We did your basic shower games: toilet paper wedding dresses, you can't say "wedding," "bride," or "groom;" but we also added in a few new games. We played one game where we had the bride leave the room for a few minutes and the guests quickly wrote down all of the details they could remember about what she was wearing and what her hair looked like; the results were fun to read considering how wrong some people were! Another game we played was trying to have the guests guess various quotes from romantic movies. I made the mistake of choosing movies that everyone isn't too familiar with and not everyone could answer more than two or three of them! We opted for a handicap and allowed people to look on their phones for a minute. The other game we played was a "guess the corks" game where the guests just had to guess how many corks were in a jar and the person who was closest won a prize.
There were a few things we did that didn't involve any prizes but were still fun and enjoyable. We had a few different kinds of Mad Libs around on the tables for the guests to fill out, the bride and groom read them together and had a few laughs over some of the creations. We also played a Newlywed Game with the bride and groom. It was fun to see how much they actually know about each other! I think out of fifteen or so questions they only missed one or two (some of our questions were hard too!) The final game we played was the shoe game. We sat the bride and groom back to back and asked them various opinion based questions. They each had one of their shoes in one hand as well as the other's shoe in the other hand. Whenever we asked them a question (i.e. "who is the better driver?") they raised the shoe of whoever they thought was the answer. This game was funny because they don't know what the other is saying and they reveal their true opinions on things like who cooks better or does more chores around the house. There was also a jar and pop-sickle sticks for guests to write down their favorite date night idea for the couple to do.
All of the food at the shower was made from scratch. We had your usual veggie tray with ranch dip and fruit tray with fluff dip (equal parts cream cheese and fluff mixed together). We also had queso made with Velveeta and Rotel tomatoes and spinach dip, both kept warm in crockpots. We made meatballs in the crockpot as well using a recipe that called for grape jelly and chili sauce! The main part of our food table was our assortment of pinwheels: turkey & cheese, ham & cheese, and buffalo chicken. The wraps were simple and easy to make and such a great hit! For drinks we had soda, water, lemonade, beer and sangria. We made two different kinds of sangria: a basic red and my favorite, Strawberry Peach.
For decorations we used the basic paper streamers, balloons, and homemade pom-poms. The pom-poms were really simple to make and didn't take long when we had four people working on them. I also found a free downloadable banner template using Chicfetti; it was absolutely perfect and matched the decor wonderfully! We made the cupcake dress almost from our imaginations. We had seen a picture of one on Pinterest but that's all, there wasn't a link that followed it and by the time we realized this we were elbows deep in icing and there was no turning back; needless to say we did a pretty damn good job on that one. For the centerpieces on the tables we glittered wine bottles to arrange on the tables and give the room a girlier touch.
All in all I think this bridal shower was a wonderful success and relatively reasonable in price. If you have any tips or tricks you know of feel free to comment below! I would also love to hear how you would change anything we did!
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Bridal shower in a budget can surely reduce burden of wedding expenses. I attended a wedding function of my known at one of best located Los Angeles wedding venues last week. Function was quite good and catering services were too amazing.
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