subject: Bridal Shower- Fun Game Ideas To Start The Party [print this page] The bridal shower is an opportunity for the women in the future bride's life to honor her with a simple luncheon or get together filled with good food, fun and games.
A game that encourages the participants to get to know each other is always a fun game with which to start the party. One game you can play is known as the Name Tag Game which encourages guest to mingle with the other guests. In this game, the hostess writes the name of each of the guests along with a word related to weddings such as veil, favors, groom, etc on a name tag. The rules of the game are that you are not permitted to say the word on your name tag or else you lose your name tag to the person who got you to say the word. If you acquire one or more additional name tags you are tasked with not saying the words on either your name tag or the other tags. If you say the word on your tag, you need to relinquish it to the person who got you to say the word and if you say the word on one of the other tags, you also need to give that person the tag plus you need to introduce them to the person from whom you had acquired the tag.
There is usually a pre-determined time limit for this game and the person with the most tags when time runs out is the winner.
The Purse Game is another popular bridal shower idea. This is a simple game where the hostess draws up a list of items likely to appear in a woman's purse and assigns a point value to each item ranging from 1-5 depending on how unusual the item is.
The woman with the most points wins the game. Another variation of this game is to have a list of items and call out the items one at a time. The first woman to get each item and hand it to the person judging the game wins one point. After the whole list has been completed, the woman with the most points is proclaimed the winner.
Bridal Shower Bingo is another simple bridal shower game. This game is played just such as regular bingo except that instead of using letters and numbers for the spaces, each space is filled with a word or words that relate to weddings, love or marriage such as wedding dress, favors, eternal, true, rings, etc. The host makes up the bingo cards ahead of time and puts a piece of paper with each word used on the cards into a huge bowl.
During the game, the hostess will draw out a word and read it aloud and each participant will mark that square on their card.
The first person to complete an entire row, column or diagonal wins the game.
One bridal shower game that might be a real benefit to the bride to be is a simple drawing. The hostess may spend a few cheap gifts for the drawing and ask each participant to fill out an envelope with their name and address to enter the drawing.
This is a fun game because it offers the participants a chance to win a prize plus it really helps out the guest of honor because she can use the envelopes to send out her thank you cards after the party.
