Sunday, January 17, 2010

I'm having a couples bridal shower & cant think of any couples games?

The only game i can come up with is the Newlywed Game..have any more ideas. I've looked online and found cheazy ones..the couples will be older couples and maybe a few in their 20's..IdeasI'm having a couples bridal shower %26amp; cant think of any couples games?
teams but the women can only give directions and be the model they can not touch the dress, the men must make the dress.... lots of toilet paper and paper clips....then teams are to design a wedding dress and the bride gets to pick the one she likes best or the one that is the cloest to the designer of her gown.I'm having a couples bridal shower %26amp; cant think of any couples games?
I made up a quiz that I've used at rehearsal dinners, but you could easily use it at a shower. I gave a prize to the couple with the highest score. The quiz is based on the people getting married, let's call them ';Jack'; and ';Jill';. People would earn, or loose, points based on how like Jack, Jill, and Jack and Jill together they are like.





Example:


1. 2 points if you got married in May (use the month of Jack and Jill's wedding here).


2. 5 points if you went to Paris (use their honeymoon destination here) for your honeymoon.


3. 3 points if you met your spouse/partner by being set-up by friends (use the way they met here)


4. 2 points if you are the youngest child in your family (Maybe Jill is the baby of her family - you don't have to use only wedding facts about Jack and Jill - you can use basic facts about either Jack or Jill. This lets people who are not married get some points.)


5. 3 points if you were in a sorority in college (or some other thing that Jill, or Jack, did).


6. Minus 2 points if you had more than 5 bridesmaids in your wedding (or how ever many Jack and Jill are having).





This quiz would be appropriate for older and younger couples.
I don't know about games so much, but my sister did a neat idea for my husband and I for our bridal shower. She did a ';Tool Shower';. Basically it was left up to the party goers to interpret their idea of a tool that would be most useful to my husband and I. Of course all the men loved it, their inner-Tim the Tool Man Taylor came out and my husband received a ton of ';manly'; tools. I on the other hand, received a lot of kitchen tools or garden tools. It was a really neat party and everyone participated.
First, I would check with the bride and groom to see if they want games. If so, then I would just stick with cocktail party mixer games. I would try to avoid doing anything too wedding-ish because guys tend to get annoyed with bridal shower games.





Best wishes!!!!!!!





Edited to add to the ';thumbs downers';: Most of the guys that I know in their 30s feel that a couples shower is just wrong. They don't like them and hate attending. The only reason they go is because their wives and girlfriends make them go. One buddy of mine actually fakes illness to avoid attending these things and told me not to even consider that type of event for our wedding. Younger guys may not have a problem with this kind of thing, but the men in my life hate couples showers.
A fun game for couples showers is to have guests bring an inexpensive gag gift for the groom to the shower along with their regular gift. When it's time to open the present the groom and bride take turns opening packages ... she opens the real gifts and he opens the gag gifts.





It keeps the party light and lets everyone have fun.





There are more couple shower games here at http://www.bridalshowergamesplus.com
create a little game to see how well they know each other. Have a paper where they need to fill out info about their partner. Like their favorite restaurant, movie, color, etc. Also include funny things like pet peeves or most emberassing moment.

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