Wedding Bridal Shower Games - Any suggestions?

[Sparkalicious]

I''ve been asked to organize a few Bridal Shower games for my cousin''s bridal shower. I haven''t been to a ton of bridal showers and generally, the ones I have been to, the games haven''t been the highlight. This being said, people seem to tend to either love them or hate them.

This aside, since I have been charged with this responsibility, I would like to do a good job and make my cousin happy so I thought I would check with my PS friends ...

Can you please share any suggestions you might have for fun and relatively short bridal shower games? I''m looking for ideas that might engage the guests and entertain them without interrupting the flow of the event or prevent the possibility of mingling and conversation.

Thank you, ladies for any and all ideas!!!

 

[MustangGal]

At my shower we made the TP dresses, and I had to judge them. It sounds cheesy, but everyone had a lot of fun, and the "dresses" actually looked pretty good! This might be better for a younger croud.

 

[DMBFiredancer]

here's some:
bridal shower games

 

[OUpearlgirl]

One we played was we were each given two cards. On one we wrote a problem she may come to in her marriage. On the other, we wrote a solution to this problem. Then we put each in two bags, one for problems and one for solutions.. Then we took turns reaching in and grabbing one of each. We ended up with really silly combinations like "He loses his job .... so you tell him it's ok if his mother moves in."

 

[Sparkalicious]

Thanks so much you guys! Great ideas! I really appreciate you taking the time to respond.

OUpeargirl - Original! Never heard of that one before ... I think we are definitely going to use that one. Keeps everyone engaged and is not predictable so people won''t tend to get bored.

 

[ponderer]

I played a great ice breaker game at shower a few years back where literally almost no one knew each other. (Bride did not know guests, guests did not know bride, bridesmaids did not know each other or the guests or the brides family).

As each guest arrived a sticker was placed on the back of their shoulder. The sticker had a wedding related word (cake, groom, bouquet, etc.). The guests had to talk to each other to figure out what the word on their back was (think 20 questions). Once you figured out your word you got to remove the sticker.

I really helped to get people mixing.

 

[Sparkalicious]

Great idea as that is one of our goals ... get people circulating and interacting with both those they know and with those they either don''t know or are not that familiar.

Thanks for sharing, ponderer!

 

[miraclesrule]

If you are not too afraid to get a little risque, the girls did a really funny, albeit scandalous game at my daughter's "friends" bridal shower. We had to think of a household chore that we hated the most. I think the sentence was " I hate ______, because it ________. I think I said, "I hate cleaning the shower doors, because my right shoulder hurts afterward." We then had to read it back...out loud...substituting the word "sex" for the household chore. So mine became "I hate sex, because my right shoulder hurts afterward.

One girl's turned out "I hate sex, because I have 1500 square feet to mop up".

Too funny.

Another fun interactive game involved a sheet of paper that had "fill in the blank" questions about a guest and the couple, such as "Who has known the Groom longer than the Bride? Or "Who was on the cheerleading squad with the Bride?" or "Who has traveled out of the country with the Groom?" The person who filled up their long questionaire first won the prize. I was disqualified.

But it was fun because the bride and grooms friend's had to run around and get to know who was who.

At the "family" bridal shower, we played "Family Feud". It was super fun. We broke up into two teams and each question was asked and we had only so much time for our team to chose the top four answers "on the board". The questions were really fun. Such as the most popular wedding cake topper, or the top four events at a bachelor party, etc.

Some of the games can be really fun.

Another thing they did at my daughter's shower, which I liked, was that everyone had to write some advice to the couple on paper that was provided and each one was placed into a wedding album for them to look at later.

A tip that we didn't do, that I wish we would have, but was done at another shower I went to...have a basket with pens and blank envelopes for each guest to fill out, so that you already have self addressed envelopes for "Thank You' cards to send to each of the guests afterward. I wish we would have done that.

 

[swimmer]

Great suggestions!
Totally think about the dynamics of the invitees. It all depends on that. My FMIL insisted on 12 of her friends I had never previously (or since) seen/met, so that cut down on all sorts of hilarity.

Regarding the TY envelopes, I always do the TY envelope addressing when hosting a shower, with a package of stamps rather than pre-stamped because you never know who isn''t going to come...or in a few cases, people have come but not brought a present, so no TY to send/write/stamp unless its a TY for coming. Yes, I''ve been an MOH 5 times and a BM now 12! Sometimes I get a nice picture frame box and put an invite in the cover and fill it with lots of stationary, if the bride doesn''t have her own...
Just adding this really because I''m not sure how some of the older crowd would feel about addressing their own TYs...but for anyone involved in running a shower with access to the invite list, brides seem to appreciate it.

 

[Sparkalicious]

Wow - Great suggestions and such efficiency. I guess you do get good at this stuff after a while, huh?

Thanks for sharing, Miraclesrule & swimmer! I''m thinking that we should throw a PS bridal shower and it would be superbly executed and fun to boot ...

I think that the rest of the bridal party will really appreciate these suggestions as well.

 

[Sparkalicious]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! The bridal shower went well and everyone enjoyed the games.

 

[miraclesrule]

I''m so glad to hear that everyone had a great time. What games did you end up playing?