10 Fun Bridal Shower Games

Are you looking for fun bridal shower games that won’t bore your guests? These fun bridal shower games will help break the ice, keep your guests entertained, and still allow them to chat and watch the bride open her presents, too. Our favorite fun bridal shower game is the first one listed…Create a Calendar Activity.

Create a Calendar Activity

• Use a blank calendar from a scrapbook store to create a calendar for the bride and groom’s first year of marriage.
• Start at their wedding month with each person paired with another at the party creating a month and then pasting it in the calendar (instead of taking the pages all apart and risk pasting them in the wrong order or something). 
• Use pictures, stickers, quotes and words of advice, along with little things people can cut out based on the month, its holidays, and its meaning for the couple.
• Ask guests to bring a picture of the bride and/or groom to be included in the calendar.

Advice book

• Have a polaroid camera and take a photo of each bridal shower guest as they arrive.
• Put the photos in a book and have the guests give a little tidbit of advice next to their photo.

Scattergories

• Hand out pieces of grid paper to guests, with the bride’s first name written out across the top margin (example: LIZ).
• The left margin should list several categories (for example: flowers, cities, restaurants, household products, colors, etc.)
• Each bridal shower guest must then come up with fun words that a) fit each category, and b) start with the letters forming the bride’s name, writing them in the corresponding grid square (example: lilac, iris, zinnia…).
• They should be allowed no more than five minutes to complete their grids. When time is called, each guest must read off what they wrote.
• If other bridal shower guests have chosen the same words, the word gets disqualified. The goal is to acquire the greatest number of unique words.
• Award a prize to the winner of the fun bridal shower game.

Pointers:

• This fun bridal shower game can be both challenging and nerve-wracking, but that’s part of the fun. Also, debates over the validity of certain words inevitably will arise — the maid of honor may have to moderate.
• If the bridal shower game is well received and the crowd wants to play another round, choose words like “WEDDING,” “BRIDE”, “MARRIAGE”, and “GROOM.”

Fold Over

• Great for: Entertaining shower guests while the bride opens her gifts
• How to play: On the first line of a long sheet of paper, write a sentence referring to the bride as if you were beginning a poem (example: “Bridget and Erik met at a party”).
• Attach the paper to a clipboard and pass it to a guest, instructing her to compose a line right below the first, continuing the verse (”She was studious and he was a jock”).
• This bridal shower guest folds the paper so that only the newest line shows, and passes the clipboard to the next guest, and so on.
• When the paper has circulated to every guest, the maid of honor should retrieve the paper, unfold it, and read the zany, haphazard poem to the bride when she has finished gift-opening.

Pointers:

• The lines of the poem needn’t rhyme.
• Also, try to theme the game around the bride and her upcoming marriage (but don’t let on to the bride).
• When you read the poem aloud you can say something like, “Bridget, we wrote a poem about you and Erik — we think it really captures the true story of your love.”

Memory Lane Mysteries

• When you send out each guest’s bridal shower invitations, include a blank note along with a request to write down his or her favorite memory of the bride, groom or the couple.
• At the bridal shower, read each memory out loud and ask the bride and/or groom to guess which guest wrote it.
• From childhood memories to milestone moments, each card reflects the personal bond that each bridal shower guest has with the couple.
• Guests can include pictures of them with the bride or groom.
• The bride has a stack of personal keepsakes to cherish always.

Bridal Shower Dec-a-Cake

• Bake a batch of cupcakes, enough to give one to each bridal shower guest. 
• Give everyone a supply of frosting, candies and edible wedding decorations, and invite all to participate in a fun bridal shower cupcake decorating contest.
• Whoever has the most unique or exquisitely decorated bridal shower cupcake gets a prize.

Pin the Ring on the Groom

• Start with a poster-sized picture of the groom.
• For a traditional fun bridal shower, give each guest a faux wedding ring.
• For a more risqué lingerie shower, give each guest a pair of ladies’ lacy underwear.
• Blindfold your bridal shower guests in turn and give each a pushpin and a ring or a pair of underwear. For the ring, whoever pins it closest to his finger, wins.
• As for the cheeky lingerie, place hooks in strategic places on the poster; whoever throws the underwear on the craziest spot, wins—plus, the bride gets to add the lacy confections to her collection!

Read His Mind

• Test the bride and groom’s knowledge of each other to find out if they really are ‘of the same mind.’
• A week or two before the fun bridal shower, ask the groom twenty revealing questions about himself and his relationship (if planning a couple’s bridal shower, give the bride her own set of twenty questions to answer), and film the groom answering each question.
• Questions can be zany and/or sweetly romantic: “If you could burn one thing in your bride-to-be’s closet, what would it be,” and “What was the moment you knew she was The One,” are just a couple of great examples.
• At the bridal shower, ask the bride to guess her groom’s answer to each question. Then, play his videotaped response.
• Each time the bride gets it wrong, give her a ball of bubblegum to chew.
• The worse she reads his mind, the more gum she has to chew—before you know it, the bride can barely talk around the huge, gooey wad in her mouth!

Bridal Shower Bingo

• For this fun version of Bridal Shower Bingo you’ll need to create bingo cards with fun bridal shower-related words like the name of the bride, the date of the wedding, the name of the groom and words like wedding cake, rings, church, etc.
• Once the bingo cards are created, you’ll need to create the bingo balls. The bingo balls will actually be small pieces of paper rather than actual balls (unless you want to write the words on ping-pong balls and put the balls in a big bag).
• You play the game just like you would play regular bingo. The first person to get bingo wins a prize!

Thank You Card Game

• Upon arrival you have each bridal shower guest write down their name and address on a Thank You Card envelope.
• Then set a timer (this will be done 2 or 3 times during the shower) for 30 or 40 minutes.
• When the timer goes off, the addressed Thank You card envelopes and the shower honoree randomly picks one from the basket and that person wins a small prize.