There is nothing quite like a bridal shower, having a group of ladies close to the bride all together at once celebrating an upcoming wedding, and the games you play at the bridal shower will help make everything more memorable for everyone involved. Having a list of bridal shower prepared will help everything to go smoothly. Be sure to keep in mind that there is no rule stating that you must have games at your bridal shower, but it will help your guests relax and start interacting if they are not already friends. There are bridal shower games for every age group, from the tame to the wild, and the game possibilities are practically endless. Here are some of my favorite games played at bridal showers. Personally, I prefer tamer bridal shower games as they are acceptable to every belief system, young and old, thus those are the ones I have listed below.
1. Design the Bride’s Dress
With this game, teams are formed and given several rolls of toilet paper. The group chooses one teammate to be the ‘bride’, and then create a dress for her out of the toilet paper given. They can create any kind of dress, veil, decorations, and other wedding dress details. At the end of the time limit, each team is judged based on creativity, and the bride chooses her favorite. Prizes are given to the winning team, while teams winning in most creative, most ornate, or even ugliest dress can receive ribbons or some other small prize. It’s amazing how creative people can get in a hurry, and make sure to bring a camera to document each dress into the future, very fun.
2. The Scavenger Hunt Collage
In this game, teams are formed and given several magazines, along with a sheet of paper, scissors, a glue stick and/or tape. Then pass out to each team a list of about 10 – 15 things to find in the magazines and watch them go to work! Get creative with your lists, and the first team to find, cut out and glue everything onto their page wins. The you can put them in a book for the bride to keep and remember her shower.
3.The Spice of Life
Buy several different kinds of spices that are both common to cooking, as well as some speicalty spices that may be harder. Put them in numbered cups and pass them around the room having each guest smell them and then write down their guess next to the corresponding number on their sheet of paper. The person with the most correct wins a prize.
4. The Safety Pin Game
This game sounds super easy, but it can get suprisingly hard. Fill a large mixing bowl with long grained rice, and then add about 50 small or medium safety pins. For each turn, blindfold the player and have them search and pull out all of the safety pins that they can find. Record the number, return them the the bowl and go on to the next person. Once everyone has had a turn, the person who retrieved the most safety pins wins the game, and a prize.
5. Traditional Ice Breaker Games
These games are little shorter, and are used more as icebreakers than actual games, though they can be used as both. For one, create a list of commonly used bridal terms and scramble them up. Have each guest unscramble the letters, the first one to get them all, or whoever has the most after a certain time limit wins the game. For another game, have the bride to be sit among the guests for the first 20 minutes or so, then have her leave the room. Hand out sheets of paper and see who can remember the most about what she was wearing. It can be super detailed, from shoe color and type to stockings and jewelry. The guest who remembers the most gets a prize. Another popular game includes having the name of a famous person taped to the back of each guest, and then each person goes around and asks the other guests questions about who their person is, until everyone has discovered the name on their back.
If you choose to play games at your bridal shower, you can use as many games as you’d like, though I wouldn’t do more than three or four. There are plenty of games you can play, keep checking back to find out more!
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November 20th, 2007 at 11:51 am
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