Wedding Tactics

Bridal showers these days vary greatly depending on who is giving them and who is being honored. Some ultra-girlie showers include many games while others are slightly more on the conservative side, offering a luncheon, a high tea, gifts and just simple conversation. Also? There are some that feature a little bit of both sides and everything in between.

My bridal shower consisted of the women invited to my wedding who live locally, a few coworkers who have yet to be invited (limited spacing and finances being the reason), and some friends of my mother-in-law and friends of my aunt-in-law who gave me the shower. I am a bridesmaid in my friend’s October ‘07 wedding and I have been asked by her Mother-in-Law’s friends to help plan that shower which will consist mostly of not-invited-to-the-wedding friends of the groom’s mother. So, shower’s can be given and hosted by anyone who is willing and able.

Some of the games that I have seen played:

1. Toilet paper wedding dress. The crowd is broken into teams and they choose one lady who models a wedding dress made out of toilet paper that her teammates create. A winner is choosen and little token gifts are given out.

2. Trivia! Someone creates a trivia game about the darling bride and the guests have to guess and whoever gets the right answers gets a token gift. Examples of questions: 1. Who knows something about the bride’s sex life? 2. What is the bride’s favorite pair of underwear? 3. Where did the bride and groom go on their first date? 4. Where did the proposal take place? And a host of other tailored to the bride and groom questions.

3. As the bride opens her gifts, someone creates a hat or a bouquet out of all the ribbons from the gift packages. The bride then has to wear this for the remainder of the shower, or if it a bouquet, she can use it as her bouquet at her rehersal in the coming weeks or months. This is me … a blush bride, holding a hodgepodge of ribbons and bows which is supposedly practice for holding the real bouquet.

4. BINGO! Bridal Themed and Love Themed. Theses games are available at WeddingChannel.com.

5. Last, but definitely not least, there is Bridal Shower Lottery, a fun and conversation invoking game.