Bridal Shower Help!

pick a colour and go with it, I think its so cute when all the food and drinks have a colour theme :laugh:

Here's a good website I used for some reference for my sister's bridal shower.

http://www.bridalshower.com/

A few games -

1) Count the M&Ms - and you can order M&Ms on the website that say Congrats or something personalized in the wedding colors. Put them in a jar (you have to count them!) and have all the gals write down their guesses. The person who comes closest gets to keep the jar of candy.

2) No crossing your legs! Everyone gets a pink bow to wear. If you catch that person crossing your legs, you get to take their bow. The person with the most bows at the end of the evening wins a prize.

Those are 2 that can be done while everyone is socializing, so it doesn't take away from conversation, but they are still fun.

It will be fun! It is always a little nerve-wracking to be the one who has to plan stuff, but you will be fine and have fun. Do you have folks who can help you out with any of it or are they all too far away?

Here are a few games I'm looking at for a shower I'm executing in a couple weeks...

What the Bride Says

As the bride opens each gift, have someone write down what she says (without her knowing). After all the gifts are opened, have the person read her comments back. These are the bride's words to describe her wedding night. (Make sure your guests can handle this one!)
How to play: While the bride opens her gifts, a bridesmaid secretly takes note of the bride's exclamations. For example, "Oooohh it's so beautiful!" or "You'll have to show me how this works, okay?" When all the gifts have been opened, the mischievous maid will come forward and read the bride's comments to the group as the (sexy) things she'll be shouting out on her wedding night. ______________________________________________________________________

Clothespin Game

As each guest arrives, clip a clothespin to her clothing. If someone hears another person saying the word "bride", she gets to take her clothespin. The player with the most "pins" at the end of the shower, gets a prize.
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What is the Bride Wearing?

Let the bride know ahead of time. After everyone has visited for a while, the bride quietly leaves the room and listens from a spot where the guests cannot see her. Then ask the guests about what she is wearing. Is her hair up or down? Color of shoes? Outfit color? Ask as many questions as you can think of...then start asking about the bride's favorite color, TV show, food. Go around the room taking turns answering. Everyone who has not missed an answer at the end wins a prize.
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Happy Wishes

Provide envelopes and index cards. Have the guests write an event, holiday, or moment in the couple's life together. On the index card, write a happy thought or useful piece of advice. On the outside of the envelope, write the occasion that the bride should open the note. Examples might be wedding night, first anniversary, first child, first fight, first house.
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Word Scramble
Award the prize to the person with the most right answers.


Ohnomoney Honeymoon
Agrimaer Marriage
Dribal Bridal
Camphange Champagne
Wong Gown
Cactetifier Certificate
Uncetannmeno Announcement
Styhailer Hairstyle
Beblubs Bubbles
Rocitman Romantic
Subhand Husband
Fitg ksbeast Gift Baskets
Ridmedbais Bridesmaid
Lernate Eternal
Scragi Cigars
Slomi Limos
Gerthproopha Photographer
Werjely Jewelry
Wingded Wedding
Pechal Chapel
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Purse Raid

How to play: This classic shower game requires that every guest bring her purse to the shower (a given). Before guests arrive, the maid of honor creates a list of objects that are likely to be found in guests' purses. Items can be banal (lipstick, pill box, mints, video store card) or bawdy (used tissue, underwear, a condom), but they should start out ordinary and become increasingly more obscure. At the shower, the maid of honor calls out the items on the list and the first guest to produce each object wins a small prize.
Pointers: To get more mileage out of the game, you might want to play in installments, calling out objects at different points throughout the shower.
Instructions v2: Before the shower the hostess draws up a long list of items which you would expect to find in a woman's purse and allocates each item with a number of points from one to twenty, depending on how unusual the item would be, ranging say for one point for a comb to three points for a mirror and five points for nail clippers. Other items could be a driver's license, lipstick, key ring with more than five keys on, a key ring with more than ten keys on, more than five credit cards, more than ten credit cards etc.
If there are any items which are not on the list, or anything particularly unusual the bride and hostess could act as the judges to award a special points award.
A variation on this game could be to see who has the most items in their purse, or who has the heaviest purse.
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Two Truths & a Lie
Great for: Breaking the ice

How to play: Each guest must introduce herself and then tell the group three things about herself -- two are true, one is a lie. Then the remaining guests must each guess which statement was false. When each guest has placed her bet, the "liar" must confess to her lie. The truths are often way wackier than the made-up lies -- which creates opportunities for story swapping (and is generally hilarious).

Pointers: Shy guests needn't freeze with indecision when it's their turn. Advise them to theme the three statements. For example, "My first car was a navy Saab, I've been in five car accidents, and I got my driver's license when I was 26." In certain circles, this good-natured game can take a sexy turn. If you think this won't be appropriate, be sure to lay down some ground rules beforehand.
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Fold Over
Great for: Entertaining guests while the bride opens her gifts

How to play: On the first line of a long sheet of paper, write a sentence referring to the bride as if you were beginning a poem (example: "Tess and Toby met at the office"). Attach the paper to a clipboard and pass it to a guest, instructing her to compose a line right below the first, continuing the verse ("She was fair and he was swarthy"). This guest folds the paper so that only the newest line shows, and passes the clipboard to the next guest, and so on. When the paper has circulated to every guest, the maid of honor should retrieve the paper, unfold it, and read the zany, haphazard poem to the bride when she has finished gift-opening.

Pointers: The lines of the poem needn't rhyme. Also, try to theme the game around the bride and her upcoming marriage (but don't let on to the bride). When you read the poem aloud you can say something like, "Tess, we wrote a poem about you and Toby -- we think it really captures the true story of your love."
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