At my shower they played "Guess that song", in which they played love songs that are used at a lot of weddings (things like "Endless Love" and "My First, My Last, My Everything," and lots of older stuff from like the 70s so that the older guests could get into it). We also played "Guess the other half" (or something like that), where there was a list of famous people and you had to guess the name of their spouse.
They both went over well because the older people were familiar with a lot of the songs so they weren't alienated, and the younger people are really trivia-savvy and loved trying to guess the spouses of some of the more obscure people.
I also appreciated it because they were played while I was opening gifts, so it gave the guests something to do other than stare at me, and I didn't have to deal with being the CONSTANT center of attention. It was a surprise shower so I had no idea it was coming, so I was more than a little taken aback when I walked into my parents' house and was greeted by lots of yelling and applause and laughter. I get a little anxious in large crowds, so it was hard on me to be surprised like that, and the games as a distraction for people was a life-saver!
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The Clothespin Game To begin, choose a "buzz word" such as bride, groom, wedding, etc. When each guests comes into the party, hand them a clothespin. Then, if someone hears another person saying the "buzz word," they get to take that person's clothespin. The person with the most clothespins at the end of the party wins. (Another variation is that a guest loses her clothespin when she crosses her legs, a hard task for a party full of women!)
For mine, one of my bridesmaids made up a quiz about my fiance and I--an extremely tame, G-rated quiz, because both our mothers and some older aunts were there. She included sections she thought some of our friends would know better, and some that each of our families might know better, plus "extra credit" where you could draw a picture or write a poem that expressed your feelings about our marriage. It was pretty cute, and people seemed into it.
I like the quizzes. It's a good ice breaker, because you always have the competitive friend that wanders over to the family to get ALL the answers. Plus, people that work with you might know more about the planning process, but not know as much about what song you danced to in the 8th grade talent show.
One that was silly fun was identifying celebrity brides. Basically, you get a copy of People and a bridal mag, then cut out the heads of famous women and past them onto the wedding gowns, each one on a numbered sheet of paper. Pass the pictures around and have everybody write down their answers.
We also did a game where you try to make as many words as possible by scrambling the letters in the names of the bride and groom.
at one shower that i went to we played a "what's in your purse?" game. the host has a list and calls out the things on the list and the girls have to dig through their purses to see if they have them. you get points for various items: the less common the item, the more points you get. i thought that it was fun.
also, my MOH had all of the guests write their addresses on envelopes for me so that when i wrote my thank-you cards i didn't have to look up addresses. it was super convenient. i ended up sending my cards out the day after the shower!
oh, and another game that we played at my shower was the "cooperative poem" game where each person writes a sentence then folds the paper so that you can only see the sentence above and not the whole poem. the result was very sweet.
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They both went over well because the older people were familiar with a lot of the songs so they weren't alienated, and the younger people are really trivia-savvy and loved trying to guess the spouses of some of the more obscure people.
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I'm not a fan of games at showers AT ALL, but we played the clothespin game at a shower I went to last weekend, and it was really cute.
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To begin, choose a "buzz word" such as bride, groom, wedding, etc. When each guests comes into the party, hand them a clothespin. Then, if someone hears another person saying the "buzz word," they get to take that person's clothespin. The person with the most clothespins at the end of the party wins. (Another variation is that a guest loses her clothespin when she crosses her legs, a hard task for a party full of women!)
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We also did a game where you try to make as many words as possible by scrambling the letters in the names of the bride and groom.
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also, my MOH had all of the guests write their addresses on envelopes for me so that when i wrote my thank-you cards i didn't have to look up addresses. it was super convenient. i ended up sending my cards out the day after the shower!
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