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Bridal Shower Games
Bridal shower games, and bridal shower ideas for planning the best wedding shower in town. We also have tips for bridal shower invitations. Your wedding gown is ready, it's time for your maid of honor to throw you the perfect bridal shower party with fun wedding shower games. Keep your bridal shower games simple, no excessive amounts of writing or long involved scavenger hunts or your guests will lose interest. There may be both men and women in the bridal shower games, so make sure they will interest everyone. Great bridal
shower gift
ideas for the bride: Recommended books for bridal shower ideas, and bridal shower
invitations
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Guest Gift/Sign In Book
Buy a scrap book and use a Polaroid camera or digital camera. As guests arrive
(as well as during the shower) the guests get their picture taken with the bride
to be and place it in the scrap book with a place for the guest to sign their
name. The pictures are a documentary that shows who was there as well as the fun
you all had. The bride will really love the idea of nice memories of her shower.
With the rest of the pages in the scrap book, we filled them with pic's of the
shower games, and the fun time that we had.
Buy inexpensive Disposable Wedding Cameras to place your tables. Buy your cameras now, while it's fresh on your mind, they are hard to find and 2 days before your wedding reception. Your guests know what to do with these wedding cameras. Your photographer cannot be everywhere and your guests won't let good times go by undocumented. I was impressed by the imagination of our non-pro wedding guests. We got some one of a kind greats. The Kodak Disposable Wedding Cameras take better pictures these days; film technology has really improved. It's amusing to see the action that you missed at your wedding. When shooting with these disposable wedding cameras, make sure the subject is 6' to 12' away. Any further and the picture positively will not come out. The photo will be too dark.
Free Bridal Shower Games:
Trivia Game
Have a combined party for all of the wedding attendants. The best way to do it
was to pass out sort of a multiple choice (or multiple guess for those who don't
know much) test to see how well they knew the bride and groom and their
relationship. The person (or couple) with the most questions right wins a prize
like movie passes. Some good questions were "Where did they eat at during our
first date", "What weird thing happened during their second date at his house"
(in one couple's case, no one got that one right...the answer was that his goat
started giving birth).
Bridal Rage
Sent in by Teresa Williams. The bride blind folds all of her guests. The bride will make several noises such as snapping her fingers, tap dancing,
letting the air out of a balloon, popping a piece of bubble wrap, drumming pots,
or any strange noise...as quickly as she can. The guest can give their answers
one at a time. The guest who identifies the most sounds wins the prize. The
guests only have 5 seconds, one chance for each for guessing, and there is to be
no blurting out!
Party Crasher
(Sent in by Lisa Leigh)
I had a friend of mine, whom the bride didn't know
come with her daughter. They walked in (nobody knew her) and put her gift on
the table then sat down. The bride-to-be's Mom (who is my sister) started
talking to her trying to find out who she was. Then everybody was kind of
asking her who she was related to, etc. I just sat back and acted like I
didn't know who she was and not saying much, because I didn't want to laugh.
Well, we went around the room and everybody said who they were and who they
were related to, such as cousin to the bride, aunt of the groom, etc. When it
came to my friend, she said, "You know, I think I'm at the wrong shower" She
acted like she was all flustered, went to stand up and dumped her purse all
over the floor. Of course everybody tried to help her and we all felt
terrible and embarrassed for her. So I helped her to the door and thanked her
and walked back into the room where everybody was talking and whispering. I
said, "OK, that was my friend Sharlene, and it was all staged. Everybody
write down what she had dumped out in her purse". She had duct tape, a beanie
baby, lots of weird stuff. We are still laughing about it.
Ice
Breaker
This isn't really a game, but it is a good
wedding shower ice breaker. Go around the room and have each guest spend
no longer than 30 seconds telling everyone who they are and how they know the
bride & groom. This will loosen everyone up for the games.
Charades
This is one of the most
popular bridal shower games. The guests separate into 2 groups and write
down titles of movies, shows, or famous people. Each team then selects
a person to act out the charade and they draw from the opposing teams list
of titles. From here, we all know how charades work, so your team
members must guess what the title was as the appointed team member silently
acts out the clues. You can also do it Pictionary style, which is
fun too.
"Who
Am I?" Bridal Shower Game
This is very popular ice
breaker wedding shower game. Prepare index cards with the names of
famous people written on them. When guests arrive, attach a card
to each guest's back so that the guest cannot see who the name is, but
everyone else can. Each guest must then ask the other guests for
clues to the identity of the famous person whose name is taped to their
back. To prevent cheating from clever guests trying to read it in
a mirror, place a 2nd index card over the title to hide it.
The Toilet Paper Bridal
Shower Game
Break everyone up into even groups, someone picks a bride out of each group and
they make her a bride out of toilet paper. The bride picks the one she likes the
best.
Pre-Addressed
Envelope Door Prize Game
As guests arrive they are
handed an envelope and asked to write their address on it, then it's put
in a basket. One envelope is drawn, and the winning guest receives a prize.
Then the envelopes (already addressed) along with the thank you cards were
given to the mother, making it very easy to send.
What's
The Bride Wearing Game
Gather
the guests and give them a pen and paper. Tell the bride to leave
the room and have the each guest write down everything the bride is wearing.
After a preset time, you can bring the bride back in and whoever has the
closest description wins the prize
The
Clothespin Game
There
are many variations of this game. The host buys a bag of colorful
clothespins. Each guest receives one when the arrive. During
the game the guests are forbidden from saying a particular word.
Some variations prevent you from mentioning the groom's name, some prevent
you from saying the word "No". If another guest catches you saying
the forbidden word during the game, they get your clothespin. The
wedding shower guest with the most clothespins at the end of the game wins
the prize.
The
Alphabet Game (from The
Complete Book Of Wedding Showers)
The host starts with a sentence
using the letter "A" to describe a food. In the sentence she describes
that she went to a friend's house and she served artichokes. The
next guest must repeat this sentence and add another item of food at the
end of the sentence, and it starts with the letter "B". The next
guest does the same thing and adds a food starting with the letter "C".
Anyone unable to add a food must drop out of the game. The person
who stays alive the longest wins the prize.
"Dress
The Bride" Game
Take rolls of toilet paper
and you have to make a wedding dress in under 5 minutes. Divided into groups
of three with one bride and two bridesmaids. A more environmentally conscious
alternative would be to take bed sheets and other fabric scraps and make
the wedding gowns this way! We borrowed this idea from Beverly Hills
90210!
Catch
The Bridal Bouquet Game
We also played catch the
bouquet where we pinned paper flowers to a dart board. The girls had three
chances to hit the flower with a dart, and the closest one wins the game.
Bridal
Pictionary
Think of wedding words like
'mother in law" "garter toss" "flower girl" "ring bearer" "first Dance",
etc.
Bridal
Scrabble
Use about 20 words (could
be less) that have something to do with "wedding". The words are
scrambled and everyone has 10 minutes to unscramble them. The person
who unscrambles the most wins the prize. Some examples of words:
bride, groom, bridesmaid, maid of honor, limousine, garter, tuxedo, flower
girl, rings, shower, honeymoon, church, reception.
Recipe
Box For The Bride
Include a recipe card with
each invitation. Have each guest write down a favorite recipe. The hostess
provides the bride with a new recipe box to put the recipes in.
Bridal
Shower Gift Ideas and Bridal Shower Favors
You don't have to spend
a fortune for bridal shower gifts and party favors. For reasonable bridal
shower favors, try Movie tickets,
bookstore gift certificates, or gift certificates for other stores and
restaurants too, bottles of wine or cordials, CDs, or DVDs, box of chocolate.
Bridal
Shower Invitations
You don't need to spend
a lot of money on bridal shower invitations. Many people have print
shop type programs on their PC, and these have built in invitation generators,
that are real easy to use. You can use these programs to print up
your wedding shower invitations. Also, don't forget to enclose a
map with directions to the wedding shower. Your local card store
also has pre printed bridal shower invitations and you just fill in the
blanks.
In the bridal shower invitations, ask each party guest to bring a kitchen gadget as a bridal gift that starts with the first letter of their first name (Be Creative). At the party, the guests will introduce ourselves with them.
Bridal
Shower Guests
If most of your guests don't
know each other, you'll want to have name tags.
We hope you have enjoyed this guide to bridal showers
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