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Who
Wants To Be The Bride
Here's how the "Millionaire" game
can be adapted to your wedding shower. Rather
than a million dollars, you offer a mystery gift
in a nicely wrapped box. First come up with 15
questions about the bride and the groom that
will lead to stories about the future couple.
Then, get the correct answers add make up 3 incorrect answers
for each question. Before you play, organize the
questions from easy to difficult.
When To Play:
Before opening
gifts everyone is given a pad and paper and the
1st question is read and 4 answers are given,
put the answers on a large piece of paper for
everyone to see (one page per question). Each
guest writes down what they believe the correct answer,
should take 15-30 seconds. Now everyone shows
the answer answer they selected. Those who answered correctly continue
to play. Now the bride-to- be can expand on the
question (How did you first meet?) while opening
the first gift. The questions continue until
there is just one person playing and she
receives the gift. Note: 1
question is read before the opening of each
gift. The combination of hearing the stories
behind the question keeps this part of the
shower interesting for all.
Don't say
"BRIDE or WEDDING"
Each guest receives a clothes pin as they arrive and
it is explained to the guests only once: If you catch someone saying the word
'bride or wedding' you can take their clothes
pin. At the end of the shower the quest with the most
clothes pins wins a small favor or gift.
Word Scramble
Use a sheet of paper to create the original
list, then either print out the master copy or
photocopy the sheet for your guests.
Come up with a list of wedding items on a piece
of paper, 15-25 is good. Look over the list and
determine which 10-15 would be fun for a word
scramble (if you used all the letters in the
word, but placed them in a different
order.
Example: wedding gown - would be dinwged nowg.)
Give the guests the sheet to unscramble and give
them 5-10 minutes to figure out. The quest with
the most correct wins. Increase difficulty: Use
bride's last name or future name-to-be.
What's in a Name Game
Ice-breaker: You need pieces of paper with just
the brides name (first and last if the name is
short) on it and the rest of the can be blank or
have numbers listed where the words, that they
create can go.
For this game create teams of 2-3 people, try to
match people that don't know each other. The
instructions are that each team comes up with as many wedding terms
from the bride's name as possible. Recommended
time 5-10 minutes. The team
with the most real words that relate to the
wedding wins.
Make easier: Create any words, in this case
allow only terms 4 letters and over.
The Wedding Dress Game
The guests are divided up into several groups
and given a roll of toilet paper. The teams are
told that they must create a wedding dress using only
the roll one toilet paper. One member of the
team becomes the model and the rest decorate.
Give them 3-5 minutes to create the dress. The
bride will judge that results and declare a
winner. Make sure to have the camera ready for
this one. A
great way to get everyone involved.
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Penny
For Your Thoughts
Introduction Game - Have two pennies from
the same year, you have a different year for each
guest. Example:15 guests, 30 pennies, 15
different years. When a guests arrives they are
given a penny and the other penny is put in a
jar. When all the guests have arrived the
bride-to-be selects a penny and the person with
the penny with that corresponding year tells a little about
themselves, how they know the bride, and maybe
a little story about the bride. After everyone
has spoken the Bride-to-be puts her pennies into
the jar and selects one to win a prize. An easy
ice breaker game.
Jelly Bean Guess
Fill a jar with jelly beans or nuts, and have the guests guess the number
it took to fill it. The guest closet to the
real number - gets a prize.
Mystery Guess:
Place odd shaped shower themed items in brown paper bags. The guests have to guess
what is in each bag without opening it, but they
can see how heavy it is and touch it. Note: Do
not put shape items in the bag.
Thanks-
Connie
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Hot Potato
Have
your guests sit in a circle and hand out a box.
Tell your guests that they must pass the box
around the room and when the music stops or a
timer goes off the
person with the box wears, carries, completes
the action noted in the box for the
remainder of the shower. Examples: Wear a rose,
carry a camera, wear a funny hat, say a phrase
every time someone says bride, the guest must
say "to be married on June 14th." Got
the idea, you can adapt it to what works for yor
shower. Most guests will think there is something bad in
the box, but can be whatever you want. For
more fun have more than one box with a fun item
in one, a silly item, an action item, etc...
Enjoy watching them pass
the box like crazy.
Bride Leaves the Room
Ask the bride to leave the room.
Have a sheet with 10-15 questions about the
brides eye, hair, height, shoes, etc... that
involve visual elements. The guests answer the
questions on the form, after a few minutes the bride walks back in the room
and everyone determine how many answers they got
correct. The guest
with the most correct answers wins a prize. In
case of a tie, have a tie breaking
question.
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Get
Things Started
When the guests first arrive have them fill out a piece of paper with their
wedding date or if they are single, their birthday. The person with the date
closest to the bride's wedding date wins a prize.
Pass The Carrot
Pick a long carrot and each person has to pass it to the person beside them...between their knees!! Every time
someone drops it you have to cut off about an inch. And when the carrot is so small that you can't pass it
anymore the person who has the carrot at the end without dropping it wins.
Thanks
- Rachael
Guess the Spice
Get 10 or more different spices, new containers.
Cover the outside of the container, so you
cannot read the name and attach a name to each
spice. When everyone has arrived pass the
spice around one at a time. You can say your guess out
loud after everyone has smelled the spice or have them write their answer on a piece
of paper. The paper method tends to work best.
After all the spices have been passed, announce
the number and have each person state the state
their answer. Then remove the label and give the
correct name. Give a prize to the guest who
got the most right and give the spices to the
bride.
Bake Us A Cake
Set up a table with all the ingredients for baking a
cake (flour, sugar, eggs, etc) then add a few
extra ingredients that don't belong - baking
soda (often confused with baking powder), spices,
oil, etc... anything goes. Then supply all the
tools for mixing and baking the cake. The bride is than told she must make a
cake, from scratch. The bride is not allowed to
use a book, she must use her memory or just be
very creative. She must tell an assistant how
much of each ingredient should go into the cake and how long to bake
and at what temperature the cake should bake at. Do this at the beginning so the cake will be done baking when she is finished
opening gifts. It is then taken out of the oven for her to taste test.
Make sure the camera is ready when she takes her
first bite.
M&M Game
Pass around a bag of m&m's, have everyone take how many as they wish. When everyone is done,
they then have to tell one thing about the bride or groom for how many candies they have in their
hands.
White Stuff
Fill sandwich bags with the following cooking items: flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda, powdered
sugar, cornstarch, cream of tartar, powdered milk, unflavored gelatin, Bisquick. Number each bag
and keep a list. Guests are allowed to feel and look at the bag, but not open it. They guess what is
in each bag. The person with the most answers gets the prize.
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Marry Me!
For the bridal shower, have five or six
friends dress up as people the bride could have married but
didn't. Examples include the super-rich dashing playboy, the surfer dude and
the president. Each of them gives a little speech in turn to convince
the bride why she should pick them. The winner receives
a small gift.
Thanks - Ing Wei, San Diego, CA
Bride's Auction
Hold an auction.... Go to a discount/dollar store and purchase a bunch of inexpensive door prizes.
Wrap them up in different ways so you can't tell what they are (a
little gift in a big box for example). Each guest starts with an envelope
with about $15 of play money in an envelope. Give everyone the chance to
win a few more dollars but asking to be shown items that they may have in
their purse (a tube of lipstick, a kleenex, etc) Each item is worth another
dollar. Being bidding each item at $1 with a true or crazy clue to
what the prize is (A box of kleenex could be something like, Don't cry for
me Argentina... Who will bid $1? Highest bidder wins the prize....
Thanks - Rose, St. Mary's, PA
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