We must start this blog by asking the question:
“How many bachelorette parties have you gone to that were a smashing success?
We suspect that they all start off fun and fabulous, but by the end of the night, someone’s catty, someone’s drunk, someone’s lost, someone’s puking, and/or someone’s pissy… Oh, you’ve been there, done that? Welcome to the past.
You see, in the past, the bachelorette party was a recipe for disaster.
Ingredients:
1 bride-to-be,
1 maid-of-honor (usually a sister or best friend),
3-5 college roommates (sorority sisters may be substituted here),
4-6 high school teammates, elementary school pals, or pre-school playdates
2-4 work colleagues
(For extra spice, sprinkle in a few female in-laws-to-be)
Mix well for several hours. To make the ingredients really bond, have them sip cocktails through a male anatomy straw. Better yet, expose the bride to a meat market (aka night club), so that you can throw her “one last time” to the very wolves she is trying to avoid in the first place by getting married.
To really heat things up, cram all attendees into a small limo (aka pressure cooker) and make them wear matching pink tee shirts while sipping cheap champagne. Or worse, have them participate in a bachelorette scavenger hunt. Women really love that.
ENOUGH! Enough already. No wonder the limo has to stop several times to let the bride vomit. Is THIS what you want at your bachelorette party? We doubt it.
What do women really want? We want to talk to each other. To relax together. To be pampered. To eat well. To shop. (We’re really trying to avoid the Cyndi Lauper song here, but there’s no way to around it…) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FU-UN!
Fun. Even more so than the engagement party or bridal shower, the bachelorette party sets the stage for the entire wedding. Will it be fun or boring? Will it be tacky or classic? While the wedding is the celebration of the love between the bride and groom, the bachelorette party is the celebration of the love and friendship between the bride and her closest family and friends. Shouldn’t this event be as spectacular as the wedding itself?
We believe that it should. And so we’ve built an entire company around the potential for such decadent, spectacular, girly fun. A place that our founder, Michelle Girasole, wishes existed for the last two dozen or so parties she’s been to since her own. (On that note, when she married Rich, the love of her life, in 1996, her best friend and maid of honor, Kris, threw her the bachelorette party of the century. All the girls had a great time, and no one puked, so it was fun, but not all girls are so lucky. ) This blog post is just the beginning of a lifetime of smiles on the faces of women everywhere. We hope you enjoy Platinum Bachelorettes as much as we do.
With love,
Team Fresh and The Platinum Bachelorettes
Platinum Bachelorettes 