Games are a fun way to break the ice and get the wedding shower guests talking, mingling and laughing with one another. Remember to keep the games short and sweet and have enough small prizes on hand to give both guests a prize if there is a tie.
Don’t Say Wedding – When guests arrive at the shower, you give them 3 clothespins (or other items that they can easily pin to themselves so that they don’t have to hold them). As you hand them their objects, warn them that if they get caught saying ‘wedding’ at any time during the shower, they have to give the person that catches them one of their clothespins. At the end of the shower, the guest who has collected the most clothespins is the winner. A great variation on this game is to give guests at a luau or beach-themed shower a lei when they arrive. They lose their lei if they are caught saying the word ‘wedding’.
Toilet Paper Wedding Dress – Break the shower guests into groups of 3 or more and give each group two or three rolls of toilet paper. One person in the group acts as the bride as the other group members design a dress on them made from the toilet paper. Give them 15 to 20 minutes. Then have a fashion show where either everyone votes on the best dress or the bride chooses her favorite toilet paper wedding gown.
How Old Am I? – Have either the bride or the bride’s Mom provide 8 to 10 pictures of the bride at various ages throughout her life. Hang them on a poster board and number them so that guests can write down on their own piece of paper what age they think the bride was in each numbered photo. The guest who gets the most correct answers wins.
Bride Trivia Game – Which one of your guests truly knows the bride? Before the shower, have the bride answer 10 or more questions about herself and provide you with the answers. Then at the shower, have the guests answer the same questions. The guest who gets the most answers right wins. Some question ideas are: Where did the Bride & Groom meet? Where did they have their first kiss? Favorite food? Favorite color? Weirdest habit? Biggest pet peeve? What color is her shirt? Are her fingernails painted?
Wear the Teddy – This game will really generate some laughs (and anxiety). Basically this is a twist on the classic hot potato game. You place a teddy bear in a brown paper bag and seal it up. Then tell your guests to pass the bag from person to person as fast as possible because whoever is stuck holding the bag when the timer goes off has to wear the teddy! They’ll be frantically passing the bag they think holds a lingerie teddy. Just set an egg timer out of sight for 30 seconds to 1 minute.