Brides games

Collect interesting—or ridiculous—information about the couple, then ask guests to guess the answers to your questions.

Consider typing out a multiple-choice quiz you can grade as guests eat cake , or conduct a Jeopardy! Questions can range from easy for fewer points to hard for more. Include questions like, "Where did the couple meet? Gather the names of your favorite celebrity wives and then write each name on a single index card.

Ask each guest to tape a card to their forehead—no peeking! Each guest writes the name of their dream celebrity date on a card. Everyone tries to match the date with the guest. For a more advanced game, have guests fill the other side of the card with their celeb date from hell; you have to guess not only who wrote it but also which side is which. To round out our list of unique bridal shower games, we had to include a game of tying cherry stems into knots.

Give each guest a little bowl of cherries and see who can tie the most knots with cherry stems in two minutes. For a little extra fun, soak the cherries in vanilla vodka overnight. Compile a list of tricky questions about the bride's other half. Have the guests guess how many questions the future Mrs. Whoever guesses the most questions correctly wins. This is one of those fun and useful bridal shower game ideas. Have pretty card stock and glitter pens ready to go.

Pass them out and have everyone write down their favorite date-night suggestion for the happy couple. After everyone reads their suggestion aloud, deposit them into a cute box that the bride can take home and use for future Friday nights. Grab a blank sheet of paper and ask a guest to write a single line of a romantic poem dedicated to the couple. Then fold the paper over, hiding the guest's phrase, and pass the paper to another guest with the same instructions.

Make your way through all the guests; then, in your best dramatic stage voice, read the disjointed poem the brides' guests have dedicated to their great love.

For this game, guests will whip out their phones for a cellular scavenger hunt. They'll search their phones and get points for each item they can find.

For example, allot one to five points for things like a selfie, a photo with the bride-to-be, the wedding date saved in your calendar, etc. Think musical chairs but with a bouquet. Have guests sit in a circle and pass it around. When the music stops, whoever has the bouquet is eliminated. The last woman standing wins. Divide the guests into teams of two and settle in for a rousing round of Pictionary. Remember that classic?

Each team writes down words on slips of paper and the other team must draw whatever the word is and get their teammates to guess it. In this edition, of course, all the words must be wedding-related. Playing Telephone is always funny—and it's made even more enjoyable when you start the "call" with a toast to the bride. Have each guest whisper well wishes to the bride and then sit back and listen to the funniest toast ever when the message reaches the last guest. Have someone gather intel from the bride on facts about their relationship or partner that pertain to numbers.

For example, how many wedding venues they looked at, how many children they want, or how many years ago they met. Then print the questions as facts with arbitrary numbers and have guests guess if the numbers provided are too high, too low, or accurate. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for Brides. At any time, you can update your settings through the "EU Privacy" link at the bottom of any page.

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The Gist: Think of it as a live game of clue. What to Prep: For each of the guests attending the shower, write up a juicy question revealing how they know the bride or groom on index cards. Example: "Who did Tim bring to the prom? How to Play: When everyone arrives, hand them a card and explain they have 30 to 40 minutes to come up with the answer to the question on their given card.

After swapping info and mingling, each person reveals their relationship to the to-be-weds. The Gist: It's the celebrity version of Catch Phrase. What to Prep: Have everyone write the names of about 10 to 20 celebrities on small pieces of paper and throw them into a hat or bowl. How to Play: Split guests into two teams. The first player from Team A draws a name, stands up and tries to explain the celebrity to her teammates without actually saying their name. If teammates guess correctly, the second player draws a new name and goes on as before.

Each team has one minute to get through as many names as possible until all the names are out of the hat. Shake up the next round and only allow players to use one word to define the celeb. Shop the Idea: Here's another prop that doubles as a sweet shower gift: Customize a sun hat for the guest of honor with her initials, the word "bride" or her future "Mrs.

Once the game's finished, flip it over and surprise her with it. The Gist: Try to stump your guests on the couple's "love story. What to Prep: At the beginning of the shower, the bride should share her "love story" with the group, bringing up key events where they met, how they proposed and so on. How to Play: After opening presents, the host surprises guests by asking questions about the story. Throw in curveballs with questions like, "How many times was 'love' used in the story?

The Gist: Guests "shower" the bride with marriage and love advice. What to Prep: Tuck a pretty blank card into the invitation for the shower and ask every guest to share their advice for a happy marriage. How to Play: Guests' advice can range from recipes, a poem or funny story, and so on. At the party, guests take turns reading their words of wisdom to the group and everyone tries to guess who gave which words of wisdom. When the cards have all been read, the host can compile them in a scrapbook as a keepsake for the bride.

The Gist: Everyone has to figure out what the bride and groom did with whom. What to Prep: Hand out index cards and have each guest write a description of their favorite memory with the bride the more adventurous, the better. The host will collect the cards. How to Play: After the host collects the cards, she'll take the bride on a trip down memory lane, speaking them all out loud. Everyone will have to guess who did what with the bride.

Examples: Who snuck out of the house with the bride for a high school party, or who met a celebrity during a weekend in Miami with the bride. The Gist: You get to eat cake and guess the flavors. What to Prep: Set up a "cake bar" complete with bite-size cake pieces mini cupcakes, cake pops or cut-up pieces of regular cakes will do and remember all the flavors. Write out the flavor of each type of cake on an index card and place it in an envelope behind the bite-size pieces.

How to Play: Each player is blindfolded and walks down the table with one of the hosts, who notes the player's flavor guess. The player takes sips of champagne between bites to cleanse the palate.

Of course, hosts can sip champagne at any point in the game! Whoever guesses the most flavors correctly wins. The Gist: Have guests answer extreme read: hilarious etiquette questions. What to Prep: On index cards, write out a few wedding etiquette question—the more outrageous the better. Think of some nuptial nightmares, like what do you do if the best man sprays champagne all over the guests?

Or if you accidentally knock into the wedding cake? Or if two bridesmaids get into a fight at the altar? How to Play: Hand out one etiquette card to each guest and have her write down an honest response to the situation. Then, have the bridal party gather all the cards and read the questions and answers aloud. The Gist: Works best at a lingerie shower. What to Prep: On the invitations, ask each guest to bring lingerie gifts that match their personality and style.

While the bride isn't looking, hang them around the room. How to Play: Once everything is set up, have the bride go around the room considering each item. Then, have her guess whom each gift is from. At the end of the day, she goes home with a new lingerie wardrobe perfect to bring on the honeymoon! The Gist: Make a wedding dress out of toilet paper What to Prep: For this bridal shower game, you'll need lots of rolls of toilet paper.

Spice up this game by purchasing markers, stickers or—if you are very brave—glitter. How to Play: Divide groups into teams of at least three people. One team member will be the model.

The other team members will have to make her or him a wedding dress out of toilet paper and your other decorating supplies. Set a timer for 10 to 15 minutes. When the time is up, the bride-to-be can choose her winner.

The Gist: Steal rings and try to collect them all What to Prep: Purchase a plastic wedding ring for each guest. How to Play: For this fun bridal shower game, present each guest with a plastic wedding ring to wear. Pick one wedding-related word that guests cannot speak, such as bride, love, or wedding.

If a guest overhears another guest speak the forbidden word, they can take that guest's ring. The winner is the guest with the most rings by the end of the party. The Gist: Guess where the happy couple is based on pictures What to Prep: Time to start hunting around on social media. Dig up a handful of pictures of the couple at different locations. Print them out and hang them up. You can punch holes in the pictures and hang them on a string, or tape them around the house.

Number each picture and print out a sheet of paper. How to Play: To start this bridal shower activity, give each guest their answer form and a pen and then ask them to go around the room and guess where the couple is bride and groom are in each picture. Make sure to be specific about what kind of answer you want. Are you looking for country, state or even the specific restaurant? An alternate way to play this game is to put all the images into a slide show.

Now that you have a few great bridal shower game ideas to consider, think about what else you need to do to make your bridal shower shine.

Our best bridal shower games are sure to be a big hit. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Want to add a little spice to your next date night?

The couples who play together, stay together, after all! To give you a little inspiration, we listed our favorite 20 couple games to play with your partner. Game on! Featuring a stunning design, this board game is as attractive as it is fun and you and your partner will have a ball trying to conquer it. In the first half of the game, you have to build up the streets of the city with a variety of oddly shaped creations. Next, in the second half of the game, the aim is to place more of your buildings close to the street lights than your partner does to light up the city.

In Tiny Towns , you get your own 4x4 grid on which to build up your town. For each building you create, you will get a certain number of victory points with the goal being to out-score your partner. Use the resources—i. The game ends when there are no more resources left for you to get. I Should Have Known That is an easy-to-play game for couples or larger groups. Packed with infuriating questions that you should know the answer to, this is a date night game that will unleash your competitive side.

Rather than getting points for each correct answer here, you lose points when you get one wrong. With more than questions, you should have hours of fun with your partner. Warning: You might get frustrated when you get these wrong!

Especially with questions like, "How long did Sleeping Beauty actually sleep? Love a good murder mystery? Noire is an Alexa-hosted, cinematic board game for adults. Together with your partner listen to the audio track and play along on the board and card game. Will you figure out who the murderer is before the clock runs out? The two-player game sees you each take on a character in your own story. First, you create a persona by drawing cards.

Read your cards and get to know your fictional characters. The aim of the game is to create a unique and entertaining love story. What makes the start of a relationship so thrilling is the endless questions you ask. With each answer, you come a little closer to uncovering the mystery of this new, intriguing person. You can choose to either focus on one specific topic or select cards from all of the above. Take turns picking a card and asking your partner the question on there.

Throughout the game, you take turns to answer a variety of questions such as, "What can I help you with? To spice things up, there are also wildcard questions throughout the deck, a couple "dig deeper" cards, and more. Next up, boost your intimacy with the 36 Questions in Love game. Interestingly enough, these questions were first used as part of a study on creating closeness between people.

Six months after the study, two of the participants got married, leading to whispers that the game could make people fall in love. Why not put that theory to the test for yourself? The website has the original 36 questions as a click-through game that you and your partner can play together.

To play the game, one of you has to read out the question, and then you both answer it. Switch roles for the next question, and so on. Starting off with light and fluffy inquiries, the questions get deeper the more you delve into the game.