Bridal Shower
Theme Ideas
 
Since both Lorie and Bob have lived on their own, it is necessary to come up with a theme that won't take away from their wedding registry.
I know Lorie loves bath products and we can do a stress free shower theme.  We can ask everyone to bring something for Lorie to help her relax before the wedding in addition to the present they purchase for her and Bob; i.e., moisturizes, bubble bath, aromatherapy, candles, etc.  This is a fairly inexpensive gift they can buy for her in addition to what they get from the registry. 
We can have everyone keep their special relaxing gift until Lorie is done opening her presents and have everyone walk up to her individually and give Lorie their wedding advice, marriage advice or best wishes, and then give Lorie the special stress free presents themselves at the same time.  This would be very meaningful and a lot of fun!!
On their invitations we can ask everyone to bring a gift to help Lorie relax as well as  some "words of wisdom" to help Lorie get through this big day!!  It can be either a few sentences or a poem, maybe a song or just a saying.  Have everyone in advance write down what they want to stay to her and give her a copy of what they tell her so she can treasurer these words forever.
I got this off a bridal shower website:

One woman sang her Irish ditty on marriage; another read out two romantic poems; some women brought "wise words my mother told me"; one woman played a lovely sentimental song; and others brought sayings they liked. (My offering to the bride-to-be was "Give a man a fish and he'll be fed for a day, but TEACH a man to fish and you can send him away for a whole weekend!") Just before present opening we were each asked to give our "words of wisdom" and the total result was funny, clever and inspirational. I think the trick was that the request was made on the invitation so we had time to prepare our words (submitted by a reader)
Other Themes we can go with that goes along with the Stressfree Shower:

- Soothing Shower
- Relaxing Shower
- Amenities Shower
- Pamper the Bride Shower
New Note:
I found these two items on another bridal website:

Advice Shower
My maid-of-honor threw me an advice shower.  In the invitations everyone got a "post-it note" in which they had to write a piece of advice for me and my new husband. Their gift then had to correlate with the advice.

Box Of Wisdom 
Have each guest fill out an index card upon arrival with words of   wisdom/advice or a relevant Bible verse.  Place each card in a recipe-type box as a gift to the bride - for a "rainy" day or any day when she needs a lift!

I thought these were good ideas and maybe we could include an index card or special piece of paper with the invitation for people to write down what they want to tell Lorie and have a scrapbook at the shower so after they tell Lorie, we can paste the piece of paper or index card in the scrapbook!!  I think it is good to give people time to come up with something thoughtful and helpful and think it may be better if we let them prepare their thought ahead of time.  We can send along with the invitation to everyone all the same size paper but send all different kinds of paper as well as various colors.
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