaction. A funny plush pillow, a joke gift for the group to pass around, or party favors with a wink of humor all land well here, since the whole point of the night is celebrating the bride with her closest friends in a more relaxed, no-filter setting.
If you're attending both, it's worth packing two very different gifts: something sweet and useful for the shower, and something that'll get a laugh for the bachelorette. Matching the gift to the event is the easiest way to make sure it actually lands the way you want it to.