You’ve been making plans with your gal pals for years, but now, with a wedding on the way for one of your besties, you need to seriously step things up for her bridal shower! From bar crawls to brunches, we’re sharing eight creative ideas for the big occasion that are totally outside of the box.

Surprise! After months of playing coy about their relationship status, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis finally tied the knot in a top-secret wedding over Fourth of July weekend. (Rumors began swirling when Kutcher, 37, signed a New Year's Eve Facebook post with "The Kutchers." And in March, Kunis, 31, added fuel to the fire during an appearance on The Late Late Show by responding "maybe" when asked if she was married.)

If you're attending a wedding this summer, you've likely faced the common gift-giving conundrum: how much should you really give? While your personal relationship with the couple and your household budget should be your primary guides on how much to spend, Tendr, a site that makes it easy (and fun) for guests to give you cash gifts, compiled valuable information about monetary gift-giving trends.

It's simple to throw the wedding of your dreams when you don't have to worry about pesky little details like "the budget" — that's why we love looking to celebrity weddings for inspiration. And, surprisingly, some of the most-talked-about ideas from recent A-list weddings can easily be recreated on a real-person budget. Celebrity wedding planner Andrea Freeman, who recently planned the wedding of Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder, shares some of her favorite ideas:

Jeremy and Justice Stamper got married on August 1st, 2014 in a country-themed wedding in southwestern Virginia filled with sunflowers. Jeremy reminisces to ABC News that it was "absolutely perfect." (The pair met at their Sunday school church back when they were just 10 and 11 years old, and they began dating in high school.)