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Before the bride in your life walks down the aisle, there are a few events that’ll take place prior to saying, “I do.” Along with a bridal shower, it’s typical for the bride and groom to separately have a last hoorah with their closest friends and family members (typically made up of their bridesmaids and groomsmen). Yes, this is a bachelor and bachelorette party.
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As someone who recently came back from a bachelorette party, showing up with a bachelorette gift will ensure the bride leaves with something she can look at and remember during and fater her pre-wedding getaway.
Planning a wedding can be a stressful time for your friend, which is where a thoughtful bachelorette gift comes in. Some of the best bachelorette gifts you can give include items or experiences she can use on her wedding day or some stress relieving tools. It also helps if you take into account her interests and hobbies to help tailor it specifically to the bride in your life.
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Keep reading to learn more about the best bachelorette gifts to buy online.
Do You Give a Gift At a Bachelorette Party?
It’s not mandatory to bring a bachelorette gift to the party, but it can be a heartfelt surprise for the bride-to-be to receive. If the bride didn’t throw a bridal shower, it’s also an opportunity to gift her something creative and make a DIY bachelorette gift. Or if she appreciates jokes, you can gift her something funny that’s not on the registry.
How Much Should I Gift for a Bachelorette Party?
Since it’s optional to bring a gift, this will determine on your own personal budget. It’s the thought that counts when it comes to gifting the bride, which means you don’t need to go outside your spending limits in order to surprise her with a memorable bachelorette gift.
What Are Some of the Best Bachelorette Gifts?
To help inspire you, Shop Billboard put together a list of the best bachelorette gifts, ranging from classy finds to presents she can sport on her honeymoon. Keep reading to shop our guide.
editor’s pick
Jonny Pajama Set
We’ve tested out this pajama set from Birdy Grey and think it’s not only a cozy sleepwear set for yourself, but the bride in your life as well. The material is lightweight and breathable to help you sleep without overheating and as an added bonus, you can get any pair personalized with embroidery to make it extra unique.
classy pick
Mariella White Pearl Tulle Bow
We can’t get over how delicate this tulle bow is — especially for a bride. Its simple construction uses a sheer white tulle decorated with pearls that she can wear during her rehearsal dinner and beyond. The back features a barrette design that’ll help keep it secure in her hair.
funny pick
Custom Bachelorette Candle Gift
$24
$30
20% off
If your bride loves a gag gift, then make sure to wrap up this funny candle for her. You can customize the name in the text as well as pick out what scent you want the candle to smell like and the main shade of the label.
last-minute pick
Kate Spade New York Bridal Insulated Tumbler
If you’re a Prime member you’re eligible for free one-day shipping that’ll quickly ship you a last-minute bachelorette gift like this unique tumber by Kate Spade. Included is a blue straw for that something blue, and a graphic with the word “miss” crossed out and “Mrs.” written in a flashy gold.Don’t have Amazon Prime? New users can score a 30 day free trial here.
cozy pick
Dearfoams I Do Slippers
$19
$38
50% off
Encourage some R&R with these irresistibly soft slippers that say “I Do” in gold. The faux fur is made from a 100% polyester material for cushioning and coziness, while the sole uses a rubber material for added grip. Plus, the bride can take them with her on her wedding day for getting ready and her travels.
DIY pick
Bachelorette Party Guest Book
$49.50
$66
25% off
Rather than just keep it to the memories, this bachelorette guest book is a must-have keepsake for when she’s feeling nostalgic. You can customize the cover with her name and the date as well as choose the cover color and font. The blank pages inside can be used for bridesmaids to share well wishes and write their own note.
honeymoon pick
SKIMS Soft Lounge Long Slip Dress
There’s a reason why this SKIMS maxi slip dress can’t stay in stock — it comes with a stretchy material that’s soft and forms to your body (and every body) for a flattering look. More than 3,000 reviewers have rated the dress, with most of them praising how versatile the design is commenting how you can “dress it up or down.”
fun pick
Date Night Box
$14.95
$26.95
45% off
Help the bride in your life and her partner mix up their date nights with these scratch off dates. Inside are 35 cards that the couple can scratch off together to discover what activity they’ll be doing together. Plus, you can score an extra $2 off right now when you click the on-site Amazon coupon checkbox before adding it to your cart.
subscription pick
Alo Moves
For the active bride, Alo Moves will help her achieve all of her fitness goals through a wide library of on-demand classes. Whether she’s into yoga, pilates or strength training, the subscription will provide everything from relaxing stretches to sweat-inducing exercises. Before checkout, you’ll have the option between gifting a six month or 12-month subscription.
splurge-worthy pick
Millie Lattice Flat Sandal
These flat sandals aren’t just perfect for taking on her honeymoon, they also come with an elegant strappy design she’ll want to sport beyond her wedding celebrations. The open-toe design is ideal for showing off a fresh pedicure while the side straps can be adjusted to her liking.The brand also notes the shoes run small, so be sure to size up half a size.
For more product recommendations, check out our gift guide for music lovers, singers and dog lovers.
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Each year, approximately 250,000 music fans trek to the Coachella Valley Music Festival, and a number of this year’s attendees will be camping out.
If you plan on camping at Coachella or Stagecoach, but haven’t gotten a tent yet, there’s still time to purchase camping essentials before the big festival weekend kicks off. Weekend two of Coachella will be held from Friday, April 21 until Sunday, April 22.
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To help you get prepared, we searched online to find three, bestselling tents from Amazon, Walmart and REI.
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Amazon
2 Person Tent – Rain Fly & Carrying Bag
If you’re looking for a cheaper option that’s easy to put together, Amazon has a large variety of tents and camping gear. This water resistant, two-person tent has a floor surface of 30 sq. feat, and measures 77 inches x 57 inches). The tent can be used for camping, hiking, fishing, festivals and other outdoor activities. And it weighs just 2.75 pounds when folded up, making it easy to carry around on a hiking trip or hiking through Coachella.
Wakeman Outdoor Tents are available in blue, orange, green, pink, red and yellow.
Walmart
Ozark Trial Dome Tent
$29.97
$34
12% off
The Ozark Trail Tent is designed for up to three people, and it’s large enough to fit a queen-sized air mattress, according to the product description. The tent boasts an oval shape for added headroom, built in storage pockets and a mesh roof to keep the air flowing, and for star gazing at night.
There’s also a mud mat at the entry, which you’ll probably need for Coachella (it gets muddy at times) and a removable rainfly tarp in the front. The 71 x 71-inch tent weighs 5.64 pounds.
REI
Zempire Trilogy Tent
$191.73
$429.95
55% off
The Zempire Trilogy Tent holds up to four people and it’s easy to set up, thanks to the two-pole “quick-clip” design, which basically means it won’t take too many steps to get it up. Based on the customer reviews though, shoppers are split between the tent being easy to set up and challenging to put together. This tent is on sale at REI.
If you’re interested in a cheaper option, the Alpine Mountain Gear Weekender Tent is on sale for $65. See more tents on sale at REI here.
Coachella Camping Rules: What You Need to Know
Coachella offers tent camping, car camping and preferred car camping. Car camping appears to be the most popular among the three, and one of the most affordable options, since you’re basically paying for the parking space.
For car camping, Coachella allows trucks and passenger vans, but no RVs, trailers, buses, or motorcycles. There’s no restriction on the number of people and tents allowed, however, only one vehicle is allowed in each camping site.
Basic car camping is first-come-first-serve, but preferred car camping is located at Lot 8 and you can arrive “at your leisure,” per Coachella.
Coachella’s car camping sites measure 30 x 10 feet, tent camping sites are 15 x 10 feet.
For preferred camping, you can choose between a two-person lodge, or four-person tent. The 8 x 12 x 8-foot lodge includes two GA or VIP passes to the music festival. The four-person tent measures 12 x 14, and it’s fully pitched, so need to worry about putting it together. It also comes with four sleeping cots, sleeping bags, pillows, chairs and a cooler.
Coachella covers camping essentials like sleeping bags and pillows for VIP campers. There’s also a 24-hour concierge, overnight parking, exclusive bathrooms and showers, cell phone charging stations and Wifi in select areas.
Camping passes start at $149 at Coachella.com, but you can also find them at Vivid Seats, and you might be able to score last-minute tickets at StubHub, although they were sold out at press time.
For more items to add to your Coachella pack list, read our recommendations for best footwear for festival season and a roundup of festival essentials to bring along.
Chileans FloyyMenor and Cris Mj achieve a significant breakthrough as “Gata Only,” their first collab, earns both artists their maiden No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart (dated April 20). The song climbs 2-1, four weeks after it hit the top 10 on the multi-metric tally and its subsequent entry on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 in March.
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“Super happy with this achievement,” 18-year-old FloyyMenor tells Billboard. “I’m grateful to the people who have supported me since my beginnings. It was difficult for me to get where I am, but we’ve reached one of the goals I had.”
“Gata Only” pushes to No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs, which combines radio airplay, streaming and sales, assisted by a robust streaming activity during the April 5-11 tracking week. According to Luminate, the reggaetón tune, released Feb. 2 via FloyyMenor/UnitedMasters, registered 11.11 million official U.S. streams, that’s a 33% gain from the previous week.
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“Gata Only” is the first entry for FloyyMenor on Hot Latin Songs, and the third for Cris Mj. For the latter, it’s also his first top 10-charting hit.
That streaming sum yields a No. 34 debut on the overall Streaming Songs chart, a premiere visit for both artists, plus a second week atop the Latin Streaming Songs chart with the Greatest Gainer honors of the week.
First No. 1 on First Try: “Gata Only” becomes the 413th No. 1 in the Hot Latin Songs’ 38-year history. The list boasts 47 artists, including FloyyMenor, who have secured their first No. 1 on their first chart visit, dating back to Kaoma’s “Lambada” which dominated for seven weeks in 1990. Notably, FloyyMenors joins two other acts who have achieved the feat this decade: The Weeknd, through his Maluma collab, “Hawai,” which ruled for nine weeks in 2020, and Yahritza y Su Esencia’s “Soy El Único” for one week in charge in 2022.
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TikTok Activity: Steady viral support on TikTok has also raised awareness of the song, concurrent with its rise to No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs. The track has generated over 3 million user videos to date on TikTok. Activity on TikTok is not included on the Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50, where the song rises 10-7 on the current chart. While TikTok is not part of the chart, the popularity of the song on the platform has helped increase activity of the track on those platforms that contribute to the ranking (such as traditional streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube, as well as radio airplay).
Global Presence: In the global realm, “Gata Only” reaches new heights. On the all-genre Billboard Global 200, it climbs 15-10, supported largely by 59.5 million streams (up 31%) accumulated worldwide in the tracking week. It’s the first top 10 for both acts. Plus, Cris Mj bests his No. 29-peaking “Una Noche En Medellín” (April 2022).
“Just as my colleague Cris Mj, I am super happy because we were able to take ‘Gata Only’ to a global level, raise our country Chile’s name and break records,” FloyyMenor adds. “Thank you to all the people who are listening to the song and dropping their videos on socials!”
Meanwhile, “Gata” advances 9-6 on Global Excl. U.S. chart with 48.4 million streams outside the U.S.
Back in the U.S., while “Gata Only” grants both Chilean artists their first No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs, Christopher Andrés Álvarez García, better known as Cris Mj, came close to the top 10 when the remix of “Una Noche En Medellín” (Remix), with Karol G and Ryan Castro, reached No. 12 high in Aug. 2023. Cris Mj also charted with the original version of “Una Noche En Medellín,” peaking at No. 24 in 2022.
Further, “Gata Only” makes substantial progress on the Billboard Hot 100, where it enters the top 50, rallying 74-48 in its fourth week. Plus, it re-enters Latin Digital Song Sales at No. 4 following its No. 14 debut (April 6-dated list).
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Forget “The Power of Love,” the world is going to get an up-close behind-the-scenes look at the power of Céline Dion in her new documentary, which finally received an official release date. On Tuesday (April 16), via a joint Instagram post on the official pages for Dion and Prime Movies, Amazon MGM Studios announced that […]
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From Ye calling out George Bush after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the breakthrough of having Barack Obama brush the imaginary dirt off his shoulder, hip-hop has long had a complicated relationship with the White House. On Tuesday (April 16), ESPN and Disney’s Andscape debuted the first trailer for Hip-Hop and The White House […]
She knows she didn’t invent the idea of “gay pop,” but pop singer and Internet personality JoJo Siwa would like to see the subset become an “official genre” of music.
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During an interview on SiriusXM’s Hits 1 Miami With Mack & Jen, Siwa clarified the comments she made in a viral video interview with Billboard, saying she simply wants to see more queer art get recognized. “So, here’s the thing — ‘gay pop’ is a thing that people have done, but it is not an official genre of music,” she explained. “It is a style, but it is how there’s rap, there’s rock, there’s R&B, there’s pop — if you look on the iTunes charts … this should be a literal genre of music.”
The former Dance Moms star continued, saying that she doesn’t feel the current categorizations for LGBTQ+ artists are sufficient. “There’s so many gay pop artists … but I think that those gay pop artists do deserve a bigger home than what they have right now,” she said.
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Siwa originally spoke about the concept of “gay pop” during an interview with Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly about her new song “Karma,” when she claimed that she told her label (Columbia Records) that she “wanted to start a new genre … called ‘gay pop.’” Commenters quickly called out the singer for claiming to have created a “genre” that has existed for years — even LGBTQ+ pioneers Tegan and Sara shared a video on TikTok where they silently stared into a camera following the 20-year-old’s comments.
In a later interview with TMZ, Siwa clarified that she didn’t intend to say that she “invented” the concept of “gay pop” music. “I am not the inventor of gay pop, for sure not. But I do want to be a piece of making it bigger than it already is,” she said. “I’m not the president [of gay pop], but I might be the CEO, or the CMO. I can be the CMO, the chief marketing officer, and use my marketing tactics whether people like it or not.”
Elsewhere in her interview on SiriusXM, Siwa bemoaned the ongoing backlash to her comments. “I could say I want world peace, and everyone would be like, ‘How dare you want peace for the world!’” she said. “People ask me all the time, they’re like, ‘Do you feel like you have to be very careful about what you say?’ And I’m like, ‘No, because no matter what I say, it’s going down anyways.’”
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