Aja Dang-Puspos arrived to champagne and strawberries at her bachelorette celebration in July 2022 on the Civana Wellness Resort and Spa in Carefree, Ariz. Her meticulously deliberate itinerary for the week included spa therapies, therapeutic work that includes a sound tub and reiki, and loads of resort actions, reminiscent of water aerobics and pickleball.

Ms. Dang-Puspos, 36, a small-business proprietor and YouTube content material creator based mostly in Los Angeles, was enthusiastic about having per week of relaxation, self-care and indulgence. She had every thing she wished for her bachelorette, nevertheless it was lacking one frequent aspect: friends. It was a solo bachelorette social gathering.

“It was the most stress-free process,” Ms. Dang-Puspos mentioned. “I didn’t want anyone to ask me questions about what to do, where to eat, where to go. I just wanted to be pampered.”

Ms. Dang-Puspos’s social gathering is a departure from the stereotypical, extra well-liked kind of bachelorette celebrations — the place teams of girls put on matching T-shirts and go bar hopping by way of a metropolis reminiscent of Nashville, for occasion, or hire homes crammed with social gathering décor and animal-shaped pool floats in Scottsdale, Ariz. Nearly 80 p.c of {couples} reported having a bachelorette social gathering in 2022, in accordance with The Knot, and the typical variety of attendees was 10 individuals; solely 11 p.c of individuals hosted a celebration with one to 5 friends.

“Bach parties are a time-honored tradition, but just like weddings, these have become hugely personalized,” Lauren Kay, the chief editor of The Knot, mentioned. “Can you get married without one or by taking a solo trip? Absolutely.”

Wrangling almost a dozen friends for a celebration isn’t engaging for each bride — and never all attendees wish to spend $1,500 to $2,000, or extra, to attend a bachelorette party. Instead of turning it up, some ladies want dialing it down, swapping pictures of Fireball with these of wheatgrass juice. Solo bachelorettes supply the chance to unwind from the stress of planning a marriage and on a regular basis life.

For Ms. Dang-Puspos, there was additionally a good thing about self-improvement. The alone time allowed her to replicate on her sense of self and the way her id would change after the marriage, she mentioned.

Monica Daniels, 26, additionally discovered her solo bachelorette getaway to be therapeutic. Ms. Daniels, a monetary advisory guide in Dallas, opted for a visit the week of her marriage ceremony in December 2022. She spent two days on the Phoenician, a resort in Scottsdale, the place she was “catered to for every whim.” She lounged on the spa’s plunge pool and sauna, and loved a 90-minute therapeutic massage. The journey gave her the prospect to replicate on the kind of spouse she wished to be, she mentioned, in addition to her long-term, and sometimes long-distance, relationship with Darrion Daniels, an expert soccer participant.

She credit the journey with serving to her keep aware and absolutely current throughout her marriage ceremony on Dec. 17.

“Brides-to-be need to make many decisions leading up to their wedding day — they come exhausted from the process,” mentioned Amy Smith, the proprietor of the Saratoga Arms, a lodge in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., that has hosted a handful of solo bachelorette events prior to now 12 months. “We were initially shocked to see this kind of demand, but as we talked to these women, we understood they desperately needed time away.”

Future brides guide the property’s Me, Myself and I bundle, Ms. Smith mentioned, which is marketed to solo feminine vacationers and consists of therapies at an area spa, a welcome basket of self-care goodies and a half-bottle of Perrier-Jouët Champagne. While the bundle is predominantly booked by skilled ladies in Boston and New York in addition to moms, Ms. Smith mentioned she had seen an uptick in engaged ladies, too. Her crew will usually customise their stays, reminiscent of by making a customized gin cocktail or organising a wedding-related romantic comedy film evening.

Annie Daly, an creator based mostly in Brooklyn, is used to taking solo journeys. So when she jetted off to Costa Rica for her bachelorette alone in August 2018, her associates have been hardly shocked, she mentioned; as a substitute, they inspired her to go. She later wrote a personal essay about her prewedding “solomoon” in Self journal, and was stunned by the quantity of fan mail she obtained.

But solo bachelorette celebrations usually are not all the time met with assist.

Both Ms. Dang-Puspos and Ms. Daniels posted about their journeys on social media, the place solo bachelorettes have grow to be a subject of debate. Some individuals consider solo bachelorettes deprive family and friends of a remaining send-off for the bride — dashing their expectations of a standard celebration.

Ms. Dang-Puspos mentioned that some individuals on-line had requested her why she would “take away that opportunity from your friends.” After Ms. Daniels’s journey, one buddy instructed her that she would have supplied to come back along with her, as if Ms. Daniels had gone alone as a result of she needed to, not as a result of she wished to.

Ms. Dang-Puspos mentioned that she targeted on the commenters who have been impressed by the unconventional nature of her journey and who mentioned they have been contemplating related celebrations — not those who disagreed along with her choice.

“They can have a large bachelorette party if that’s what they want,” Ms. Dang-Puspos mentioned. “The nature of a bachelorette is let’s go drink, let’s go party. That’s just not me.”