Bridal Shower Games That Are Actually Fun to Play

Photography: Johnny Miller

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Get everyone talking (and toasting and laughing) with our spin on the childhood favorite. To play, assign someone based on the top options (Bride, Your Choice, Everyone, or Bride’s Choice), and spell the name of the person chosen (or the word “everyone”) as you move flaps in and out and side to side in coordination with the letters. Then, ask the chosen person to pick a number and move the flaps as you count. Finally, have her pick a number and open the fortune-teller to reveal one of the following tasks:

Make a toast!

Give a relationship tip.

Also known as The Newlywed Game, The Shoe Game, Mr. and Mrs. or His and Hers, this activity allows you to test the bride and groom on just how well they know each other. Before the shower, send the groom a list of questions with two parts: His response and what he thinks his bride will say. At the party, give the bride the same questionnaire and have her, too, answer honestly and give her groom guesses. When she's finished filling it out, read both their responses out loud, checking for accuracy, or alternate playing a video of the groom’s replies between the bride’s answers. You could also use dry-erase boards (have a friend copy the groom’s responses), or give the bride a pink and a blue paddle or a male and female shoe to raise with her response. (Note: With this version, you must be able to answer simply, “him” or “me.”)