Bridal Shower Party Games

Bridal shower is a meant to let the bride unwind and release all the pre wedding stress. Hence, this not only serves as occasion of gifts showering on the bride but also to show your love and make the bride feel pampered.This also serves as a get together to meet family and friends.

It is essential that you follow some basic rules for a bridal shower.This includes the people you would invite, venue, gifts, games, etc.All this should be as per the bride's preferences.Take the guests list from the bride. Normally, the bride would invite her close friends, immediate family and some close relatives.Some brides extend it to their in laws.It is your duty to call up each one of them and give them a formal invitation. It is a good event to get both the families together so that people from both families get to interact with each other at a personal level.

Bridal shower games serve as ice breakers for guests who do not know each other well.

Here are some tips for shower game basics :

• Choose about 5-6 easy games based on the number of guests. There could be some showers wherein everyone from the bride's niece to grandmother could be present. In such cases, you need to choose small pen and paper games that could be played by everyone.

• In some showers, only the bride's friends and cousins could be present. In this case, you can choose to play high activity games or DIY activities. Of course, this depends on the bride's preferences.

• Keep the games short and simple. One game should not exceed for more than 15 minutes. There are some games you could play throughout the event. For instance, crossing legs game or don't say it.

• For such games, rules should be made clear in the beginning i.e. the moment the guests enter the venue. These games get over only when the function gets over.

• Keep some awards for the winners for all the games you play. These awards may not be expensive but these could be utility gifts like mugs, kitchen utilities, linen, etc. You could even gift a pack of chocolates or candies.

• Some games are played with a point of view to gift the end result to the bride i.e. whatever product you make at the event like candles, flowers, etc; you gift that to the bride. This serves as one of the gifts to the bride that helps her decorate her new home. This is common in DIY showers.

• You could arrange small activities like making designs on linen or candles or any other useful item for the bride. In the end, you gift the product to her.

Bridal shower games should be just a part of the event and not the entire event itself. Although, playing games is fun, it is important for people to interact with each other, eat, chat, exchange gifts, etc. Hence, socializing is also an important part of this or any function. Hence, if you have the event scheduled for 2-3 hours you could play games for about an hour. Whatever games you play, the focus should be on the bride or the bride and groom if he is present.

Nowadays there are many bridal showers wherein the groom and his friends also participate. In short, these are couple showers. Hence, bridal showers are no more an "only women" function. In fact, it is fun to play certain games when everyone is present and when there are men and women both attending the event.

Bridal shower games serve as great stress busters. These games help keep the guests engaged for sometime apart from general conversations and eating. The games could be played for around half the time of the actual function. See to it that the games you choose are easy to understand, does not require a particular skill and can be played by people of all ages.