Picnic/Outdoor Themed Bridal Shower

This is a darling theme for a warm spring or summer bridal shower in the park.

Song of Solomon 2:3-13 might work well for a bridal shower of this theme.  It has images of the out of doors and nature which go with an outdoor, park, picinic themed shower.  It speaks of a bride's love for her husband and her excitement at seeing him.  The devotional talk could spring board from this passage to talking about how a bride can keep love alive in her marriage.

Song of Solomon 2

³ Like an apple^[c] tree among the trees of the forest
    is my beloved among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade,
    and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
⁴ Let him lead me to the banquet hall,
    and let his banner over me be love.
⁵ Strengthen me with raisins,
    refresh me with apples,
    for I am faint with love.
⁶ His left arm is under my head,
    and his right arm embraces me.
⁷ Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.

⁸ Listen! My beloved!
    Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.
⁹ My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
    Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    peering through the lattice.
¹⁰ My beloved spoke and said to me,
    “Arise, my darling,
    my beautiful one, come with me.
¹¹ See! The winter is past;
    the rains are over and gone.
¹² Flowers appear on the earth;
    the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
    is heard in our land.
¹³ The fig tree forms its early fruit;
    the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.
Arise, come, my darling;
    my beautiful one, come with me.”