Bridal Shower games?

[SouthernBelle]

Are games necessary? Can't people just socialize?

[BlueVet11]

Try www.theknot.com I'm pretty sure thats where the bridesmaid who threw my shower got her ideas from.

We played a couple games but mostly socialized. One "game" was who's brithday was closest to mine and another was who had known me the longest excluding my mother.

The last game-- she put 10 household items in a pillowcase (like a whisk, potholder, ice cream scoop, candle, etc) and you had umm 30 seconds I think to memorize what was in the bag. Everyone got a look, then you had something like 2 minutes to write down what you could remember. Person with the most items wins. I could be totally way off on all the timing though I don't really remember.

Every game had a little prize.

Good luck!

[kelownagirl]

Are games necessary? Can't people just socialize?

That's what I said to DD...

[SouthernBelle]

That's what I said to DD...

I always hated those games.

[kelownagirl]

I always hated those games.

Me too. Especially hated to wear a paper plate hat with all the bows stuck to it. But then I'm probably dating myself...

I like one of the games I saw - I set up a bunch pics of Angie that everyone has to guess how old she is in each one. I have some pretty funny pictures....

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

How about everyone just preparing a nice meal together and then eating it?

Maybe watching some of those funny 1950's teen Hygiene Class movies on the 'Dangers of Petting'?

[wolfak]

How about everyone just preparing a nice meal together and then eating it?

Maybe watching some of those funny 1950's teen Hygiene Class movies on the 'Dangers of Petting'?

Dangers of petting! That's so funny!

My aunts threw my shower and we played a few of the corny traditional games - smell the spices, purse treasure hunt, coming up with words from the happy couple's names, and the stupid clothespin game! That one was the worst. Basically you had three clothespins and if someone caught you crossing your legs they took them from you.

I would suggest the spice game. Just get a spice rack with spices, number the bottles, take off the labels and make everyone guess what they are, but of course, the bride gets to keep the spice rack in the end.

Also, if you have prizes for games, try and pick things the bride would use/want/need. In my family, it's super huge to give the game prizes back to the bride. I ended up with five candles because that was the prize for each game. I don't know how they didn't notice that.

Ohh, but my best shower thing was the quilt. My aunts picked out the fabric and got one of my cousins to piece it. At the shower, everyone took turns tying it. Between the shower and the wedding, it was bound around the edges. It was like the best thing ever!

[KnottedYet]

I like the quilt idea! Very cool and meaningful.

The only game I know of is the "make a wedding dress out of TP" game, and only cuz three people at work did it.

[Trek420]

Maybe watching some of those funny 1950's teen Hygiene Class movies on the 'Dangers of Petting'?

Like this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVY89QMogVM

it's a little to late for dating advice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhLcO...eature=related

[uforgot]

How about everyone just preparing a nice meal together and then eating it?

Maybe watching some of those funny 1950's teen Hygiene Class movies on the 'Dangers of Petting'?

Or you could watch MST3K's short "How to go on a date". As for games? Please don't subject the people attending to those. They truly don't want them. Trust me.

[bmccasland]

I'm one of those wet blankets that despises shower (bridal or baby) games. But BlueVet's things in a pillowcase sounds like fun. And Wolfak's spice game sounds like fun too. And if you could find them, the 1950's and 60's films would be amusing.

And if there's going to be an underwear modeling, it better be by the Chippendales.

[kelownagirl]

The shower as a success tonight. We skipped the majority of the games although we couldn't resist a version of the toilet paper wedding dress. It turns out the bride had a meltdown this afternoon when she tried on her wedding dress and it was a disaster that likely can't be repaired (long story). But by the time the shower began, she had refocused her mind and was ready to go with a new dress plan (that includes skipping work tomorrow to shop all day). Not surprisingly, a lot of the conversation during the evening revolved around the wedding dress. Ultimately, we had the bride herself create a toilet paper wedding dress on her Grandma and we decided it was good enough to be able to a backup on the wedding day if she can't find anything else.

The most successful "activity", and one I would recommend to others, was when we secretly had one of the bridesmaids write down many of the phrases the bride said while she was opening gifts. "What is this?", "Oh, it's so soft!", "Pass this around and feel the fur", "He isn't allowed to touch them" etc... And then at the end, the bridesmaid read them aloud to all of us as if they were the things the bride would say on her wedding nights. There were gales of laughter on that one.

Thanks again for all the ideas and advice.

[Trek420]

That's what I said to DD...

To which she replied ....?