21 Creative Bridal Games to Play at a Wedding Shower
While the bride-to-be is busy with wedding planning, it’s time for you to plan an incredible bridal shower for her — including the best bridal games and activities ever.
If you’re excited to plan the kind of event that’ll bring your bride to tears (in the best way), keep reading. We’ll share all our favorite bridal shower games so you can find the ideal ones for your celebration.
How to Find the Perfect Bachelorette Party and Bridal Shower Games
There’s an endless amount of bridal games out there, but how do you know which are the right ones for your party? Here’s how to decide on your shortlist of the best bridal shower games to make it a memorable event.
1. Think About the Guest of Honor
First of all, consider the bride-to-be. Would she prefer games that are playful and hilarious or ones that are more romantic and traditional? Should the games be active and high-energy or suitable for everyone to enjoy while sipping a cup of tea?
Use what you know about the guest of honor to choose bridal games that match their personality, style, and aesthetic. It should be all about them and celebrating their love story, so the games should feel like they fit the vibe.
2. Consider Your Theme
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Your bridal shower theme should carry through the whole event — in everything from your bridal shower invitations to your party games. Whether you use printable party games or DIY your own, look for ways you can include the chosen theme.
If you’re hosting a greenery-inspired bridal shower, choose party games that include getting outside or feature nature-themed illustrations. If it’s a bridal shower tea party, choose games and activities that match the elegance and style of your event.
An easy way to help your party games fit with the look and feel of your event is to choose ones with a similar style to your party invitations. Greenvelope has so many online invitations to choose from — including this fun flower-themed invite. Once you’ve found your theme and aesthetic, seek out matching printable party games on marketplaces like Etsy.
3. Decide Whether You Want Premade or DIY
Think about whether you have the time, energy, and creativity to go down the completely handmade route or whether you want to lighten the load with premade templates and designs. It’ll help you figure out which types of bridal games work for your event.
For hosts that want to get creative, try coming up with your own cute signage for a scavenger hunt or doodling a design for the border of your printed party games. If you’d prefer an easier time, there are plenty of beautiful pre-designed party games to choose from.
21 of the Best Bridal Shower Games
Whether you’re hosting a traditional bridal shower or a contemporary wedding shower, there are so many fun games to play together. Here are some of our favorites to help you get started.
1. How Well Do You Know the Bride?
Hand the bride-to-be a card filled with questions and ask her to fill it out. Your party guests then fill out the same card. Reveal the bride’s answers to see which of her bridesmaids and loved ones know her best.
2. Who Did This?
Prepare a list of memories, events, and funny moments and hand out a sheet to every guest. Ask them to write down next to each line which half of the couple did it. See if they can guess who each embarrassing or interesting memory belongs to.
3. Bridal Shower Mad Libs
Take the traditional Mad Libs party game and create your own inspired version with a wedding theme. Write down a few lines — maybe of the couple’s love story or an imaginary scenario — and ask your guests to fill in the blank spaces to create a funny tale.
4. Name That Tune
Create a playlist of love songs and play them for your party guests. Ask them to name the tune they hear. The party guest with the most correct answers for the artist and song title can win a prize!
5. Wedding-Themed Trivia Quiz
For a traditional bridal shower activity that we still love, try a trivia quiz. Prepare a list of questions around wedding traditions, romance movies, and other love-themed categories. Split into teams or compete individually to see who knows the most about love.
6. Who Said It?
In this simple alternative to the shoe game, speak to the couple before the big party and ask each of them to make a few statements like “I’m the best cook” or “I fell in love first.” Create a game card that includes these statements, and ask guests to circle who they think said each one.
7. Toilet Paper Dress
Split the group into teams and nominate someone to act as the bride-to-be. Everyone else in the group races against time to use toilet paper to create a hilarious wedding dress for them. Don’t forget to step into the photo booth to snap some memorable toilet paper dress photos!
8. Scavenger Hunt
Create a mini scavenger hunt for your party guests by giving them a card with a list of items to find. Encourage them to scour the party venue, look behind party decorations, and explore every corner of the space to find them. Return back with a filled card for a treat!
9. Where Were They?
This is a bridal shower game idea that’s perfect for travel-loving couples. Print out some photos of the happy couple in different locations and ask guests to guess where they are in each image. It’s a fun way to share some of their favorite memories.
10. Guess How Many Candies Game
Get a giant glass jar and fill it with heart-shaped or love-themed candies. Then, put a piece of paper next to it. Ask your party guests to write down their guess for how many candies are in the jar. If they’re the closest guess, they win the jar of candy.
11. The Lingerie Game
Include a note on your party invites asking guests to buy an item of lingerie instead of a typical bridal shower gift for the bride-to-be that reflects their personality, and the guest of honor has to guess who it’s from. Asking everyone to buy lingerie to attend a bridal shower might feel like a big ask, so this is the kind of party game that works best for a group of close-knit friends or the bridal party.
12. Emoji Pictionary
Put a fun twist on this classic party game by giving guests a series of emoji pictionary games to guess. See if you can figure out what the emojis are saying and uncover the hidden message!
13. Two Truths and a Lie
Speak to the bride-to-be and ask them for two truths and a lie to share at the party. Your guests then have to try and decide which one is the often-surprising truth in this hilarious bridal shower game.
14. What’s in Your Purse?
Keep your guests entertained with a lighthearted game of “What’s in your purse?”. Hand out scorecards with both popular and unusual purse items, and ask everyone to total up their scores based on what they have with them that day.
15. Find the Guest
Prepare some game cards that feature facts about a specific party guest. Hand these out, and encourage people to ask around to find the guest that matches their game card. This is a fun icebreaker and a good way for your guest of honor’s loved ones to get to know each other better.
16. Bridal Shower Bingo
We love a simple game of bridal shower bingo! Make your own bingo cards or use printable game cards in a design that matches the aesthetic of your event. Sit down, play bingo, and hand out some fun prizes!
17. Would She Rather?
Print a list of “would she rather” questions (like “Would she rather take a vacation by the sea or in the mountains?”). See who knows your bride well by asking them to circle the option on the list that the bride-to-be would rather do.
18. Design a Wedding Dress Game
For a unique bridal shower game, hand out pieces of paper with a template wedding dress on it and some crafting supplies. Set a time limit and encourage guests to decorate their own DIY wedding dress. Hand out a prize for the best design, and your guests can also keep their work-in-progress as a bridal shower keepsake.
19. Musical Bouquet
In this twist on musical chairs, have everyone sit in a circle and pass around a bouquet of flowers. When the music stops, the person holding the bouquet is eliminated. Keep going until you have one person left standing (or sitting!).
20. When Was This?
Like the “Where was this?” game, this bridal game involves sharing photos of the bride-to-be and asking guests to make a guess — only this time it’s the age of the bride or what year the photo was taken in.
21. Themed Charades
Take the classic game of charades and make it bridal-shower-themed, with prompts that are all about love — like classic rom-coms. Watch people act out their prompt, and guess at the hilarious attempts to describe it in motion.
Host a Memorable Event with These Bridal Shower Games
The best bridal games are the ones that match the bride-to-be’s personality, what type of event you’re hosting, and your bridal shower theme.
It’s not just your bridal games that should match your theme, though. Extend the fun of the party even further with themed bridal shower invitations from our collection of stunning, customizable party invites.
