Bridal shower game ideas – creativity plus participation plus laughter equals great ideas.

No matter what you decide, there are a few keys to picking bridal shower games for your guests that will work universally. Consider these thoughts as you come up with criteria for what you’ll play.

• All your guests may not know each other as well or at all.

• Your guests may span a wide range of ages.

• Your guests may not have the same comfort level with certain subjects (Note: this particularly concerns suggestive games. Honestly, these types of games are low rent and contribute more to embarrassment than support and mutual fun. They can even be hurtful, though you’ll never know it because the person probably won’t say anything. Our advice: take the high road and avoid them at all costs.)

With these thoughts in mind, you’ll be a lot more successful picking bridal shower game ideas if you strive to help everybody to have a good time together, break the ice, and share common experiences.

Read a few of these and you’ll get the hang of it quickly enough. The best ones are simple, quick, fun, and allow for maximum participation. Even if you use a game that involves writing something down, make sure the guests read their answers out loud. After all, that participation is what makes the games fun. Take some of these bridal shower game ideas and tailor them to your own theme or create variations of your own!

1. You can write topics about marriage on pieces of paper or cards for guests to draw from. When a person picks a subject, she can give advice, a story, or a wish for the new bride about it.

2. You can come up with a lot of bridal shower game ideas by varying this game idea. Make a list of wedding or marriage related words and scramble them. Give guests pieces of paper and a few minutes to unscramble as many words as they can. Give prizes to the ones who unscramble the most words.

3. Making an advice book is a fun bridal shower game idea that provides a memento for the bride to be as well. Send a blank card with each bridal shower invitation and ask guests to write a small saying or piece of advice on the card. At the bridal shower, you can have the guests read their piece of advice out loud and have fun with talking about the ideas. You can also give them to the bride to be and have her guess who wrote which piece of advice.
   • Take it a step further by putting the cards together in a nice little album or book along with the signature and well wishes of the shower guests.

   • You can also take Polaroid pictures and put them in an album or even a small wedding guest book with the pieces of advice and signatures of the guests. There are a variety of instant photo guest books available that have special slots for Polaroid pictures and room for signatures and advice. You can even add an engraved plate on the book to make it that much more special.

     

   • These digital photo guest books are great for bridal showers because they have room for a big picture on one page and a lot of room for writing on the opposite page. This leaves a lot of possibilites for taking group photos or using candid photos from good times in the past and writing about them on the opposite page.

4. If you have a funny bunch of guests, you can get a lot of laughs out of this bridal shower game idea. Take the bride’s and groom’s names and write them on pieces of paper. Set a time limit and have guests come up with words from those names. Give prizes to the people who find the most or the funniest names.

5. First, create a scenario. For example – let’s say the groom accidently saw the bride before the ceremony and was so flustered that he spilled motor oil all over the bride’s new dress. Split the guests into groups and have them quickly create a new dress for the bride (one member of each group has to wear it while the others create it) out of something of your choice – crepe paper, toilet paper, tape, etc. Give a prize to the best team or “bride” and take lots of pictures.

6. Take pictures of brides and grooms from bridal magazines but replace the faces with celebrity faces from other magazines. You’ll have a lot of fun making hilarious pictures and your guests will have a lot of fun writing down the names of who they think the stars are. Make sure to discuss the results out loud for lots of laughs and give prizes to most correct, least correct, or funniest answers.

7. For kitchen theme showers...if you have a large kitchen, here is a fun idea that will make for good pictures and good food, too. Find a recipe for a unique treat of some kind that would be good to eat at the shower. Then, break the recipe down into steps that you can divide among the guests. It will get everyone working and talking together while creating laughs, great pictures, and hopefully great food. If you really want to go all out, have a chef come over and give a little lesson on how to make some unique dish that you can enjoy at the shower.

8. If your guests know each other pretty well, you could have each one bring a baby picture of themselves, or a kid picture, a wedding picture, and so on - you get the idea. Put them all out on a table with a number beside them, have your guests write down who they think each person in the picture is. Give prizes to the guest with the most correct answers.

It’s that simple. You don’t even need to buy anything. You can make do it yourself games with a little imagination and make your own game prizes, too.