Kitchen Party
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- Aprons and more!
- At Home Spa Day
- Bottom Drawer
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- Bucket List
- CD of Fave Songs
- Champagne Lunch
- Cocktail Names
- Confetti Balloons
- Cookie Bar
- Couples Recipe
- Daddys Girl
- Date Jars
- Dinner Ice Breakers
- DIY Photobooth
- Dress up Idea
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- Facebook Page
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- French Polish
- Fun Facts about the Bride
- Garden Hen Party
- Get Crafty
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- Hot Chocolate Bar
- How We Met
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- Ice Cream Shoppe
- Inspiration board
- Instagram Bunting
- Kiss Frame
- Kitchen Party
- Knickers
- Laminated Placemat
- Make Your Own Flower Crown
- Matching PJ's
- Memory Box
- Message In A Bottle
- Mimosa Bar
- Mini Engagement Rings
- Mini Make Over
- Morning After Photos
- Movie Night
- Music Festival
- Non alcoholic hen ideas
- Novelty Cake
- Open Air Cinema
- Open When
- Personalised Keepsake
- Personalised Shot Glasses
- Photo Challenge
- Photo Collage
- Photo Frame Gift
- Pimp Your Prosecco
- Pink Champagne
- Puzzle Keepsake
- Request on Radio
- Shame the Bride
- Sign The Champagne
- Something Borrowed
- Spa Day
- Strawberry Margarita Jello Shots
- The Hen Book
- The Hen Rules
- This is Your Life
- Time Capsule
- Travel Goody Bag
- Wedding Advent Calender
- Wedding Predictions
Nice Ideas
- A Year of Firsts
- Advice Notebook
- Aprons and more!
- At Home Spa Day
- Bottom Drawer
- Bridal T-Shirts
- Bucket List
- CD of Fave Songs
- Champagne Lunch
- Cocktail Names
- Confetti Balloons
- Cookie Bar
- Couples Recipe
- Daddys Girl
- Date Jars
- Dinner Ice Breakers
- DIY Photobooth
- Dress up Idea
- Dressing Gowns
- Facebook Page
- Flickr Album
- French Polish
- Fun Facts about the Bride
- Garden Hen Party
- Get Crafty
- Going on a hen
- Grooms Message
- Hen Magazine
- Hen Party Abroad
- Hen Party Accessories
- Hen Party Film
- Hen Party Gifts
- Hen Party Goody Bags
- Hen Party Invitations
- Hen Party Playlist
- Hen Party Poem
- Hen Party Speed Dating
- Hen Party Summer Selfie ideas
- Hen Party Survival Kit
- Hen Party Video
- Hen Slumber Party
- Hen TV
- Honeymoon Party
- Honk the Horn
- Host With The Most
- Hot Chocolate Bar
- How We Met
- Ice Breaker Questions
- Ice Cream Shoppe
- Inspiration board
- Instagram Bunting
- Kiss Frame
- Kitchen Party
- Knickers
- Laminated Placemat
- Make Your Own Flower Crown
- Matching PJ's
- Memory Box
- Message In A Bottle
- Mimosa Bar
- Mini Engagement Rings
- Mini Make Over
- Morning After Photos
- Movie Night
- Music Festival
- Non alcoholic hen ideas
- Novelty Cake
- Open Air Cinema
- Open When
- Personalised Keepsake
- Personalised Shot Glasses
- Photo Challenge
- Photo Collage
- Photo Frame Gift
- Pimp Your Prosecco
- Pink Champagne
- Puzzle Keepsake
- Request on Radio
- Shame the Bride
- Sign The Champagne
- Something Borrowed
- Spa Day
- Strawberry Margarita Jello Shots
- The Hen Book
- The Hen Rules
- This is Your Life
- Time Capsule
- Travel Goody Bag
- Wedding Advent Calender
- Wedding Predictions

Why have a Kitchen Party?
Many brides don’t realise kitchen parties are a great way to have a night before the wedding for mothers, in-laws and older relatives without needing to ask them to the Hen night where they may not be comfortable.
What is a Kitchen Party?
For those that don’t know what a kitchen party is, it is a get together of the bride's female relations, future in-laws, older neighbours, close family friends and the brides own close friends.
It is usually held in the bride's aunts house, or in a neighbours house. Staple refreshments include tea and coffee, cake, biscuits, crisps and dips, where more adventurous kitchen parties also provide wine, beer and vodka.
Each guest coming to the kitchen party brings a gift for the bride for her kitchen. The original reason for this was to bring a gift for the bride that would help make her a better wife.
Cookbooks, a good saucepan, an apron etc. Luckily those days have passed and it is now to give the bride something nice for her kitchen and to have a bit of fun, as will be explained below. Limits on what to spend are often enforced but 10 euro is the norm.
In action
After a few cups of tea and glasses of wine, the ladies all gather around and the bride sits in the centre blindfolded. One by one the presents are passed to her and she has to open them, feel them and try and guess what each is. One of the guests writes down all the brides comments as she tries to guess….for example in the case of a rolling pin she might exclaim ‘its huge’ and everyone gives a little giggle at these double entendres.
When all the presents are open all the quotes are read back to the group and it is good clean fun that gives everyone a laugh. Kitchen parties are associated with older relations and friends, but often it is the older relations that can shock everyone with their sly jokes and innuendo.
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