Printed Paradise: Planning a Fun Bridal Shower

If you're planning a wedding or bridal shower then take a look below for some useful information!

To keep your guests entertained take a look at these free bridal shower games.

Bridal Shower Bingo!

This is a traditional bridal shower game which is easy to play and always popular with guests.
Print out each of the fifteen bingo cards plus the list of words from the links below. Cut up the list of words so that they can be pulled out of a hat.

Give each shower guest a card or have them share a card. The bingo cards have words which are associated with weddings, romance and gifts.

The host usually acts as bingo caller and pulls the pieces of paper with the words printed on, from a hat or dish and calls out the word.

When a guest has the word on her card then she marks it off with a pen or pencil. The first guest who can mark off a complete line either horizontally, vertically, or corner to corner, shouts out 'Bingo!' and is the winner of that game.

For the free printables (cards and words) click here.

Cotton Ball Bridal Shower Game

To play this shower game you will need two large bowls, one of which should be filled with white cotton balls plus a large kitchen spoon and a cloth to use as a blindfold.

Each guest in turn competes in this game. Blindfold the guest and give one minute to transfer as many cotton balls from one bowl to the other just using the kitchen spoon.

Make a note of how many of the cotton balls each guest can transfer in exactly one minute. The guest who transfers the most cotton balls is the winner.

Due to the fact that the spoon is quite heavy and the cotton balls are quite light it is very difficult for the guests to tell whilst blindfolded whether they have anything in the spoon, consequently they will spend most of their time transferring an empty spoon.

This is a very amusing game for the other shower guests to watch.

Famous Couples Bridal Shower Game

With this game write a list of one half of a famous couple, real life and fictitious, guests try to guess the other half of the couple

For instance the couples could be Michael Douglas and Katherine Zeta Jones, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Popeye and Olive Oyl, George W Bush and Laura, Napoleon and Josephine, Nelson and Lady Hamilton, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Prince Ranier and Grace Kelley, Homer and Marg Simpson, Al Gore and Tipper, Father Christmas and Mary Christmas; and so forth.

Guest fill out the answers in a note pad the guest with the most correct answers receives a small prize.

Don't Say or Do Bridal Shower Game

This is a very popular and fun game for parties which gets guests who don't know each other to mingle and become acquainted.

The hostess gives each of the guests a clothes pin to attach to their clothing. Then the guests are told that there are three words which you have previously chosen, which they must not say.
These words could be the words, 'bride', 'groom', 'wedding', or any other words which you may decide on and which they are likely to say at a bridal shower party. If a guest says one of these forbidden words another guest who hears them can demand to receive their clothes pin. At the end of the game, which can last throughout the party, the person with the most pins is the winner.

A variation of the game is where the guests are told that they must not cross their legs or ankles. If they do this then they can be penalized by another guest, who spots them, who can then claim their clothes pin. Again the person with the most pins at the end of the game wins.

Two Truths and a Lie
Everyone introduces herself, and tells the group three things about herself; two are true, one is a lie. The audience then writes down or shouts out which one they think is a lie. If a guest is shy, the host should whisper in her ear some ideas for the lie.

First Kiss

Everyone remembers their first kiss.

The bride should start by telling the story of the first time she and her fiance kissed.

Each guest can then tell their story of their first kiss with their husband or boyfriend.

If there are younger guests, they can tell a story of how they imagine that their first kiss will be like.

Everyone can vote on the most romantic story and the funniest!

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