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Bridal shower games on screen: 7 games for a brunch-sized crowd
A rented back room at a golf club outside Minneapolis, eleven in the morning. Round tables with white cloths, a mimosa station with three kinds of juice, and a gift table so full that someone has started a second one on the piano. Forty women from four generations. The bride's future mother-in-law is at table two with the groom's aunts, the bride's college roommates are at table five, and between them sits an ocean of polite smiles.
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A bridal shower is the party where the two families meet in daylight, sober, with name tags. It's lovely and it can be stiff. The games do real work here: they give the groom's side and the bride's side something to laugh about together before anyone opens a single gift.
Put those games on a screen. PULTEVENT runs from a laptop hooked to the room's TV or a projector. Guests scan a QR code and play from their phones in the browser, with no app. Their phones need internet, so ask the venue for the guest Wi-Fi or check that mobile signal reaches the back room. The host clicks through, the scores add up by themselves.
7 bridal shower games for a TV or projector
1 Who gave this gift
The most useful game at any shower. The bride holds up the gift, the host puts the guesses on screen, and guests vote from their phones on who brought it. Then the card is read out.
How to run it. Prepare the voting list in advance with a short name for each guest. Add a few joke options, like the groom.
Gift opening can eat an hour. With a vote on every gift, the room stays involved instead of reaching for the mimosas.
2 Weddings through the decades
Wedding photos from both families, oldest first: great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles. Each one goes up full screen and guests guess the couple and the year before you reveal them.
How to run it. Get photos from the groom's side as well. That's the whole point: his family's history on the screen, too.
It's the round that makes the families feel like one. People stand up to look closer and start telling stories.
3 The bride quiz
Questions about the bride that only some tables will know: her first car, the name of her childhood best friend, the city she wanted to live in at sixteen. Answers from phones, four options each.
How to run it. Balance the questions so the groom's side can get some right. Include a few about the couple, not just the bride.
Her college friends learn about her childhood, her aunts learn about college. Everyone meets a new version of her.
4 The toilet paper dress
A shower tradition: each table gets a few rolls of toilet paper and ten minutes to dress one of its members as a bride. Then the models walk, and guests vote for the winner from their phones.
How to run it. Show a countdown on screen for the build time and play music from the console while they work.
It's the loudest the room will get all morning, and it breaks the ice between the two families faster than anything.
5 How they met, in order
Key moments of the couple's story, scrambled: first date, first trip, the dog adoption, the proposal. Guests drag them into the right order on their phones.
How to run it. Get the dates from the couple directly. Their friends' versions will be creative.
The families who only know the proposal story get the full romance, and the friends get to be right.
6 Groom on video
If the groom isn't at the shower, he can still be. Film him answering a few questions about the bride; she guesses his answer first, then his clip plays on screen.
How to run it. Have him film landscape, in a quiet room, saying the question before the answer.
The bride gets a surprise, the groom's family gets to see him, and the mothers get their tissues out.
7 Table champions
The team scoreboard has been counting all morning: quiz points, photo guesses, the dress vote. It ends with an on-screen awards ceremony, third place up to the winners with confetti.
How to run it. Let the winning table take the centerpieces home. It's the prize everyone actually wants.
A clear finish means the shower ends on applause, not on the last guest gathering her coat.
Guess who gave the gift
Before each gift card is read, the room votes on who brought it. Gift opening stops being the slow part.
Four generations of wedding photos
Grandma's 1958 portrait, Mom's puffed sleeves, the bride in her prom dress. The room guesses who and when.
Tables play as teams
Mix the families at each table and let the scoreboard do the introductions.
Built for a venue screen
Any TV or projector with HDMI. Your laptop is the whole control room.
Two families, one room
The seating plan matters more than the games. If you seat the groom's aunts at their own table, they'll play as a bloc and stay a bloc. Mix each table: a bridesmaid, an aunt from each side, a cousin, a friend from work. The team scoreboard then gives every table a shared goal, and forty strangers become eight teams.
You'll see it by the second round. The groom's grandmother explaining the photos to the bride's roommate. That's why you run games at a shower at all.
Venue screens and the back room
Club rooms, restaurants and church halls often have a TV or a projector for presentations. Call ahead and ask two things: is there an HDMI input you can reach, and is there a Wi-Fi network guests can use. Bring your own long HDMI cable and a power strip.
If the venue has nothing, a large TV on a rolling stand or a small projector will do. Test the sound too if you plan to play the groom's videos. A clip nobody can hear is worse than none.
Keeping it respectful
A shower is not a bachelorette. Grandmothers are present and the pastor's wife may be at table three. Keep the quiz questions sweet, save anything spicy for the bachelorette, and preview every photo and video before the day. One bad clip can undo a morning.
"Can we do the lingerie question?"
"Not with Grandma Ruth at table one."
A shower for guests who couldn't travel
Families are spread out, and plenty of relatives can't make the shower. Open a video call, share the stage window, and they see what the room sees. They join the games by scanning the same QR code from their own phones, and their points land on the same scoreboard.
Timing a shower brunch
A typical shower runs two to three hours. Play the ice-breaker rounds in the first hour, while the food is out: photos, the bride quiz, the timeline. Open gifts with the gift vote running. Finish with the dress contest, the groom's video and the awards.
Try the full running order in the free 3-day demo without giving a card. After that you buy a one-time license, no subscription; the current price is on pultevent.ru/en.
About the author
PULTEVENT was built by Ruslan Barashkin, who has hosted weddings, birthdays and office parties since 2014: over 500 events, best host of Moscow 2024 and of Saint Petersburg 2023 at the TOP 100 Awards. He made it for his own nights first. The rest is at pultevent.ru/en.
How to run bridal shower games on screen
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Three weeks out, collect wedding photos from both families and film the groom's answers.
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Write the bride quiz and the couple timeline, and prepare the gift voting list from the guest list.
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Check the venue for an HDMI input, Wi-Fi and speakers, and bring a long cable.
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Seat guests at mixed tables and set them up as teams on the scoreboard.
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Play photos and quizzes during brunch, run the gift vote during opening, then the dress contest.
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End with the groom's video and the awards ceremony for the winning table.
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