*CLEAN* Bridal Shower games needed.

[Papa Deuce]

A friend of mine posted this on another forum. Can you help her?

My sister is getting Married at the end of December. And I am the maid of honor so I have a list of duties to do. One of them is planning the bridal shower. Now I haven't been to many but I need some family safe games. What I mean by this is my grandma and 14 year old cousin will be there.

I need clean games like the make a wedding dress out of the roles of toilet paper. But I can't think of any creative ones......so that is where I need your lady DJ/wife of the DJ's help. If you have been to one with a fun or interesting yet family friendly game please tell me about it. I appreciate all your help.

 

[cepmom]

when I was in my friend's wedding party, we did bridal shower bingo. Kind of lame, but helped put a little excitement into watching someone open presents, haha. I made up blank bingo sheets and had the guests fill in typical gifts they thought the bride would get in each square (towels, china, stemware etc). When the bride opened a gift they had written down, they marked the square. When someone got Bingo, they won a prize. There were some others too, maybe a trivia game about the bride and groom etc.

 

[WDWAurora]

A simple quiz about the couple is good, where they met, first date, how long they've been together, their favorite date activity, honeymoon location, where they got engaged, etc.

A quiz with tv married couples could be fun. I've seen that done with kids for baby showers, i.e. name all the Brady kids. You could do name a married couple from Full house...ok this one's sounding lame.

There are a lot of word searches online, you just have to search for them.

Put different kitchen utensils (i.e. tongs, spatulas, ladels, basters, etc) in non-see through bags and pass them around and let people guess what they are (sounds dumb, but it was fun).

 

[java]

YUCK! Hate the shower games as does everyone I know.
Don't torture your guests by making them play.

 

[meeskamouska]

We had the same situation at my sister's bridal shower. We did a game where the person whose purse weighed the most won a prize. And also made a list of unusual items that might be found in a handbag and gave them point values. The person with the most points won.

 

[Papa Deuce]

YUCK! Hate the shower games as does everyone I know.
Don't torture your guests by making them play.

"I" won't, but apparently my friend will!

 

[MineeBaby]

My bridal shower had my 7 year old maid of honor (younger half sister) and my 6 year old sister, as well as my grandmother and mother to name a few. So, we had a Hawaiian themed party (where we were going on our honeymoon) and had these tacky blow up palm trees and coconut cups to drink pina colada's out of (virgin and non virgin) and we had lots of tasty food and grass skirts and hawaiian music playing. For games, we played a ring toss thing and throw the bean bag into the hole kinds of stuff. It was very fun, though not a typical bridal shower by any means. Can't beat a grass skirt, tacky decorations, fun music, tasty food, and a lot of people who are happy to let lose and act like a kid.

 

[tzolkin]

I hosted a bridal shower for my SIL and they wanted to do games. There were kids and grandparents and we just did a few things. Two that I can remember:

Not a game, but fun if the bride is a good sport. My DD made up a quiz about the groom (he's my brother so I had some inside info, but she also just made a list of questions and called him for an interview-- make sure he doesn't tell the bride). They were questions like favorite food, birth weight, etc. Every time she got an answer wrong she had to stuff a large marshmallow in her mouth. It turned out she didn't know him as well as she thought and it was really funny for the rest of us.

For another game, we passed around a roll of toilet paper and told everyone to take as much as they normally use. Everyone was getting nervous about taking the right amount. One lady wrapped it around her hand about 10 times (as a joke) and I told her she wasn't allowed to use my bathroom. After everyone has their t.p. you announce that they are supposed to make something wedding related out of the paper. The bride chooses a winner. My grandma really got into this one and we had fun trying to figure out what she was working on. Although depending on the company it may not be totally clean-- one person made a candle, but some thought it was something else...

 

[clh2]

We had the same situation at my sister's bridal shower. We did a game where the person whose purse weighed the most won a prize. And also made a list of unusual items that might be found in a handbag and gave them point values. The person with the most points won.

The unusual items in a purse is a hilarious fun game! I also like the bridal bingo that another poster described!

 

[Pigeon]

Another vote to skip the idiotic games. Have some great food, something good to drink and just visit. It's much more fun than the forced awkwardness that always results from the childish games.

 

[KathyTX]

A Google search on "bridal shower games" returns lots of information.

 

[CamColt]

YUCK! Hate the shower games as does everyone I know.
Don't torture your guests by making them play.

Ditto!

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

I remember one that the girls at church played at my shower. They cornered Dh at after church and asked him questions about his family and his life and I had to answer those questions to see how much I really knew about him. It was kinda fun. That is the only one that I really remember.

I went to a shower once and we had to stand over an old galss milk bottle and drop clothes pins in and the one who got the most in won a prize.

Suzanne

 

[minniecarousel]

Yeah - we played the "TV Couples" game. We listed the couple - they named the TV show.

The tray with kitchen utensils. Everyone has about 30 seconds to look at it. the tray is taken away and they try to write down all the items.

Statements about the couple. Where they met, their first date - etc. (The MOH wrote up this one, and one of the statements was, they are already married - true or false! I was hoping "false", since as MOG, I didn't know about this!)

Everyone was a good sport.

 

[akhenaten]

we bought cut heart shaped (felt) pin s online..each guest was given one to wear.... at the end of the shower guests opened their heart and if the had a ring inside they got to take a centerpiece....

 

[Papa Deuce]

A Google search on "bridal shower games" returns lots of information.

Quite likely, but I wouldn't get the DISer's impressions for my friend.

 

[Papa Deuce]

The lady was hoping for a few more ideas... so if you have them, post them here. Thanks.

 

[disney1990]

I know one. When the Bride to Be is opening her gifts, somebody writes down all the works she uses to describe the gifts. "So this is just what I needed", "Oh it is So Cute", etc. Then later you read them back by announcing that this is what the bride is going to be saying on her Wedding Night. It comes out pretty funny.

 

[~disneydiva~]

This one is mainly for the bride, but its fun for everyone. call the groom and ask him a random bunch of questions. How old was he when he had his first girlfriend, what did he want to be when he grew up....

Another one we did at mine was a mad libs thing. My moh wrote a story about how we met and everyone got to fill in the blanks.