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My cousin's bridal shower is this weekend, and another bridesmaid and I are in charge of games. We don't want to do many, maybe 2 or 3, but I'm at a loss on what to do. I didn't do any at mine, and most of the showers I've been to also didn't have games. Help me!
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My aunt did a funny word-related thing for me though. She would write down random phrases that I said while opening gifts, and they all somehow turned out to be naughty. Then I was supposed to read them to H on our wedding night. It was funny and everyone had a laugh, especially me because I didn't remember saying that stuff.
I remember two shower games that I specifically liked participating in during bridal showers that I've gone to:
1) There was a vase placed on the floor about 6 feet from the starting line. Each participant would place a coin (quarter, nickel, dime, whatever you choose) between their knees and had to walk the distance to the vase without dropping it. Whoever got the coin into the vase successfully won a prize.
2) The party hostess had pulled 10-15 ads from magazines and cut out the brand/advertiser's name and the participants had to guess which brands the ads were for. Whoever got the most correct won a prize.
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1- 8 smelly candles with labels covered with numbers. You had to match the scent with the candle name. BTW: Vanilla = easy, Morning rain = no easy!
2- Tissue paper bride with tape and generic barbies. Each team of 2 got a doll, tissue and tape and had to make the best dress they could. Bride comes into the room and chooses the best dressed bride.
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Cut our pictures of wedding dresses and models from bridal magazines and then glue on famous celebrity faces, the people have to guess who the celebrity is. It was harder than I expected, especially when the face (not hair) was glued onto the wedding dress model. Snooki, Modonna, Kate Hudson, and Rachel Ray all made an appearance at my shower. There was a prize for the person who got the most right and for the person who got the least right.
This example only uses half faces (like eyes or lips) so it might be better for a younger, hipper crowd: http://pinkpetalseventdesign.blogspot.com/2009/02/bridal-shower-game-celebrity-brides.html
Guests pair up in teams of 2 or 3. Each team is given about 15-20 coffee filters, 10 wood squers (like the kind you use for shishkabobs - sorry that's probably a massive spelling error) and a thing of scotch tape.Teams must create a bouquet for the bride out of their materials. Give them about 10 minutes.
Teams then "present" their bouquet to the bride saying why the bouquet is a reflection of her (ahaha.. so much crap was made up at my friends shower) and the bride picks the winning team. Prizes awarded to the winners.
We also did bridal word scramble at the shower as well. I find this better then bridal bingo as I'm good at scrambles and can usually win. I like to win.
We may have been doing it wrong.
I've also played The Price is Right game.
Household items are shown one at a time (spatula, tea towel, bath towel, collinder, etc) and a small description is given of each item including the brand name. Guests write down their price guesses and then go onto the next item. At the end of the game the prices are revealed and the person with my most correct guesses (withint $0.25 but not over or whatever limit you want to set) wins. The bride gets all the items.
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It was really different, and everyone loved it.
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The winner got the centerpiece (which was a big basket shaped like a coffee mug filled with coffee goodies)
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[QUOTE]My friend hates shower games, so she had a timer set during opening of gifts and whoever's gift she was opening when the timer went off, they won a gift.
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We did this too. People were really excited for it. I had a lot of people at my shower which meant a lot fo gifts to open! So it kept people engaged.
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We did a complete the phrase thing where they were trying to match what I'd filled out earlier.
We also did wedding related scategories since that's one of my favorite board games. We used S, since that is what his last name starts with. The prompts were things like something you bring on the honeymoon, etc. That was a huge hit. Granted, it may have been a huge hit because we all play normal scategories regularly. I can send you the list of prompts if you'd like.
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