a bride and her bridesmaids in a floral-decorated shop. — A bride and her bridesmaids in a floral-decorated shop. Image by Love Shack Fancy.

Wedding or bridal showers are the perfect opportunity to honor the bride-to-be and shower her with gifts that will help her start her new life. They are a great way to mingle with friends and family while celebrating the guest of honor.

To keep the party lively, many organizers choose wedding shower games. Some even choose to offer fun prizes to the winners! Not only do these games engage the guests, but they create memorable moments your guests will talk about for years to come.

But not every game is created equal. To ensure the wedding shower is successful, you must choose the right games for your audience.

Here is a list of classic wedding shower games, how to play them, and which ones are best for your upcoming event.

Classic Wedding Shower Games

Bridal Jeopardy

Bridal jeopardy is a fun trivia game everyone knows. You can easily find free Jeopardy templates online, customize them yourself, and project the game for guests to play along.

Just like classic Jeopardy, you’ll come up with six categories. However, each category will be wedding themed or center around the happy couple.

Categories like “Who said it?” and “About the Bride” will allow you to customize the game to fit the bride and groom. This makes it a fresh take on an old classic!

Ring Collection

Looking for a memorable, unique game? Purchase a bulk pack of plastic rings and hand one to each guest. Then, choose a common wedding word like “love,” “bride,” or “ring.” These will become forbidden words!

If a guest overhears another saying one of these words, they can call them out and take their ring. The guest with the most rings at the end of the party wins!

Pass the Bouquet

For this game, you’ll need a bouquet of the bride’s favorite flowers, some music, and a bluetooth speaker. Ask guests to sit in a circle or stand around the room. Start the music and have each guest pass the bouquet to the person next to them.

When you stop the music, the person holding the bouquet is out until there’s only one standing. Think of it like a bridal themed game of hot potato!

Modern Twists on Traditional Shower Games

Digital Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger hunts are a great way to make memories and challenge your guests. For this unforgettable game, create a list of actions your guests will need to complete. You could have them take a series of pictures, locate a series of items, or a mixture of fun tasks.

Use an app like Goosechase or Actionbound to take these hunts to the next level and make them digital! You can view the feeds from your phone and share the best photos to social media or with the party guests as a fun favor!

Where in the World Is the Couple?

Keep your guests guessing by collecting photos of the soon-to-be married couple in a variety of places. You could ask them to pose in places like popular stores or landmarks, or swipe pictures they already have from their travels on Facebook or Instagram.

Display them at the shower using clothespins and string or ribbon. Have guests use sticky notes or an answer sheet to guess where the photo was taken. This is a great game that doubles as decor!

Make A Meme

If the happy couple has a great sense of humor, collect photos of the couple and challenge your guests to create captions that will turn the photos into funny memes!

You can premake the captions and have the guests match them to the photo or have them come up with their own caption.

Collect the entries, choose the funniest ones and then display them later in the party to get your guests and bride-to-be laughing. Bonus points if you share them on social media!

Games for Co-ed Showers

Who Said It?

If you are throwing a couples shower, Who Said It? Is a fun game that will have everyone playing along! Make a list of 10 quotes said by either the bride or the groom.

These could be things they say often, something that relates to their interests, or an answer they gave to a question about their spouse.

Read the quotes to the guests and have them guess whether it was said by the bride or groom. This is a great way to see who knows the happy couple guests and is sure to bring on the laughs!

Guess That Love Song

If your co-ed crowd is full of music lovers, cue up 5-10 second clips of famous love songs. Purchase buzzers or bells from Amazon and call up guests two at a time. Have them chime in when they know the title of the song.

You can make this a team game with guests in groups of 3-5 or have each guest take turns going head to head tournament style. Either way, this is an excellent way to engage all party guests while staying on theme!

Toilet Paper Wedding Dress

Give your guests a party they will never forget! In teams of two or three, have guests choose a model and craft a beautiful wedding dress out of toilet paper. Set a timer and watch the creativity flow!

You can also require guests to make a bouquet, veil, and other bridal accessories to complete the look. Then, host a runway show! Have each group pose with their creation and allow the party to vote on who wore it best.

Ice Breaker Shower Games

a blindfolded bride pinning a picture. — A blindfolded bride pinning a picture. Image by Minted.

Two Truths and a Lie

This classic icebreaker is a fun way to help the crowd get to know each other. Guests will introduce themselves by name and then offer three facts. Two should be true, but one must be made up. The other guests will try and guess what the lie is.

To get off to a good start, have the bride-to-be go first and then choose the next person. This will allow her to pick someone she knows is comfortable in the spotlight and help the other guests feel more at ease.

Heads Up!

This popular party game gets a new life at showers when you make the terms wedding themed! Guests will hold a card up to their forehead with a wedding word written on it. Their partner will give clues to help them guess the word.

You can customize a digital version on the Heads Up! App for $.99 or use paper index cards to create a physical version.

Five Things

All you’ll need for this game is a list of categories, preferably wedding themed ones. Have your guests make a circle. Guests must name five things that fit into their given category.

For example, if they get flowers, they must name five types of flowers. Other categories can be wedding cake flavors, honeymoon destinations, or wedding dress styles.

Once the guest names five items, they will choose who goes next. If a guest can’t name five things, have them sit down. Last player standing wins!

DIY Shower Game Ideas

Wedding Vow Mad Libs

Mad Libs is a classic game where players blindly offer words to fill the gaps in premade stories, creating a hilarious end product. This makes it the perfect inspiration for a wedding shower game!

Using two clipboards, create two pieces of paper with headers like “I vow to…” or “I will always…” Guests will finish the sentence and fold the paper so the next guest cannot see how they answered.

By the end, the guests will have helped the couple write their wedding vows! Once the paper is full, you can read the vows out to the rest of the guests.

Bride and Groom Unscramble

Create a list of words connected to the bride and groom. These could be qualities, locations that are important to them, or even their names. Scramble the letters and have the guests try and figure out each word. The fastest player wins!

Guess How Many

This simple game requires a large jar and lots of items to go inside! It could be your bride’s favorite candy, wedding-themed items, or things that reflect your unique shower theme.

Guests will use slips of paper to guess how many of the items are in the jar. Whoever comes closest without giving over wins the jar and everything in it!

Low-Effort, High-Fun Games

Drink If….

All you need for this game is a set of prompts and drinks for your guests! Let your guests know they will need to take a drink when something happens or is said during the party. This could be as simple as every time the bride says her partner’s name or whenever someone says a specific wedding themed word.

How Well Do You Know the Couple?

Since wedding showers are filled with the bride and grooms nearest and dearest, hosting a few rounds of trivia is the perfect solution.

Create a list of fun but challenging trivia questions. Alternate asking each table or team to answer. You could offer unique prizes to the winning team who knows the couple best, like an outing with the happy couple or even a makeshift trivia trophy.

What’s Up With Your Phone?

This game is loads of fun but super easy to prepare. All you need is game cards that have lists of specific phone features. Guests will use the list and see how many boxes they can check using their phone.

For example, you’ll include things like “Battery life at less than 30%” or “Candy Crush downloaded.” Guests will check off which of the list items they have on their phone and the winner gets a prize!

Interactive Games for Large Groups

Romcom Charades

This low prep game is super interstive, especially when you add a romantic twist! Create a list of classic rom-coms like “When Harry Met Sally,” “You Got Mail,” and other popular films.

Teams will have 60 seconds to act out each movie so their partners can guess. You can have everyone team up or have the whole squad try to guess, depending on the size of your guest list!

Bridal Grudgeball

Divide your group into at least five teams. Each team will get eight removable symbols on a whiteboard or poster board. As each team answers a trivia question correctly, they will remove a symbol from another team.

If a team runs out, they can answer bonus questions to earn symbols back. This simple game will have everyone playing and competing to be the team with the most symbols left at the end!

Impersonation Improv

A mixed group is sure to have a few bold guests! Create slips of paper with the name of either the bride or the groom, as well as popular wedding day events. You can even write scenarios down that guests will have to act out.

Guests will take turns choosing a paper and then acting out what is on their paper. This is a great way to get crowds excited and create memorable moments during your party.

Where to Buy Wedding Shower Game Supplies

If you are planning a wedding shower, gather game supplies well in advance to be properly prepared. Esty and Amazon are great resources for premade games and low-cost bulk materials like paper, scratch-off stickers, and writing utensils.

Craft stores like Michael’s offer high-value coupons often, so you can save big bucks preparing for your wedding shower games. Party planners on a time crunch can use customizable templates.

For these amazing bundles, you can make unique games using your bride’s name and other details to make it a one-of-a-kind game! Invest in a ream of cardstock, and you’ll instantly elevate your printable games for pennies on the dollar.

Innovative Game Ideas to Spice Up Any Wedding Shower

When a guest attends a wedding shower, they don’t want to be bored with the same old games. It’s easy to make a few small adjustments and create a cutting-edge game that will excite your guests.

Technology is a great way to spice things up. Websites like Blooket or Kahoot are normally for teachers but you can use it as your secret weapon.

They allow you to make free live trivia games about the couple. You can add pictures and choose from a variety of exciting game modes that will really engage your guests.

To play, all you need is a game code once the game is set up and guests can join on their phones to answer questions.

If you want to elevate your paper activities, invest in some scratch-off stickers. You can use them to make fun games like Who has the Groom or raffle off fun prizes to your guests. You can get a pack of 100 for less than $10 on Amazon and let your creativity run wild!

Wedding Shower Game Ideas For Every Bride