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Shower ideas; bridal showers, that is!
Topic Started: Nov 17 2005, 10:31 PM (824 Views)
FlowerGirl
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I am sure we all have tons of good ideas, so here are my favorites:

- ask everybody to write an easy recipie that helped you when you were newlywed

- ask everybody write a Shalom Bais advise
have the kallah read that out loud :)
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zuncompany
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closepin game- pick a word or action. everyone gets a close pin when they come in to wear somewhere. If someone hears them say the word or action they call them out and take their close pin. By mine it was the word wedding! lol also the action of crossing the legs. The person with the most at the end wins a prize.

How well does he know you- the people who threw the shower sent my chasson a survey all about me. How many kids do I want, whats my fav color/food/etc... things like that. Than at the shower I was put in a different room to answer the questions while everyone else was read the survey and they also answered it in what they thought. Than I came back and they read it off. First my chassen's answers, than mine and whoever got it correct got a point. I was cracking up at some of the things dh said!! OH MAN!!! lol

Dress the bride- take white toilet paper and everyone helps create her wedding dress in which she than opens presents wearing. Than take all the bows and ribbons and make a hat for the dress. At one of my showers dh was in town and it was from his family so he came with. We got a good laugh cause they made him wear the hat!!

I know i have more... got to think!
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the newlywed game is always fun. As the potential groom a bunch of questions. Get it on tape (or better on viedo). Make sure they are fun questions where the answer oes not really matter (ie "who is going to be the one who first decides to order out for dinner" rather than "what would you do if you came home and found mr x with another woman"). Compare answers.
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Adding to FlowerGirls list

A housekeeping tip that you like.

If you got these before the shower you could present it to her in a ring binder, (a CD she could add to would work as well. That way she can add ideas and suggestions she finds along the way.

A thought: Wehn people come in and sign in, use a computer database and have them indicate what their gift is. This way the Kallah will have an easier time writing the thank yous.
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OOh! If people who are coming like to scrapbook. My cousin for her shower they did something way cool. In the invite everyone was told to bring their fav recipe and a memory they have with the kallah or chasson. At the shower they had loads of scrapbooking supplies. Everyone made a page and at the end the kallah had a wonderful cookbook full of everyone's favorites and loads of memories!
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just made a shower for my friend.
we did that newlyweds game thing.
also, had everyone buy a gadget ($2 or less) and write up a short poem about it.
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- everyone brings something small with their own initials and the kallah has to guess who gave it
- everyone brings something to do with a specific time of day
i'll try to remember other things...
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we once played this game at a friends shower: the aim was to see how well the bride would do in a kitchen she was blindfolded and given different objects , some really strange ones..ones you hardly ever use plus every day things and she had to guess what it was. she only had three guesses and had penalties if guessed wrong..
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I was at a shower where the organizers had gone to a kitchenwares store like William-Sonoma or Bed bath & Beyond and bought some pretty obscure kitchen tools/gadgets - small ones. At the shower each gadget was passed around and the bride, then the guests took turns hypothesizing what the tool was actually used for. Then the organizers revealed what the tool actually is.
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i was at a shower where we played a game that could end up hurting s/o's feelings... they assigned the kallah and another guest a task (polish silver, sew button, stuff like that) and had a race to see who'd finish first and do a better job. they went thru a bunch of rounds with different people. but if you have a kallah (or guest) who isn't good at something and it gets judged, it may not end happily.
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Just put this togethr 4 a friend, & figured I might as well post it here: :)

RIGHT LEFT GAMES

Rules: Seat everyone in a circle. Provide one gift for every 3 or 4 people. Hand to gifts to people at different points in the circle (not right next to each other). Read the story below and have players hand the gifts right or left whenever the words "right" or "left" are spoken.

Story: Chanuka was almost here, and Mother RIGHT was finishing the Chanuka baking.

Father RIGHT, Sue RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT returned from their last-minute Chanuka errands.

"There's not much LEFT to be done," said Father RIGHT as he came into the kitchen.

"Did you leave the basket of food at church?" asked Mother RIGHT.

"I LEFT it RIGHT where you told me to," said Father RIGHT.

"I'm glad my shopping is done," said Billy RIGHT. "I don't have any money LEFT."

The hall telephone rang, and Susan RIGHT LEFT to answer it.

She rushed back and told the family "Aunt Tillie RIGHT LEFT a package for us RIGHT on Grandma RIGHT's porch.

I'll go over there RIGHT now and get it." she said as she LEFT in a rush.

Father RIGHT LEFT the kitchen and brought in the Chanuka menorahs.

By the time Susan RIGHT returned, Mother RIGHT, Father RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT had begun setting up the menorahs

The entire RIGHT family sang zemiros as they finished setting up the candles.

Then they LEFT all the presents arranged under the tree and went to bed, hoping they had selected the RIGHT gifts for their family.

Now I hope you have the RIGHT present for yourself, because that's all that's LEFT of our story.....

Except to with you the <..name of the honoree..> a hearty Mazal Tov & a happy Chanuka....Isn't that RIGHT?

PASS THE GIFT GAME


Hand the hostess a small wrapped gift. I usually pick a small inexpensive pillar candle or a packet of floating candles. Something attractive, but inexpensive. Address your first comment to her and then to the guest who the gift is passed to each time.


You thought all the gifts were meant for you. But I have other items too.

So hold up this gift and look around, and give it to the one with eyes of brown.

You think you are the lucky one, but let us all share in the fun!

Look around with eyes discreet, and give it to the one with the smallest feet.

Your feet are tiny and very small. Now hand it to someone very tall.

Please, take your time, don't be harried. Give it to the one who is longest married.

You must be proud of your married life, now pass this on to the newest wife.

Of this parcel you are bereft, give it to the one on your left.

The largest earring I'm looking for now, if you're wearing them, step up with a bow.

Now to those with buttons, any kind, the most you can find gets the gift at this time.

Now don't get cross and please don't fight, but pass it to the lady third on the right.


Girl Scout Right Left Game Story

THE RIGHT LEFT GAME

DIRECTIONS: Form a circle, each time you hear the word right, pass the candy, prize, grab to the person on your right. When you hear the word left, pass to the person on your left. When you finish this story the person holding the item is the winner of it.

THE RIGHT CHOICE IS GIRL SCOUTS-DON'T BE LEFT BEHIND

This is a story about Mrs. Wright's Shiur. She lived right at the end of Lefty Lane, the third house on the left.

Every other Wednesday, Mrs. Wright would hold a Shiur.
The girls would enter left, right through the front door and greet Mrs.
Wright, they would head right down the stairs, turning left then right into Mrs. Wright's family room.

Two of the girls were left-handed so they would sit at the left of the table. Mrs. Wright held up her right hand showing the quiet sign and all the girls quieted, except the left-handed girl on the right patting Mrs. Wright dog named Hefty Lefty.

Mrs. Wright asked Sarah Wright and Julie Wright to pass out the song music starting to the left. Sarah Wright and Julie Wright stared out left but turned back because they left the songbooks just to the right of the table. Mrs. Wright said, that's all right.

Mrs. Wright led the girls in song when Grandma Wright heard the beautiful voices and left the kitchen to join the Wright girl's. She went down the stairs and turned left than right, right into Mrs. Wright family room.

Grandma Wright knocked and entered left and sat in the rocking chair on the left. Sarah Wright and Julie Wright invited Grandma Wright to sing along.

Grandma Wright had attended shiurim for many years, and right before the girls realized it, Grandma Wright was teaching them a song she learned as a girl and had right at the tip of her tongue.

As the Shiur ended, they formed the friendship circle and started the squeeze left, it kept moving around left, left, and left until they completed the circle and the all turned right around.

As the girls left they all thanked Mrs. Wright and Grandma Wright for a down right wonderful Shiur.
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lilac7
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Why are so many about cooking and housekeeping? :huh
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lather rinse repeat
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happyduck1979
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lather rinse repeat

what do you mean?
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I'm bumping this up - need all ideas I can get, b/c I have a feeling I'll be the one arranging my sister's shower.
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