They meet a young bride-to-be in a state of despair because she has lost their wedding bands right before the wedding.
They can not even be used in hyphenated words such as "bride-to-be".
Parties that honored the bride-to-be without these elements avoided that label.
Before the wedding ceremony, the bride-to-be takes a ritual bath and dresses in clothes provided by her maternal uncles, in which she is wed.
While proposing a toast to the bride-to-be is common at most bachelorette parties, some center on drinking games.
The interactions are generally negative, exposing the featured bride-to-be as uncontrollable, bullying, emotional and using whatever means necessary to get what she wants.
Dinners and cocktail parties, which provide comfortable opportunities for participants to talk or to give intimate advice to the bride-to-be, are common.
Formally, a party in honor of the bride-to-be is never hosted by the bride-to-be, although she may participate in its planning.
