These days, couples have all they need for the household before the wedding day. Coming up with a wedding shower theme may be your best bet. When couples are first married, they seem to have more company than they know what to do with. With the “game night” wedding shower theme, the couple will have plenty to entertain those unexpected guests who tend to drop by.
Wedding Shower Theme
It’s your job to come up with a unique wedding shower idea, but what do you get the couple who has everything they need? Think game night! With a game night wedding shower theme, the guests will have fun shopping for the couple, and the couple will have fun playing with the gifts afterward. You can even open up a few games and play them at the wedding shower.
To set up the wedding shower room or area begin by ‘not’ thinking wedding. Forget the white flowers, white table cloths, and the glass votive candles, but keep the mints (these are good anytime). Bring out the more colorful arrangements. If you want flowers for decorations, pick arrangements that the couple can use in the house and give them as a gift. Decorate with large cardboard playing cards, pencils, dice, tickets or anything you can think of that reminds you of games.
For the couple who love football, add some cardboard football decorations to the walls. Use their favorite team’s colors to decorate the area. Use what you know of the couple and implement it into the wedding shower decorations.
Wedding Shower Gift Ideas
This is the fun part! When you are shopping for a couples wedding shower with a ‘game night’ wedding shower theme, the possibilities are endless. Below is a list of wedding shower gifts perfect for the occasion:
- sporting event tickets
- football/basketball
- basketball goal
- various decks of cards
- card table/folding chairs
- card shuffler
- dice
- poker chips/holder
- badminton set
- table tennis table/equipment (ping-pong)
- corn hole game set
- horseshoes game set
- Monopoly Game
- Life Game
- indoor/outdoor game storage bin
- grill
- Wii
Food Related ‘Game Night’ Wedding Shower Gift Ideas:
- salad bowls
- cheese board/cutter
- cocktail picks
- fondue pot
- serving trays
- chafing dish
- coffee/tea/other drinks
- mugs/cups/glasses
- popcorn popper
- popcorn
Wedding Shower Ideas
At a wedding shower like this, send out invitations that state to wear comfortable clothing and shoes as you may be outdoors trying out some of the new gifts. Set up a newly purchased, or old, badminton set in the back yard and choose teams. This is also a great time to purchase a volleyball and have a group volleyball game. Break-in the new corn hole or horse shoes games and serve up some food.
Serve food at this unique wedding shower that fits into the theme. Pick up several different bags of chips, dipping sauces, prepare some pigs-in-a-blanket, hot wings, sodas, ice, pizzas, or even fire up the grill for hamburgers and hot dogs. Use plastic and paper items so there will be little clean-up. Everyone can spend more time enjoying the wedding shower activities and less time in the kitchen.
Plan on having this wedding shower early in the day and be sure the couple is aware that this isn’t going to be the typical wedding shower that many other couples have. You may want to let them in on the theme before the big day arrives so they will know what to expect. If there will be a lot of close friends and family at the shower, ask them to each bring a dish or food item that will go along with the theme and enjoy the evening feeling like a kid again.
