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[Aramelle]

In the couple times I've been involved in planning a bridal shower, it always seemed that the games were the hardest part of it all to plan. If you have any great ideas for shower games, share them here to help the brainstorming process.

[Aramelle]

This is one of the most fun games I've ever played at a shower. My cousin used this game at a shower she planned, and we had a blast. She used a poster-size picture of the groom and cut out little ball-n-chains for each guest at the shower. From there, it was played just like the old childrens game with a tail on a donkey. Of course, the winner got some kind of a little prize.

[Kirsten]

I compiled about 20 of these for my sister. . . . I'll post them in small doses.

Don't say the Bride or Groom's name.

Each guest receives a clothes pin or pin with a ribbon on it as they arrive and it is explained to the guests only once: If you catch someone saying the bride or groom's name, you can take their clothes pin. At the end of the shower the guest with the most clothes pins wins a small favor or gift.

[Kirsten]

Word Scramble

Use a sheet of paper to create the original list, then either print out the master copy or photocopy the sheet for your guests. Come up with a list of wedding items on a piece of paper, 15-25 is good. Look over the list and determine which 10-15 would be fun for a word scramble (if you used all the letters in the word, but placed them in a different order. Example: wedding gown - would be dinwged nowg.) Give the guests the sheet to unscramble and give them 5-10 minutes to figure out. The quest with the most correct wins. Increase difficulty: Use bride's last name or future name-to-be.

[Kirsten]

Who Wants To Be The Bride

Here's how the "Millionaire" game can be adapted to your wedding shower. Rather than a million dollars, you offer a mystery gift in a nicely wrapped box. First come up with 15 questions about the bride and the groom that will lead to stories about the future couple. Then, get the correct answers add make up 3 incorrect answers for each question. Before you play, organize the questions from easy to difficult.

When To Play: Before opening gifts everyone is given a pad and paper and the 1st question is read and 4 answers are given, put the answers on a large piece of paper for everyone to see (one page per question). Each guest writes down what they believe the correct answer, should take 15-30 seconds. Now everyone shows the answer answer they selected. Those who answered correctly continue to play. Now the bride-to- be can expand on the question (How did you first meet?) while opening the first gift. The questions continue until there is just one person playing and she receives the gift. Note: 1 question is read before the opening of each gift. The combination of hearing the stories behind the question keeps this part of the shower interesting for all.

[Kirsten]

Pass The Box (This one sounds fun. . . . the prize could be in the box.)

(Can be used for any type of shower) This is really fun, Take a small gift, like a pretty candle and place it in a box, then gift wrap it, but keep wrapping it with different layers of giftwrap. Play some music while passing the present around, when the music stops, the guest left holding it unwraps the first layer of wrapping paper, then the music starts again and the box is passed, then everytime the music stops, another layer is removed until someone finally unwraps the very last layer . . . . . and that is the winner.

[Kirsten]

The Wedding Dress Game

The guests are divided up into several groups and given a roll of toilet paper. The teams are told that they must create a wedding dress using only the roll one toilet paper. One member of the team becomes the model and the rest decorate. Give them 3-5 minutes to create the dress. The bride will judge that results and declare a winner. Make sure to have the camera ready for this one. A great way to get everyone involved.

[Kirsten]

Creative Story Game

Make a list of everthing the bride-to-be says while opening her gifts..."oooh", "aaahhh", "I've never had one of these", everything. After she finishes, make up a quick short story about her wedding night. Include all her comments while describing exactly what will be happening on her honeymoon. It is hilarious. (If there are children in the room or others who might not need to here the story, you can read it at her bachelorette party.

[Kirsten]

Bridal shower price is right.

This is my sister's favorite game. She's done 3 showers in the last year and she does this game every time.

There were 5-8 grocery type items on a table. They ranged inprice from .99 to 10.00. The guests had to guess the total cost of the items without going over. The winner got a gift basket. The grocery items went to the Bride.

[Kirsten]

Pin the Lips on the Groom

Instead of pin the tail on the donkey, blow up a picture of FH's face, then make little lips and blindfold each person. They try to put the lips on the picture of the groom--whoever gets closest is the winner!

(I've played this one and it was great! Get guests to write their names on the lips so you know who got the closest.)

[Kirsten]

How Well Do You Know the Bride & Groom?

The person who gets the most questions right, wins!

What is her favourite colour/pet/tv show
Did she have a soft toy she used to bring to bed. (What was his/her/its name.)
Did she suck her tumb
What highschool did she attend
What was her nicname in school/college (why)
Who is her favorite actor/ actress
Who was her first crush
What is her favorite food
If invited to a dinner does she bring red/white or rose or no wine at all
What did she always claim she wanted to be "when she grew up"
What does she not like about... insects/spiders/jellyfish/rascisim etc
If she had three wishes what would she wish for?
How do you know when she is angry/happy/ sad/ annoyed
What film could she watch over and over again
What book/programme film does she hate?
How did she meet her FH
What time is the wedding (a hoot if some one in the BP gets it wrong)
What are her colours

How long was she engaged
How did he propose

[Kirsten]

The Spice Game

Have ten bottles of herbs or spices with the labels covered. Have the guests guess the spices and herbs - they are allowed to smell the herbs or spices. The guest with the most correct answers may keep the spices or give them to the bride, preferably the latter.

[Kirsten]

The Bride Leaves the Room

Ask the bride to leave the room. The guests are asked to write down ten or fifteen things about the bride such as what color is her hair and what are the colors of her eyes. Also, what color of clothing is she wearing, what kind of jewelry is she wearing or any other accessories. The guest with the most correct answers wins a prize.

[Kirsten]

Bingo!

You make a blank grid to look like a bingo card. As the guests arrive, have them fill out the grid with gifts that they think the bride will receive. (As in the real game, Bingo, the free space is in the middle. You can write in the name of your own gift.) As the bride opens a gift, cross it off your bingo card. If you have five in a row, across or diagonally, it's Bingo! Give a prize to the first winner!

[Kirsten]

Grab the Safety Pins!

Put a bunch of white rice in some sort of container. Put a bunch of small safety pins in with the rice. You then blindfold each person at the shower and the object is to get all of the safety pins out in an allotted amount of time. This may sound like an easy game to play but it is very challenging and fun to watch!!

[Kirsten]

Bridal Pictionary

At a shower for a friend, the hostesses created a game of "Bridal Pictionary." You could go with a certain number of things to draw, or, if you're creative and like the actual game of Pictionary, you could create specific categories and go from there. The hostesses put a large board on sturdy chair and provided lots of paper and colored markers. We were divided into two teams. It was a great ice breaker and a lot of fun!!

[Kirsten]

Who Gets the Gift?

Submitted by: Elaina of Columbus, Ohio
This is a great game that turns these sweetly dressed women into raving mad and funny people! Have about 4-5 gifts, one should be a gag gift, like a pair of socks, or a roll of toilet paper. Wrap the gag gift in the most beautiful wrap you can find and wrap the other gifts in a similar fashion, but more modest. In addition, you need two decks of cards. At this point take one deck of the cards and pass them out to all the guests. Have the guests look at their "hands." Then take the second card deck and start turning one card over at a time while announcing the card for everyone to hear. Whoever has that card may go and pick a gift. When all the gifts have been passed out continue flipping over the cards. However, this time whoever has the card called may take a gift from someone else. When all the cards from the second deck have been turned over the four people who have the last four cards get to keep the gifts. This game is great fun, and talk about funny, to see women go grab a gift they want from someone else. What's even better is the woman's expression who got the gag gift - and thought they got the best gift of all!

[dolphincc]

Toilet Paper Bride

Have your guest divide into teams of two (a designer and a model). Give each team a roll of toilet paper and a time limit (I think they used 5 mins at my shower). Let the bride pick the winner.

[Mandy]

Thank you ladies!! These games sound awesome! My shower is this weekend...I'll give some of these ideas to my friends and see if they'd be interested in playing them! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

[Poloke]

Awesome ideas! Thank you I'm also passing them along to the peeps in charge of my shower....yeah i know its a long way off yet.

Ok, here are two I did at a recently attended shower.

1) Guess how many hershey's kisses are in the bowl. Everyone writes down the answer- whoever is closest wins the bowl of kisses.

2)Who is most like the bride
Make everyone there stand up. One at a time, name something about the bride. Ex: the bride wears contacts/glasses. everyone who doesn't must sit down. Keep going with things about the bride until you only have one person left standing- they win the prize for being most like the bride.

[KathyandJer]

Great ideas ladies - I also will have to pass them on to the people planning my shower! One especially, as she's never planned a shower before and only attended a few herself!

miss sparky - LOVE the "who is most like the bride" game - that's great :) Probably would be a surprise to find out who is most like me too :lol:

[JerAndKathy]

miss sparky - LOVE the "who is most like the bride" game - that's great :) Probably would be a surprise to find out who is most like me too :lol:

Surely wouldn't be me! You don't have enough hair products. :blush:

[Poloke]

Surely wouldn't be me! You don't have enough hair products. :blush:


You guys are so funny! :laugh3:

[KathyandJer]

You guys are so funny! :laugh3:
Scary part is?? It's TRUE! :laugh3: Unless you count every one of my hair elastics as a separate hair "product" :rofl:

[Andrea]

were planning a shower for a friend and the gurl im planning with tol dme this for a shower she planned for her NOW SIL! Before hand, she asked FH, now DH a few questions about himself. She had the answers written on a big piece of board and showed the rest of the ladies at the shower, she then asked her SIL and if she answered wrong to the questions she had to chew a piece of gum...haha she said it got to her chewing like two packs to gum

[KathyandJer]

were planning a shower for a friend and the gurl im planning with tol dme this for a shower she planned for her NOW SIL! Before hand, she asked FH, now DH a few questions about himself. She had the answers written on a big piece of board and showed the rest of the ladies at the shower, she then asked her SIL and if she answered wrong to the questions she had to chew a piece of gum...haha she said it got to her chewing like two packs to gum

:rofl: Okay, on second thought, I'm not showing ALL of these to my BM's :lol: I just had a vision of me with 2 packs of gum in my mouth trying to give a thank-you speech :heee:

[JerAndKathy]

:rofl: Okay, on second thought, I'm not showing ALL of these to my BM's :lol: I just had a vision of me with 2 packs of gum in my mouth trying to give a thank-you speech :heee:

It's possible, too. 'Cause you'd know what my 'real' answer would be. But, how would I answer in front of Guides/Mum/etc? :lol:

[Andrea]

haha if that happens...gotta take a pic

[katieandalex]

I don't know if either of these have been posted yet...but here are the games we played at my shower.

My sister had 10 spices with the labels covered up and everyone had to smell the spices and guess what they were. Whoever had the most correct won a prize.

The other, the guests worked in pairs. Everyone got a roll of toilet paper and a little bunch of those small flowers on wires and they had to create a veil for the bride with just those supplies. I had to chose my favorite and wear it on the rehearsal.

[Carrie429]

We played "pin the veil on the bride" at one of my showers and everyone had fun with it :). Instead of actually pinning anything though, people would sign their names on the board as a keepsake.
this was the final board:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/CarrieAnn9300/Pre%20Wedding%20Events/Bridal%20Shower%202/Pintheveilonthebride-bride.jpg

[KathyandJer]

We played "pin the veil on the bride" at one of my showers and everyone had fun with it :). Instead of actually pinning anything though, people would sign their names on the board as a keepsake.


Great idea!

[PurpleFlower]

When I helped with a baby shower I did some games that could be changed a little to be made into wedding shower games.

My fave was Bingo (baby/bride)
You make up bingo cards and then as a free space put something down that was given to her before gift opening. Then just to spice it up a little put something down on the card that is possible but not very likely for the bride to get. then have the guests fill out the rest of the card with things they think the bride will recieve when opening her gifts! It is alot of fun!

Bag of surprises
you have someone carry a bag into the middle of the floor and pretend to be looking for something in the bag. As they are looking the begin to pull out wedding related things (candle, garter, ect) then once they "find" the things for the next game they quickly put everything back into the bag. You then tell the guests that the next game is to name everything that was pulled out of the bag. It is really funny to watch people do this! The person who gets the most wins.

[nikkiscott]

These are all great ideas ladies. I am gathering some ideas for my maoh who is throwing a bridal shower for me. So I think she will like some of these ideas.

[MrsAbi]

The only thing that has leaked out to me so far about games for my vitage bridal shower is that there will be door prizes for the best vintage aprons.

[-->Kat<--]

I don't know if this one has been mentioned, but at a shower I went to we had to take a pen & paper, place it on our heads, and then draw a bridal gown. It was really fun.

[~Sherry~]

Games I played at mine:

Take it off. Give everyone a paper bag and have them put it on their head. Now tell them that they can take off anything they want. Anything at all. The point is that you can take off the bag, but at mine my MaOH was taking her bra off :laugh3: You'd be surprized at what people take off :lol:

The hostess(es) write down things that are being said and then after they get a page they say "Things that will be said on the night of the honeymoon". I had "Can I stretch first", "Oww my hairs in the way"...it's really funny.

Lights out- Give a blindfold to the bride to be and a bag of 'goodies'. Put the blindfold on and tell her that the lights went out at the hotel the night of the honeymoon and she has to get dressed in the dark. She has to put on slippers, bra, garter, etc over her clothes with the blindfold on.

I have more but I have to dig out my pictures.

[butterfly_kissings]

late to this topic but in case anyone is searching it later at a recent shower we did...

The anniversary game: The person with the closest Anniversary won a prize and then the one married the longest did too.

Marital Advice: Not really a game just write your advice down
Purse Power: Items in the purse each equal so many points the lady with the most points wins.

The Memory Game: 20 items on a tray to remember

Toliet Paper Bride: Divided the guests into groups of 4 and then they picked a Bride and "dressed" her in her bridal attire made out of toliet paper.

We also made the rehersal boquet from the bows and ribbons, wrote down thigns she said and then read them back in relation to the wedding night and maybe something else but I forget lol.

At another shower I was at recently, the bride left the room and then we had to answer prearranged questions about what she was or wasn't wearing etc.

[KathyandJer]

Copying this from another thread to here as well....

We had lots of games that were alot of fun at my showers....

Birthday - the person with the birthday closest to the wedding day got to take home the centerpiece.

GIFTS/GUEST BINGO - guests arrived and were given two bingo cards. On one, they wrote down the name of other guests in each square. On the other, they wrote down things they thought I would receive as gifts. As the gifts were opened, they could cross off the name on their GUEST bingo card...and the gift (if they guessed right) on the GIFTS bingo card. I've seen this done before with one or the other as well - lots of fun.

Budgeting - BM bought about 12-15 items at the grocery all on one bill of their own. She made up a list of all the different items, and then put them on display at the shower. Each guest had to list the cost of each item, and then total up their "groceries". The person closest to the actual cost won a prize.

How well do you know the couple? - there were facts about both Jer & I and people had to guess which one of us the fact described. We even threw in a couple that were applicable to both of us :giggle:

How well do you know him? - I was asked a bunch of questions about Jer. For each one I got wrong, I had to put a piece of bubblegum in my mouth. It was apparently amusing for the guests :blush:

And the bride wore? - all of a sudden, my BM told me to leave and I went outside and talked to Jer on the phone. At that time, she handed everyone a paper with a few questions about me (hair up or down, how many rings, shoes or sandals, what color are her nails, what color top, etc...)

Pass the prizes - there were two gifts with labels on them. One started with the bride-to-be, the other started with the first person to arrive at the shower. We had to unwrap one layer of wrapping paper and there was another label. Some of the labels were: pass to the first person on your right wearing green, person who arrived last, person closest to you with blonde hair, person with the youngest child, person with a birthday latest in the year etc... One gift ended up being given to the person with the most children...and the other gift ended with the bride-to-be :sappy:

Name that spice - numbered envelopes passed around, and we had to guess by smell (or taste, for those brave enough) what the spice was.

What's in the bag? - numbered lunch bags with everyday kitchen utensils in them. We had to reach into the bags and guess what the utensil was. This game was actually too easy - the prize went to the person with the most WRONG answers because most people got them all right (and one person even guessed that the measuring cup was 1/4 cup :lol:)

Word scramble - we were given 2 minutes to unscramble as many wedding-related words as we could. Jer & I :kickbutt: at that game - we got 14 of 18 of them. Apparently we have wedding on the brain right now :giggle:

[Amy]

There are some great game ideas on here!