Need Bridal Shower Ideas!!

[coolbeans]

I've Googled and Yahoo'ed till I can't no more!!

Please tell me your favorite Bridal Shower game, food, memory... basically anything!! I'm hosting my first and have no clue what I'm doing!! HELP!

 

[rie'smom]

When we have baby showers, we serve a meal or have tea, coffee, and dessert depending upon the time of day. We don't have games. Everyone just enjoys talking. It's basically a ladies only cocktail party-except, of course, that the mother to be doesn't drink. At some showers, the hostesses ask that the guests deliver the gist ahead of time, then the mother to be opens them and they are displayed at the shower. At others, the honoree opens them while the guests are present.

 

[moet7]

I've Googled and Yahoo'ed till I can't no more!!

Please tell me your favorite Bridal Shower game, food, memory... basically anything!! I'm hosting my first and have no clue what I'm doing!! HELP!

Hi
I've played a game at a bridal shower where you match up famous couples. Like Sonny and Cher, Lucy and Dezi, you can get very creative with this and pull couples out of the past so that older ladies would know and then add some current couples and of course the bride and groom. I made it up as a matching game and the first person to finish received a gift basket with a bottle of wine, chocolates and a candle (a romance basket)

I also did a game that involved clues to describe a certain type of cake and you just filled in the blank. For example: This cake could be found under the sea "Sponge cake" or this cake comes from a place that is really hot "Devil's Food Cake" I'm sorry I don't have the entire list, but everyone seemed to enjoy it. The winner of this game got a gift basket with items in it to make Strawberry Short Cake.

I also played Bingo while the bride opened her gifts and when someone won I gave them a small gift. To do the bride bingo you have to know what the bride is going to receive, so I went on her registry and saw what people bought. I then made up the bingo cards to read "blue bowl" "green picture frame" "salt and pepper shakers" etc. and when she opened this item people were able to cross it off there card. It was fun for the ladies to have something to do while they watched her open the gifts and in my opinion it made them watch her open the gifts instead of sitting there and talking and not caring what she is doing.

Sometimes showers can get a bit boring and I thought having the bridal bingo keep the other ladies on there toes and paying attention.

I'm sure if you google bridal shower games you will get lots of things to help you out.

have fun with it!

sorry forgot you already googled your heart out over it!
Hope I was of some help!

 

[daisyduck123]

Oh shoot...I thought this was for a BABY shower!!

 

[coolbeans]

Oh shoot...I thought this was for a BABY shower!!

same concept... bunch of food, ladies, gossip and presents!

 

[redlight]

same concept... bunch of food, ladies, gossip and presents!

Yep. That's what you need for any good shower, wedding or baby. I'd skip the games, except possibly to keep in reserve as an ice breaker.

 

[madcam]

We played this game at my wedding shower and at a few other wedding showers for my friends (they were all couples showers)

The Feet Game:

We all sat in chairs in a row with our shoes off (had to remove any ankle bracelets and toe rings) and each of our significant others was blindfolded in the next room and then brought out by the "MC" of the game. The guy then went down the row and had to feel the feet/ ankles of each woman to find his wife/girlfriend. Not everyone participated, we just asked who wanted to play and at each shower there were probably 10-15 couples who participated with the rest of the guests watching and cracking up!! (No talking during the "feet feeling"!!) It was hilarious!!!

Of course this works better with cocktails and pedicures.....if you play this game you might want to give your female guests a heads up!!!

 

[Arielx2]

At my SIL's bridal shower I did a game where you had a question about a wedding situation written on a recipe card. Everyone got one and had to write down the answer. Then you had one person read their question and the person next to them read their answer. Then the answer person read their question, and it kept going around like this.

Everyone loved this game. Of course the answers were hilarious because they didn't match the question. It's a great first game to play.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I am not a fan of the games. I would rather sit and catch up with the guests. Any food is good but if the party is at home then lots of chippy dippy finger foods is good followed by a hearty meal. Maybe baked ziti, eggplant parm, sausage and peppers, chicken of some sort etc. Oh- and pasta salad and Italian bread. Sigh....I do love to eat!

ETA- One idea that I think is good is to get a blank journal and a pen and then pass it around to the guests. Ask them to write a piece of advice for the parents and a note to the baby and then give it to the MTB when the party is over!

 

[redlight]

I am not a fan of the games. I would rather sit and catch up with the guests. Any food is good but if the party is at home then lots of chippy dippy finger foods is good followed by a hearty meal. Maybe baked ziti, eggplant parm, sausage and peppers, chicken of some sort etc. Oh- and pasta salad and Italian bread. Sigh....I do love to eat!

I like the snacks followed by a hearty meal. But you left out the most important part: desserts. Must have desserts!

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

For the game they played at my shower, a couple of the girls pulled Dh aside after church and asked him a bunch of questions that I should know the answers to and then they quizzed me to see what I knew. I think that was all they did, it has been so long ago Those ladies were more about food a gossip, so games were kept at a minimum


Suzanne

 

[Pigeon]

Just serve some good food, and a little wine never goes amiss. Let people visit. Open presents. Visit some more.

The games are idiotic. Just skip them. No one will miss them a bit.

Whatever you do, do not have the guests address envelopes to themselves so that the bride won't have to be bothered when writing the thank you notes. That causes many elderly (and some no-so-elderly) guests to have apoplexy brought on by the sheer rudeness of the exercise.

 

[DisneyBrideToni]

At my shower they gave everyone a quiz to see how much they knew about me. Then we also played a game where we broke up the woman in sets of 5, gave them 2 rolls of toilet paper and they had to make a wedding dress. I had to pick the best dress. Whoever made the winning dress got a prize.

It was pretty fun. Everyone loved the wedding dress game.

 

[~disneydiva~]

Ask the groom a bunch of questions before the party. Favorite color, first kiss, dream vacation, as a child what did he want to be when he grew up...that sort of thing. Then ask the bride all the questions...Its always fun.

My friends made a mad libs story about my dh and I met. They just asked everyone for the adjectives, nouns, etc. It was funny.

 

[KT27]

My bridal shower was a bridal fiesta...we had margaritas, a blow up cactus, cactus cake, mexican food and sombreros...It was a blast!

 

[Kae]

When I threw a shower for my boss we did a brunch she loves breakfast. I did Breakfast cassrole, muffins, hash rounds(those are her favorite) fruit salad, Mimosas & cake. It was so easy. So I would find out her favorite meal.

Kae

 

[DISshopkeeper]

Just serve some good food, and a little wine never goes amiss. Let people visit. Open presents. Visit some more.

The games are idiotic. Just skip them. No one will miss them a bit.

Whatever you do, do not have the guests address envelopes to themselves so that the bride won't have to be bothered when writing the thank you notes. That causes many elderly (and some no-so-elderly) guests to have apoplexy brought on by the sheer rudeness of the exercise.

The only thing I would add to this excellent advice is open the gifts early on. So the people who really don't want to be there can leave sooner rather than later!

 

[koolaidmoms]

We are throwing a bridal shower in Mid-May. We are doing a simple lunch of chicken salad, some lunch meat, assorted cheese, rolls, bread and condiments. Our salads are green, pasta and fruit. We will place out some chips and have iced tea and waters to drink. We figure a nice simple buffet will be easiest.

Our games are the matching favorite couples in history, a movie game about famous romantic movies - This lady thought she had found the love of her life until she was bitten by an asp? The movie director's mom had the best line in this romantic comedy that spanned from meeting in college to adulthood?
And setting a time for a certain amount of time. The person whose present the bride is opening at that time wins a gift. (This if for the people who hated games!)

Have fun. Find out what she really likes and just go from there.

 

[wineguru6]

You know who has the best bridal shower ideas: Martha Stewart look up bridal shower in the search engine. She is amazing. I am an event coordinator and I use her all the time.

some things I have done:

Trader Joes: Pink Lemonade: very cute bottle
Quiches
Fruit Salads
Garden tea party Themes: ladies wear garden attire: bring an antique tea cup and saucer to give to the bride: then she has a collection of antique tea cups and saucers
Wedding cake cookie cutter cookies wrapped in cellophane w/bow as a party favor
Get the bride her own server for the whole day to get her what she needs
Don't do the stupid games: no one really likes those. Instead have everyone come with a good story about the bride..funny or sweet.

 

[DSNY4ever]

My best friend threw mine and she made a giant countdown calendar on a poster board (only the 40 days before my wedding). When people came in they wrote a little note or a piece of advice on a piece of paper that she had folded and numbered 1-30. The day after my shower she came over and she had stuck all of the notes in their spot on the calendar and each morning we got to wake up and pull of the card and see what the people wrote. We loved seeing it every morning. She had some extras since I didn't have 40 people at the shower so she wrote little love quotes on those. It was so much fun and she made the one on our wedding day all glittery and huge and it had a special note from her. I have now made these for all of my friends and I send it to them 30 days before their wedding (except I make all the notes, haha) and I put silly little things like "this morning tell each other what your dream date would be" or "this morning share your most favorite thing that your partner has ever surprised you with"- silly stuff like that. It's fun- but I'm a Disney fan so of course I love a good countdown!