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(CA.ARA) - Celebrating a friend's upcoming marriage with the time-honored tradition of a wedding shower is a custom that has taken on new wrinkles over the decades. Many wedding showers focus only on the bride, but if the groom and friends will be in attendance, games are a simple, fun way to involve everyone.
If you're throwing a co-ed wedding shower, a theme is a good idea. One of the most popular ones is a Stock the Bar shower. You can encourage guests to not only bring beverages like beer and wine, but also bar accessories such as wine racks, martini glasses and drink recipes.
"One of the most popular games played at showers these days is the Play Dough game," said Lisa Best, owner of Beautiful Weddings By Me in Windsor, Ontario. "Every table gets three packages of Play Dough and the guests have to make something with them. The bridesmaids decide which table's design is the best one, and everyone sitting there gets a prize."
Another creative co-ed shower game is played with toilet paper. "All the men in the wedding party are brought to the front of the room and the guests dress them up with toilet paper," said Best. "Some people use the paper to make matching tuxes; I've also seen ties and belts. It's a very cute game."
A bride can always use as much womanly wisdom as possible before the big day. To share some of the marriage wealth, try a game of "Words of Wisdom." On each shower invitation, request that each guest bring her own words of wisdom in the form of a song, poem or saying. The saying can be about marriage or life in general. For example, "Give a man a fish and he'll be fed for a day, but teach a man to fish and you can send him away for a whole weekend!"
Another fun game to play is a purse scavenger hunt. This one works best at women-only showers. Divide the guests up into teams and give them a list of items. Each item has a point value, and the more unlikely someone is to have the item in her purse, the higher the point value. Consider your guests when creating a list and be sure to have a gift for the team with the most points.
A more risqu?? game just for the girls, "Where's My Pajamas", is sure to add a personal element to your shower -- without offending moms or aunts who may be at the party. It's also the perfect game for guests to get to know each other. Ask each guest to bring a brown bag that contains her favorite sleepwear. The bride then proceeds to guess who it belongs to. Whether it's an old T-shirt or a fancy nightgown, the guests will get an idea of the other guest's personality ??? funny, sexy, wild.
Whatever game you choose to play, keep it upbeat and happy, and remember to try and involve all of the guests, even the ones who are reluctant to bring their PJs.
Courtesy of ARA Content
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