Gag Bridal Shower Games

Part of the fun at bridal showers lies in playing gags on each other. Of course all the gags are played in the spirit of the shower and in jest. These games generally work well for any age group and number of women.

Gag Bridal Shower Game #1: Memory Game With A Twist
Put 15-20 wedding related items in a tray and ask the bride to walk around the room with the tray for a couple of minutes. Most guests who are familiar with the game will get clued in and try really hard to memorize as many items in the tray as they can. Now the fun begins!

Ask the bride the leave the room and then tell the guests to jot down whatever they can remember about the bride?s attire! Most guests would be reviewing the contents of the tray in their mind. To be suddenly asked what the bride was wearing will throw them off completely. Great to see most of the women fail completely and some even come up with completely outrageous suggestions about what the bride is wearing.

It is best to play this game at the beginning of the shower rather than towards the end.

Gag Bridal Shower Game #2: Fish Out The Rice
Get a 5 pound bag of long grain rice and some safety pins to put in the bag. Now there are two ways to play this game.

In the first version, mix the safety pins well with the rice. Each guest needs to fish out as many safety pins as she can in a span of two minutes. It sounds easy but if you actually try it, digging through rice hunting for a safety pin is very difficult.

In the second version, tell the guests they need to find the safety pins BUT don?t put any pins in there at all! Just for demonstration sake, sneak a pin into the bag, act like you are fishing around and ?find? the pin. Then let the guests take a turn each. When the first few guests can?t find a single pin, their reactions will be worth watching. Of course, after 2-3 guests, the rest will catch on.

Gag Bridal Shower Game #3: The Worst Chore?
This one can get really funny. Ask each guest to give three reasons why they hate the household chore that they hate the most. So if you hate doing the dishes, give three reasons why. Ask all the guests to put the chore and the reasons on a piece of paper. Take back the paper and read aloud the reasons EXCEPT replace the hated household chore with the phrase ? ?I hate sex because??. Extremely hilarious.

Copyright Andrea R. Britt, 2005. All rights reserved.