Bridal Shower Game Ideas

A bridal shower is the perfect occasion not only for showering gifts, but also love and blessings on the future bride for her married life. It is a common practice in the United States and Canada to arrange a party in the honor of the future bride. A bridal shower is a colorful ceremony that gives the future bride an opportunity to celebrate her happiness with her closest friends and relatives.

Arranging a bridal shower party for the first time can be a bit difficult. This would generally require a complete plan that includes everything right from the party location, decorations to themes and games. As far as the themes are concerned, they could be either wedding themes or anything ranging from tea parties, movies, wine tasting to some ethnic themes. If you have selected a theme for the party, then you can incorporate it in every other aspect of the party, like decorations, food and even the games. Games are one of the most effective ideas to make the party thrilling and entertaining.

Games to Play at a Bridal Shower Party
The first game of this party should be ideally a party icebreaker game that can give the guests an opportunity to get familiar with each. This purpose can be achieved with a simple game like 'Who Am I'. This game involves attaching a card on which a name is written to the back of each guest. The names selected can be anything, but choosing the names of famous celebrities would make it more interesting. While attaching these cards or name tags, make sure that the guests cannot see the name tags attached to their back, but the others can. Now let them ask each other for some clues to find out their names. The first person who would be able to find out his name would be the winner of this game.

To play a creative game, divide your guests into several groups in such a way that each group contains at least three members. Now give each team some toilet paper with which they have to make a bridal or wedding dress. This popular game is known as 'Toilet Paper Wedding Dress. Allow a time period, say 15 to 20 minutes to perform this activity and prize the team which will come up with the most beautiful and creative wedding dress.

'Caught in the Middle' is a famous party game, which would fill your bridal shower party with warmth and laughter. Make everybody sit in a circle, and then provide an item like a bag or balloon to one of the participants. Now play your favorite music and ask the guest to pass the balloon or bag to the next person sitting besides him/her. In this way, passing of the balloon or bag would continue till the music is stopped. The person found with the balloon as soon as the music stops would be the one to get caught in the middle, and should be made to perform an activity asked by the guests as a penalty. To make the game more enjoyable, ask the guests to do some funny and amusing activities.

Another simple, but entertaining game is the 'Purse Game'. To play this game, make a list of items that are more likely to appear in a woman's purse. Assign a specific point to each item, generally more points to the most unusual items. The guest who scores the maximum number of points by naming the items to be commonly found in a woman's purse would be the winner of this game.

'Charades' is widely popular throughout the world and is suitable for any type of party. This game is usually played by dividing the guests into two groups or teams and each member of the two teams has to perform a mono act at a time to communicate the name of a particular movie. The name of the movie is given in secret, so that it is known only to the performer. The individual cannot utter a single word while doing this mono act, i.e. he has to communicate only with gestures. The other members of the team have to guess the movie's name by observing the act. For each correct guess, each team would score a point. At the end of a given time period, the team which can guess the maximum number of correct names wins this game. This game is not only entertaining, but requires a high level of intelligence and discerning abilities.

These simple ideas will help make your party a truly memorable event. While playing these games, do not force anyone to participate, instead make these games so interesting and attractive that your guests come on their own to play.