No Awkward Moments: 26 Bridal Shower Games That Bring People Together

When planning your bridal shower, it is essential to know how to create a fun and memorable event for both the bride and her guests. Games, snacks, decorations, and gifts are only some of the things you need to pay attention to in order to ensure everything runs smoothly. Games, in particular, play a key role in breaking the ice and setting the tone for the day. This intimate gathering has every chance to get awkward, but with the right selection of bridal shower games, you can ensure everyone feels comfortable and engaged.

1. Wedding Movie Charades

This classic charades game is perfect for a bridal shower with a fun, wedding twist. It gets everyone laughing as they try to mime out their favourite movie scenes. Divide the attendees into two groups; have them pick up cards with some memorable scenes from wedding movies. Each person acts out a scene without saying a word, and their teammates have to guess the film.

2. Pass the Bouquet

This game works like the classic Hot Potato, but with a wedding theme. It’s also easy to organise, so everyone can participate without needing to learn complex rules.

Have the guests sit in a circle and start the music. As the music starts, the guests will have to pass the bouquet to the person sitting next to them. When the music stops, the person holding the bouquet is eliminated. The last person standing wins.

3. Date-Night Ideas

This is a collaborative and creative activity where each guest contributes their favourite date-night idea for the couple.

Give a card, a pen or pencil, and ask each one to write a good suggestion for the couple’s date. Each person reads their favourite date idea and puts them in a box. The couple will then take the box home to use in the future.

4. Wedding Trivia

This trivia game tests the guests' knowledge about the bride and groom, wedding traditions, or even famous celebrity weddings. Have a list of interesting wedding facts and write them in the form of questions.

Divide the guests into two groups. Each group will be asked a question, and if they give an answer, they get a point. The group with the most correct answers is the winner.

5. Uniquely Me

Uniquely Me is a great icebreaker, helping guests learn fun and surprising facts about each other. In this game, each person is to come up with something unique about themselves in relation to the bride. They could say stuff such as “I've known her since kindergarten” or “I used to compete with her in high school.” This game gives the guests the chance to know each other better. 

6. Hot Gossip

This game involves spilling some (light-hearted) "tea" about the couple. Each guest writes down a fun or interesting fact or story they know about the bride or groom on a piece of paper. It should involve a story of how they know the bride and groom and when and where they met.

As the guests enter, they should be given a card with a question. After answering questions and mixing together, everyone gets to know each other’s relations to the newlywed.

7. Bridal Shower Pictionary

For this game, you’ll need a whiteboard or large pad of paper, markers, and a list of wedding-related words or phrases. After dividing into groups, each group sends a nominee to draw something on the board. The host sets a timer, and the group should try to guess the right answer.

Watching guests struggle to draw complicated wedding terms often leads to hilarious moments. In the end, the winning team is the one with the most correct answers.

8. Wedding Shoe Game

The wedding shoe game is a popular reception game, but you could also play it in the wedding shower. In this game, the bride and groom sit back-to-back, each holding one of their own shoes and one of their partner’s shoes. The host asks a series of questions. The couple raises the shoe of the person they think fits the answer.

The host should prepare around 10 or 15 questions that start with "who." Some examples may include “who is the better cook?” or “who said “I love you” first?” Instead of shoes, the couple could hold up two paddles with their faces on.

9. Who Am I?

In this classic game, guests will write the name of a celebrity or someone famous on a note and then put the note on their forehead. They circle the room, asking yes or no questions, and try to guess what name is on the sticky note. 

Who Am I encourages mingling and conversation among guests. It’s light-hearted, easy to play, and adds a fun twist to the introductions, especially if not all guests know each other.

10. The Newlywed Game

Similar to the famous TV game show, this game quizzes the couple on how well they know each other. Put one of the couple on the hot seat, asking them questions about themselves and their partner. The first interview should happen before the bridal shower party.

At the party, now it is the other couple’s turn to answer the same question. Finally, it is time to compare the answers. 

11. Wedding Jeopardy

This is a bridal shower version of the popular quiz show Jeopardy. It's highly customisable, so you can include trivia about the bride and groom or keep it focused on general wedding-related questions.

Have some wedding-related categories ready and write some questions for them. Write the categories in columns on the board. Each person will select a category and then have to answer a question in that column. In the end, the person or group with the most points wins.

12. Pass the Love Story

In this game, the guests help create a collaborative love story for the bride and groom. Here, the guests will write a sentence on a piece of paper and pass it to the next guest. Each person is allowed one sentence about how the bride and groom met.

As they pass the paper, they fold the previous answers so they remain hidden. In the end, the host reads the final piece. The final story is usually full of unexpected twists and turns.

13. Pen a Poem

In this creative writing game, guests take turns contributing lines to a group poem about the bride and groom. The game is pretty similar to “Pass the Love Story. The result is a collaborative attempt at romantic poetry that the couple will love and cherish. Have someone with the best voice read the poem in the end.

14. Celebrity Name Game

In a celebrity name game, guests take turns guessing the names of famous people or celebrities, particularly those who have been involved in high-profile weddings.

To play the game, give a piece of paper to each guest and ask them to write down a celebrity’s name. Then, they will put the slips of paper in a bowl or a hat. The guests will be divided into teams, and a member of the team will pull a name out of the hat. They have to give clues for others to guess the name of the celebrity.

15. Bridal Shower Bingo

Bingo is the perfect game for bridal shower gift opening. It turns the often lengthy gift-opening portion of the bridal shower into a fun, interactive experience for guests.

Create bingo cards filled with wedding-related words or common gift items like "toaster," "china," or "photo frame." As the bride opens her gifts, guests mark off the corresponding items on their bingo cards. The first guest to get five in a row wins a prize. 

16. Would She Rather

This is a fun "getting to know the bride" game where guests must guess the bride’s preferences in a series of "Would She Rather?" questions. Here, everyone gets the chance to find out who knows the bride best.

Give a card to the guests as well as the bride. Ask them to tick off the bride’s preferences. In the end, compare the answers. Whoever has the most correct answers is the winner.

17. Scavenger Hunt

A scavenger hunt adds an element of adventure and competition to the bridal shower. To play the game, you have to plan the scavenger hunt game in advance. 

Add a sticky note with a number to all your pieces of decorations before the party. Give a list of items to the guests when they attend the party. Now, each guest is supposed to find as many items as possible and write the numbers on the list. The person with the most collected items wins.

18. What’s in Your Purse

What’s in Your Purse is a light-hearted scavenger hunt-style game where guests earn points based on what they have in their purses. It is very easy to organise and play. In this game, the host reads a list of items, and everyone will have to look at their purse to see if they have that item. The person with the most items in the purse is the winner.

19. How Old Were They?

In this game, the host gathers photos of the bride and groom at different ages, ranging from baby pictures to their teenage years. This game often leads to shared stories and laughter, especially if the photos reveal awkward or adorable moments from the couple’s past.

The photos are displayed in random order, and guests have to guess how old the couple was in each photo. Guests write down their answers, and later the bride will reveal the correct age. The guests are then rewarded based on their accuracy.

20. Impersonation Improv

Impersonation improv is a light-hearted game that encourages creativity and silliness, making it a great way to end the bridal shower on a fun note.

To play the game, divide the guests into two groups and ask them to perform a number of scenarios. The scenarios will be wedding-related, and the performances should be certain impersonations of the bride and groom. In the end, the couple will decide who is the best.

21. Where Were We?

This game tests the guests' knowledge of the couple’s travels. It is similar to “How Old Were They?"  in that the host presents some old photos to the guests. In this game, however, the travels and trips are the focus. Guests will have to guess where the bride or the groom was in the photos. The most correct guesses determine the winner.

22. Find the Guest

Find the Guest is a perfect way to get everyone interacting and comfortable, especially if they don’t all know each other. In this game, the guests receive a checklist of some human characteristics. Each characteristic matches one guest, and they have to go around and look at everyone and take a guess on who that person is.

23. Musical Matching

This game revolves around music that is meaningful to the couple. The host creates a playlist of songs, each tied to a moment or memory in the couple’s relationship. The guests then have to find out which music is a match for which occasion.

An alternative is the wedding photos of people close to the bride. It could be her aunts, parents, grandparents, and so on. The host plays a list of songs and asks everyone to guess whose first-dance song is playing.

24. He Said She Said

This fun game tests the guests’ knowledge of the bride and groom’s personalities and relationship. Here, the host gives out a checklist of statements made by the bride and the groom. The guests have to guess who said those statements.

Swap the cards after the quiz is done. Play the couple’s recorded answers and let the guests mark each other’s performance.

25. Love Songs

In this musical game, guests test their knowledge of famous love songs. Create a playlist of well-known romantic songs, and play short clips from each song during the shower. The songs should be a mix of new and old songs so that nobody has an extra advantage.

Each guest will be given a piece of paper and a pen. They have to find out what song is playing or who the singer is. To avoid 

26. Why Do We Do That?

This trivia game explores the traditions behind common wedding rituals. The host prepares a list of wedding traditions, and guests must guess the origins or reasons behind each one.

There are lots of traditions with unique origins. The host gathers up these traditions, such as the white dress, dance songs, and many others. They then go around the room to see if anyone knows the origins of that particular custom.

Planning a bridal shower involves much more than just choosing the right decorations and snacks. It’s about creating a warm and fun atmosphere. With the right games, you can turn an intimate gathering into a memorable celebration filled with laughter and joy, leaving everyone with lasting memories of this special day.