Bride squad kit, in one order
Sashes, shirts, tumblers, tattoos and everything else the weekend needs, sorted by the job you are trying to tick off rather than by the aisle it would sit in. Start with how many of you there are.
Three ways in
You arrive at this either with a head count, with a list, or with nothing but a date. Each of those is a different first click, and all three end in the same cart.
Six in a rented house and twelve at a beach are two different orders. The pack counts on every card are printed before the price, so the arithmetic is done before you click.
Sashes, shirts, tumblers, tattoos, one balloon wall. Each of those is a page here with everything that answers it and nothing that does not.
Then start with the longer reads. They are written around the six weeks before the weekend, in the order the decisions come up.
The nine shelves
Something the squad wears, something it drinks from, something that goes on a wall, something that goes home in a bag. That is the fork, and you can answer it before you know the theme.
Worn across the shoulder
95 pieces · from $3.92Worn all weekend
55 pieces · from $9.49Worn on the head
117 pieces · from $4.99Drunk from
131 pieces · from $4.99Goes on a wall
126 pieces · from $3.99Goes home in a bag
134 pieces · from $4.48Worn small
150 pieces · from $3.99Played
52 pieces · from $6.99Slept in
106 pieces · from $3.99Nine shelves, and we hold all nine to the Bride Squad approach: the pack count, the size and the colour on every card, and the price for the whole pack rather than for one piece of it.
Reached for first
Eight pieces from across the shelves, in the order they leave the shop.
sash
4.8 · 2.1K ratings
$18.99
shirt
4.6 · 1.3K ratings
$17.99
sunglasses
4.7 · 752 ratings
$11.99
wine glass
4.8 · 4K ratings
$22.95
balloon
4.3 · 2.2K ratings
$13.99
tote bag
4.8 · 4.6K ratings
$14.99
makeup bag
4.7 · 4.9K ratings
$3.99
party game
4.6 · 3.3K ratings
$9.99
robe
4.3 · 14.4K ratings
$11.99
tiara and headband
4.7 · 1.5K ratings
$7.17
shirt
4.8 · 571 ratings
$19.99
sunglasses
4.8 · 727 ratings
$15.99
drinkware
4.6 · 3.8K ratings
$39.95
backdrop
4.8 · 1K ratings
$14.99
temporary tattoo
4.7 · 2.7K ratings
$7.99
hair tie
4.8 · 2.9K ratings
$5.99
party game
4.7 · 1.4K ratings
$13.99
robe
4.5 · 9.3K ratings
$11.98
sash
4.6 · 1.5K ratings
$9.98
shirt
4.5 · 397 ratings
$10.98
sunglasses
4.6 · 657 ratings
$9.99
tumbler
4.8 · 3.5K ratings
$18.95
balloon
4.3 · 983 ratings
$12.99
favour
4.8 · 1.3K ratings
$16.95
Every one of these stands in the Bride Squad lineup, and the nine shelves above hold the rest.
The four numbers that decide it
Four numbers throw out more of this catalogue than any colour palette does. Get them right six weeks out and the rest of the order is shopping.
Order for two more people than the group chat says. Somebody brings a sister, somebody flies in on the Saturday, and a sash left over is cheaper than a sash short.
Shirts need a size for every person and sashes do not. Ask for shirt sizes six weeks out, because the answer that arrives two days before the flight is the one nobody wants.
A pack of twelve tumblers usually costs less per cup than two packs of six. Where a shelf here has both, the price per piece is worked out on the card.
Balloons, banners and backdrops are bought once for the room, not once per person. Counting those per head is the most common way this order doubles.
Those four numbers decide what reaches the Bride Squad list and what stays off it, whatever a search calls bachelorette supplies.
Asked for by name
Each of these is a phrase typed in full before a weekend, and each has a page behind it with the pieces that answer it.
The piece every photograph from the weekend has in it, and the only one nobody has to be measured for. Sets here are cut for seven more often than any other number, one bride and six others, which is why a party of nine buys a twelve-pack rather than a seven and two spares out of a second pack.
The slowest part of the order and the one to start first. Nearly every shirt here is printed when it is ordered, so the clock starts when the last person in the group answers with a size, and the person who wears the largest one is the person to ask before anybody else.
Packed and priced like favours rather than like eyewear: ten to a bag, on from the first photograph on the Friday, and two pairs short by the Sunday morning. Order the head count and two more, and put the money you saved into the caps instead.
The one part of the order bought for the room rather than per person. A garland across the back of a sofa swallows far more balloons than the photograph suggests, the kits are sold expecting you to pop a few learning the strip, and counting any of it per head is how a decoration budget doubles.
The present handed over when somebody is asked to be a bridesmaid, and one of the few that goes on being used afterwards. It carries an initial and it holds two nights of wash kit, which is why there are more of these here than of anything else worn small.
Before you order
None of them takes a minute, and each one is a mistake somebody makes every wedding season.
A photograph of one sash is usually a pack of twelve. The price under it is the price of the pack, and the price per person is the number that decides.
A shirt listed as one size is rarely one size for everybody. Where a run is given, the range is on the card, and where it gives nothing, we say that too.
Tattoos, printed cups and paper favours are used up over one weekend. A robe or a tumbler with a name on it goes home in the case. Split the budget on that line before you split it on colour.
A set photographed with a bride sash and eleven squad sashes may be twelve squad sashes. The counts printed here come from the pack rather than from the picture.
A balloon arch packs flat and a glass tumbler does not. If the party is a flight away, weight and breakage decide more than the theme does.
Rose gold, blush and champagne are three names for a wide range of pinks. The swatch on each card is painted from the colour name we were given, so read it next to the picture.
Who is behind the shelves
Bachelorette kit gets bought in one go by one person who is already organising eight other people. That is a harder job than it sounds, and it is the only job Bride Squad does.
Everything here had to clear three things before it reached a shelf: a photograph that shows what actually arrives in the parcel, a pack count that makes sense next to the price, and a size or a capacity printed somewhere other than the marketing line. A surprising amount of party kit fails the third one.
What that leaves is nine shelves of things a squad wears, drinks from, sticks on a wall or takes home. No shelf here holds a wedding dress, a groom gift or a birthday banner with the age swapped out, however often a search calls those bachelorette supplies.
Longer reads
Four pieces on the arithmetic: what eight people need, what a sash pack contains, what survives a flight, and how to spend the favour budget so it is not thrown away on the Sunday.
One list, in the order the things get bought, with the count beside each line. The pieces that need a size from every person come first, because those are the ones that hold the whole order up.
A photograph of seven satin bands says almost nothing about what arrives. One says BRIDE and six say something else, or all twelve say the same thing, and only one of those leaves the bride visible in a bar.
Glass and hold luggage are the whole problem. Everything else on this list packs flat, weighs nothing and arrives in one piece, which is why a weekend that involves a plane looks different from one that involves a car.
Half of what goes in a welcome bag is used up by Sunday and half of it travels home. Deciding which half you are buying before you spend is the whole of this.
Written by the Bride Squad desk out of the shelves themselves: the counts, the sizes and the sums that go with them.
Questions people ask
Five of them. Longer answers live on the shelf pages and on the party-job pages.
Every buying button on this site opens the piece you were looking at, in the pack size shown, at our retail partner. That is where the payment and the delivery happen, and where the price you see is the price you pay.
The wide button at the foot opens the whole catalogue at once, which is quicker when you are still deciding between two shelves.
Six weeks for anything that needs a size, which on this site means the shirts, the tanks and a handful of the robes. Those are printed or picked to order, so the clock starts when the last person in the group answers rather than when you press the button.
Two to three weeks is enough for everything else. Sashes, sunglasses, balloons and tattoos need no size and no decision from anybody but you.
Yes. Where a piece arrives as a pack, the figure on the card is the figure for the pack and the count is printed above it, so a set of twelve sashes and a single sash are never being compared as though they cost the same.
Where a piece is sold on its own, the count is left off the card rather than printed as one.
One each of anything worn, plus two. Somebody brings a sister, somebody flies in late, and a spare sash costs less than a missing one.
One of anything that goes on a wall. Balloons, banners and backdrops are bought for the room, and counting those per head is the fastest way to double the order.
They do, and this site updates them on a schedule set out on the methods page rather than at the moment you happen to open a card. Between two updates a figure can move.
Whatever the checkout says is the figure you will pay. Where it disagrees with a card here, the checkout wins and we would rather you knew that before you clicked than after.
Balloons are the one thing in this shop with a federal warning written about them. An uninflated balloon and a burst one are the shape and the size a small child inhales, and the Child Safety Protection Act requires latex balloon packaging to carry a choking warning about children under eight for that reason. A room decorated for a party is a room with popped balloons on the floor by midnight. Pick up the pieces as they burst rather than in the morning, keep the uninflated ones in the bag until an adult is inflating them, and if there is a child under eight in the house, mylar and foil do the same job without the same risk.
The weekend list
Every pack count, size and colour in the Bride Squad rundown sits behind this button, with the figures from our last update against each one.
Fetti Rose Gold Glitter Kit
In My Engaged Era Wine Glass
Decorations Balloon Boxes White- Transparent Block
LADY&HOME Retro Sunglasses