How to Play Bridal Bingo

Bridal Bingo is a classic bridal shower game. You can be confident that the majority of your guests will know how to play bingo, so explaining the rules of Bridal Bingo should not be too difficult. Bridal Bingo is just a little silly and keeps the guests occupied while the bride is opening her gifts--a major portion of any bridal shower, as any woman knows.

Things You'll Need

• Small prizes
• Wedding or bridal clip art
• Bridal Bingo cards or layout for cards
• Cardstock
• Tiny pencils or pens

Instructions

1. Order or create your own Bridal Bingo cards for the bridal shower.

2. Create several fun prizes for the women who win at Bridal Bingo. These can be small prizes such as a scented candle or a manicure.

3. Obtain tiny pencils for people to cross items off on their Bridal Bingo cards. Golf pencils are a great size to use for Bridal Bingo.

4. Give each bridal shower guest a Bridal Bingo card. The easiest way is to put a Bridal Bingo card at her place setting at the table or in her chair. Announce that Bridal Bingo will be played when the bride opens her gifts.

5. Explain the simple rules. As the bride opens a gift, the guests cross off the gifts on their Bridal Bingo cards. The guest to cross off five gifts in a complete row wins and needs to yell "Bingo."

6. Play Bridal Bingo until all of the gifts are opened. You may need to go through several winners of Bridal Bingo, but this is all part of the fun.

Tips & Warnings

• If you are creating your own cards, you should come up with categories to focus on gifts that the bride will receive. A copy of her bridal registry would be helpful. Put pictures of various gifts on the bingo cards. Cards should not look the same, or have all the same gifts.

• There are various Web sites that offer Bridal Bingo cards for sale.

• Announce the prizes in the beginning of the shower. Many people get excited about the idea of winning a prize even if it is small.

• Have humorous categories on the Bridal Bingo card to make people laugh. It is all part of the fun.

• Decorate the Bridal Bingo cards with clip art. You can find lots of free wedding and bridal clip art on the internet.

• Another variation on Bridal Bingo is to have guests fill the cards out themselves with presents they think the bride is likely to receive, putting the gift they brought in the free square in the middle. You will simply need to provide a blank template for the guest to fill in with gift ideas. They can draw pictures, or simply write the name of the gift.