Wedding sound off: toilet paper dres game

[mimzy]

shower planning has begun - i've heard (read) lots of opinions on both sides. what's your take? lots of fun or worst game ever?

ETA: i do in fact know how to spell "dress"...it's just late here!

ETAA: any other suggestions for games?

 

[pocahontas]

I actually don''t mind this game, BUT I absolutely HATE that clothes peg game where you can steal clothes pegs from people when they cross their legs and the person with the most pegs at the end of the party wins

 

[marchswallowbird]

Worst game ever. I hated that shower game. Thought it was just dumb. But I actually thought most of them were pretty silly.

 

[Izzy03]

I have had a lot of fun with that game. I got super creative and made a toilet paper e-ring, toilet paper breast augmentation, the works!

I do however, cringe at the thought of all the wasted toilet paper! (I know sad, but I am an Ecologist so seeing anything go to waste kills me!) While I don't want to see the toilet paper wasted, I sure don't want to use it either with everyone's hands all over it! (I'm also slightly OCD

)

 

[eggy1024]

Date: 9/10/2008 10:44:03 PM
Author:mimzy
shower planning has begun - i''ve heard (read) lots of opinions on both sides. what''s your take? lots of fun or worst game ever?

ETA: i do in fact know how to spell ''dress''...it''s just late here!

ETAA: any other suggestions for games?

dumb question, but what do ETA and ETAA stand for?

 

[musey]

Date: 9/10/2008 10:44:03 PM
Author:mimzy
ETAA: any other suggestions for games?

We played only two "games" (though one was not so much of a game) at the shower...

1. Newlywed Game: All the guys went in one room, and all the women went in another. They asked us each a bunch of questions about the other person (Musey, what''s your FI''s favorite comfort food?). Then when we came back, they asked me FI''s questions and vice versa (Musey''s FI, what''s your favorite comfort food?), and tallied up how many we answered correctly/the same. We scored almost perfectly!! It was really fun. Only works if you''re having a co-ed wedding shower, though, as opposed to a bridal shower.

2. Recipes for a good marriage: All guests were given little recipe cards on which to write their tips/"recipes" for a successful marriage. Then they were all placed in a box. We passed the box around the room and each person read one of the recipes, then FI and I had to guess who wrote them. We got to keep the box of recipes at the end, so that was fun

My FMIL was telling me about her shower, and one thing they did was have her bake a "wedding" cake from scratch, with no recipe (they all helped put it together, but she had to formulate the recipe by herself). Baking is so precise that even she, a pretty expert pastry chef, had trouble! They all shared it when it was done.

 

[musey]

Date: 9/11/2008 4:23:52 AM
Author: eggy1024

Date: 9/10/2008 10:44:03 PM
Author:mimzy
shower planning has begun - i''ve heard (read) lots of opinions on both sides. what''s your take? lots of fun or worst game ever?

ETA: i do in fact know how to spell ''dress''...it''s just late here!

ETAA: any other suggestions for games?

dumb question, but what do ETA and ETAA stand for?

ETA = Edited To Add
ETAA = Edited To Add Again (I assume, I usually say EagainTA haha)

 

[Elmorton]

Strongly dislike the wedding dress game. I will say that I'm pretty talented at designing gowns with TP at this point in my life, but it's awkward at best and wasteful at worst. Ugh...and don't get me started on the "secret list" game where the MoH writes down what the bride says as she opens gifts and then bills it as "Things you can expect Bride to say on her wedding night"

I originally said NO GAMES at my shower but my friends wanted something as an icebreaker since it was going to be them in a room with DH and my families, so during my grad school commencement the night before, my BMs asked DH all sorts of random questions (his favorite sport, his brand of toothpaste, his first crush, favorite color, favorite band) and then at the shower, everyone guessed how many questions out of 20 I would get right (whoever was closest got a little prize), and then they quizzed me to find out the answers. It was cute and there was absolutely no "performance" expected from the guests.

 

[choro72]

Date: 9/10/2008 11:55:23 PM
Author: Izzy03
I have had a lot of fun with that game. I got super creative and made a toilet paper e-ring, toilet paper breast augmentation, the works!

I do however, cringe at the thought of all the wasted toilet paper! (I know sad, but I am an Ecologist so seeing anything go to waste kills me!) While I don''t want to see the toilet paper wasted, I sure don''t want to use it either with everyone''s hands all over it! (I''m also slightly OCD

)

It''s not sad, I feel exactly the same way!!

 

[oobiecoo]

We had the dress game at my shower and I liked it

We had other items other than toilet paper though... wax paper (i think.. may have been craft paper), tulle, that might be it. Even the older ladies really got into it!

I TOTALLY second Musey''s "recipes for marriage". We did something similar... everyone just wrote down a piece of advice and then I read them aloud. I broke down on the 2nd one! A couple of them made me soo emotional and were things I really needed to hear. MIL''s was "marry a rich man"...

 

[pjean]

Date: 9/11/2008 3:54:14 PM
Author: oobiecoo
MIL''s was ''marry a rich man''...

HA!! I just snorted my tea.

 

[mimzy]

thanks for all your input girls! i always appreciate the replies and guidance.

i thought that we''d do one gamey type icebreaker thing at the shower and after some deliberation it''s not going to be the dress game. we''re going to do the game were each team of four or five is given four or five pictures of the couple at different times/events and has to come up with a story that ties them all together (best/most creative story team gets a prize). we''re also going to have anyone who wants to draw a picture depicting their favorite memory with me and/or stefan in it while i''m opening presents and then the ones that i recognize (without being told who they were by) get a prize.

truthfully, my mom went out months ago and spent way too much on small prizes and we just need ways to give them away!

thanks again!

 

[musey]

Date: 9/11/2008 10:53:45 AM
Author: musey
1. Newlywed Game: All the guys went in one room, and all the women went in another. They asked us each a bunch of questions about the other person (Musey, what''s your FI''s favorite comfort food?). Then when we came back, they asked me FI''s questions and vice versa style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">(Musey''s FI, what''s your favorite comfort food?), and tallied up how many we answered correctly/the same. We scored almost perfectly!! It was really fun. Only works if you''re having a co-ed wedding shower, though, as opposed to a bridal shower.

That should read: "Musey''s FI, what''s HER favorite comfort food"... I would''ve answered mac & cheese, and if he answers mac & cheese he gets a point. That made NO sense the way I wrote it!!

 

[mimzy]

Date: 9/11/2008 11:35:11 PM
Author: musey

Date: 9/11/2008 10:53:45 AM

Author: musey

1. Newlywed Game: All the guys went in one room, and all the women went in another. They asked us each a bunch of questions about the other person (Musey, what''s your FI''s favorite comfort food?). Then when we came back, they asked me FI''s questions and vice versa
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">(Musey''s FI, what''s your favorite comfort food?), and tallied up how many we answered correctly/the same. We scored almost perfectly!! It was really fun. Only works if you''re having a co-ed wedding shower, though, as opposed to a bridal shower.

That should read: ''Musey''s FI, what''s HER favorite comfort food''... I would''ve answered mac & cheese, and if he answers mac & cheese he gets a point. That made NO sense the way I wrote it!!

haha, i knew what you meant! that sounds like a ton of fun - we might be able to do something like it, adapting it for a girls-only shower

maybe they could videotape his responses....

 

[ChargerGrrl]

Date: 9/11/2008 10:53:45 AM
Author: musey

Date: 9/10/2008 10:44:03 PM
Author:mimzy
ETAA: any other suggestions for games?

We played only two ''games'' (though one was not so much of a game) at the shower...

1. Newlywed Game: All the guys went in one room, and all the women went in another. They asked us each a bunch of questions about the other person (Musey, what''s your FI''s favorite comfort food?). Then when we came back, they asked me FI''s questions and vice versa (Musey''s FI, what''s your favorite comfort food?), and tallied up how many we answered correctly/the same. We scored almost perfectly!! It was really fun. Only works if you''re having a co-ed wedding shower, though, as opposed to a bridal shower.

2. Recipes for a good marriage: All guests were given little recipe cards on which to write their tips/''recipes'' for a successful marriage. Then they were all placed in a box. We passed the box around the room and each person read one of the recipes, then FI and I had to guess who wrote them. We got to keep the box of recipes at the end, so that was fun

My FMIL was telling me about her shower, and one thing they did was have her bake a ''wedding'' cake from scratch, with no recipe (they all helped put it together, but she had to formulate the recipe by herself). Baking is so precise that even she, a pretty expert pastry chef, had trouble! They all shared it when it was done.

actually, you CAN do this game if you''re doing a non-co-ed bridal shower. my MOH asked DH the questions beforehand and i was asked the same questions there in front of everyone. If we both answered the same thing then it was counted correctly.

but to answer your orignal question, Mimzy I don''t really dig the toilet paper dress game.

 

[ChargerGrrl]

oops- mimzy
didn't see your last post.
videotaping him would be great! MOH called DH and told him about the game, but sent the questions via email, and asked him to be as wordy as possible in explaining his responses. MOH would announce his answer and follow it up by reading his response "story". The questions and answers were "clean", but my MIL did blush once!

 

[musey]

Date: 9/11/2008 11:57:17 PM
Author: ChargerGrrl

Date: 9/11/2008 10:53:45 AM
Author: musey
1. Newlywed Game: All the guys went in one room, and all the women went in another. They asked us each a bunch of questions about the other person (Musey, what's your FI's favorite comfort food?). Then when we came back, they asked me FI's questions and vice versa (Musey's FI, what's your favorite comfort food?), and tallied up how many we answered correctly/the same. We scored almost perfectly!! It was really fun. Only works if you're having a co-ed wedding shower, though, as opposed to a bridal shower.

actually, you CAN do this game if you're doing a non-co-ed bridal shower. my MOH asked DH the questions beforehand and i was asked the same questions there in front of everyone. If we both answered the same thing then it was counted correctly.

You can do a variation on it, obviously--I was saying that you couldn't do it the way we did it.

What was so fun about it, for us, was to hear the all the guys laughing in the other room, then when we came back together I had so much fun seeing him get the questions "right."

Not to say it wouldn't be fun without guys there, of course. Just that the parts that were the most fun for us required the co-ed element!