Bridal Shower games?

**kelownagirl** · 08-03-2008, 02:38 PM

My daughter's shower is next week and her sister and I are trying to think of something for everyone to do during the shower. I haven't been to a bridal shower for 20+ years. Anyone know what activities are popular now?

**SouthernBelle** · 08-03-2008, 02:48 PM

Are games necessary? Can't people just socialize?

**shootingstar** · 08-03-2008, 02:57 PM

Well, this might be educational. Like you kg, I haven't been to a bridal shower..well even longer..probably 1/4 of a century.

Since I live thousands of kms. away, I even missed out on my sister's bridal shower. She got married 2 yrs. ago..she's 39 now. An intelligent woman with her own home even prior to marriage...so she wouldn't have tolerated mindless bridal games.

Maybe a short interesting DVD movie to watch together instead..that's kinda of chick oriented.

What does your bride-daughter like to do with her friends?

**BlueVet11** · 08-03-2008, 03:01 PM

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!

**colby** · 08-03-2008, 03:02 PM

Thinking back to the few bridal showers I've been to in the last couple years, I honestly don't think much has changed in the game department...

I think most of them were stolen from the internet. These ones sound pretty fun, and not totally cheezy:
http://weddings.about.com/od/thewedd...werGames_2.htm

Depending on your crowd, you could go with the "just socialize" method. One of my friends had one of those "chocolate fondue fountain" thingies and that was an amusing talking point.

**kelownagirl** · 08-03-2008, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by SouthernBelle

Are games necessary? Can't people just socialize?

That's what I said to DD...

**SouthernBelle** · 08-03-2008, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by kelownagirl

That's what I said to DD...

I always hated those games.

**kelownagirl** · 08-03-2008, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by SouthernBelle

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....

**Trek420** · 08-03-2008, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by kelownagirl

That's what I said to DD...

To which she replied ....?

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 08-03-2008, 03:40 PM

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** · 08-03-2008, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by 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'?

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** · 08-03-2008, 05:24 PM

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** · 08-03-2008, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

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** · 08-03-2008, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by 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'?

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** · 08-03-2008, 06:28 PM

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.

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