Over 50 Bridal Shower Gift Ideas for Games that your guests will actually want!
My bridal shower is in a couple months, so my mom and I have been brainstorming creative games to play and unique prize ideas for the guests. We’ve been having so much fun talking through all our ideas and we have a lot of REALLY good ones. I thought I’d put together a post sharing a few of our favorites!
Instead of having a bunch of small gifts, we’re planning to put together a few larger themed gift baskets that the bridal shower guests can win. We figured this would make it more fun and give everyone more incentive to be the first guest to win!
Our goal is to keep all of the prizes relatively budget-friendly, but there are some that we definitely splurged on a bit! This post will share a variety of gift options at all different price points, so you can pick and choose what you want to include for your shower!
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Bridal Shower Game Prize Ideas
Our main goal with these baskets was to make them fun, but also useful! We really wanted to find practical bridal shower game prizes that our guests would actually use. I totally think we succeeded! Keep reading for all of our insanely awesome gift ideas that your guests are going to LOVE.
Romantic Date Night Basket
The first basket we came up with for the bridal shower gift ideas for games was a romantic date night basket. Fill it with all the date night essentials you can think of!
A movie theater gift card, maybe some gourmet popcorn and seasonings, date night scratch off cards, a gift card to a local restaurant, etc. You could also use any of these ideas as individual gifts too. I know I personally would love a restaurant gift card!
Items to include:
- Gourmet popcorn & seasoning set
- Movie Theater gift card
- Scratch off date night ideas
- Gift card to a local restaurant
- Portable mini projector
- Card games – here’s a fun couples game that’s inexpensive!
- Empty photo album or scrapbook!
- Silicone popcorn maker
Chef’s Kiss Basket
This prize winner will receive a basket filled with an assortment of premium kitchen essentials and speciality sauces & pasta! Start with a cute basket that can be used in their pantry. Then, fill it with a recipe or appetizer book, a cooking apron, some speciality sauces and other small items they’ll use while cooking.
Items to include:
- Recipe or appetizer cookbook
- Speciality sauces – truffle oil, pesto, hot sauces, etc.
- Wooden spoons
- Kitchen towels or wash cloths
- Silicone pot holders or oven mitts
- Gift card for a local cooking class
- Cheese board
- Gourmet salt set
- Cooking apron
Comfy Cozy Gift Basket
This basket is the perfect game prize for all the homebodies who love a cozy night in! We’ve got you covered with this ultra-soft throw blanket that we picked up from Target, these plush slippers and tea sampler set. Now you’re all set for a quiet evening at home!
Items to include:
- Cozy throw blanket
- Neutral fuzzy socks
- Pair of White Slippers
- Tea Sampler Set
- Sleep mask
- Velvet scrunchies
- Essential oil diffuser
- Hand lotion
- Calming room spray
- Comfort snacks – popcorn, chocolates, nuts, etc.
The Bride’s Choice Basket
This is my favorite prize idea! You can put together a basket of all of the bride’s favorite things for one of her guests to try out. You can include her favorite book, her favorite scented candle, her everyday lip balm, a sample of her favorite perfume, her go-to nail polish color, etc.
This is such a fun way for the guests to get to know the bride a little more and to try out some new products! I’ll link a few of my favorites below!
Here are some ideas:
- Necklace or earrings
- Favorite book
- Scented Candle
- Everyday lip balm
- Sample of perfume – this smells SO good!
- Nail polish in her favorite color
- Favorite candy or chocolate
- Beauty essentials (mascara, moisturizer, eyelash serum)
- Hair Clips – I get all of mine from Kitsch!
Cheers to You Wine Basket
A basket for all the wine enthusiasts who love to romanticize their every day. Fill it with your favorite bottle of wine (you can even tie a ribbon around it to dress it up), a set of elegant wine glasses, an electric wine bottle opener, and a wine pairing cookbook (I’m adding this one to our wedding registry)!
I’ll include some more gift ideas below!
Items to include:
- Bottle of Wine (your choice!)
- Two stemless wine glasses
- PureWine Wine wands (to prevent wine headaches)
- Wine and Cheese Board Deck
- Wine Wash clips (secure your wine glasses in the dishwasher)
- Wine Food Recipe Book
- Box of chocolate truffles (you could also use these as bridal shower favors – who doesn’t love chocolate!?)
Fresh Linen Laundry Basket
As I mentioned previously, we wanted to put together gift baskets that were both fun and practical. I love this Fresh Linen Laundry Basket! It’s filled with all our favorite everyday laundry essentials. The Beyond laundry detergent sheets that we both absolutely LOVE, a set of wool dryer balls, some new white towels, Beyond natural dryer sheets, and mesh bags for delicates.
I’ve been using these laundy detergent sheets for over two years now and they’re incredible. Super easy to use, lightweight, mess-free, eco-friendly, safe for sensitive skin, and WI based (for all of my local readers)! Plus, they’re great for apartment living, small laundry rooms, traveling and hand washing clothes.
We thought this would be the perfect way to introduce one of the bridal shower guests to our favorite laundry brand. Once you make the switch to detergent sheets, you will never go back to your old detergent!
Items to include:
- Beyond laundry detergent sheets
- Wool dryer balls
- Beyond natural dryer sheets
- White bath towels
- Mesh laundry bags for delicates
- Cleaning spray bottle
Fun in the Sun Beach Basket
I have to give all the credit to my fiance for this great prize basket idea. It’s such a neat gift that everyone on your guest list is going to want! Especially if your bridal shower is in spring or if you’re doing a tropical destination wedding, this basket will get them excited for warm weather!
You can use a large beach bag like this one as the basket and pack it with tons of beach day essentials. A quick-drying beach towel, a light-hearted beach read, some cute sunnies and hydrating face sunscreen.
Items to include:
- Large waterproof beach bag – so many color options!
- Oversized beach towel
- Reef-safe mineral SPF – this one is super blendable & great for everyday too!
- Wet swimsuit bag
- Towel Clips – these are so cute!
- Waterproof portable speaker
- Handheld portable fan
- Sandscreen sand removal bag
- Summer beach read (our favorite is The Summer of Broken Rules)
- Sun hat
Sweet Treats Dessert Basket
For anyone with a sweet tooth, this is the perfect gift basket! You can include a cookie mix, baking essentials like these adorable heart shaped measuring spoons, cake decorating tools (this 74 piece piping set is less than $15), and some other goodies like custom frosted cookies from a local bakery!
Start with a larger baking dish like this one and organize your assortment of baking gifts inside of it!
Items to include:
- Dessert mix
- Custom frosted cookies
- Piping bags and decorating kit
- Assortment of cookie cutters
- Baking pans (cake, muffins, cupcakes, cookies, etc.)
- Heart shaped measuring spoons
- Silicone Spatula
- Bag of m&m’s or other candy
Relaxing Spa Basket
If you want a really simple gift basket idea, the Relaxing Spa basket is a great option because all of the items are very affordable. Everything can be found at Walmart, Target or even the Dollar Store! This is a really good bridal shower game prize because everyone could use new spa items!
Items to include:
- Nail polish set – I also really love these press-ons!
- Face Masks
- Hand peel – amazing for dry skin
- Body Exfoliator – this one is my favorite
- Eye Gels – Patchology has the BEST eye gels
- Ice roller – I use mine every morning!
- Handmade soaps
- Bath Bombs
For those of you who’d prefer to just purchase a pre-made gift basket, this 10 piece Lavender Spa Set is under $30 on Amazon.
Treat Yourself Self-Care Basket
Some of the items we included in this basket could also be used in the Spa basket, but we wanted to break them up into two! The Spa basket is more about pampering and relaxation, whereas our Self Care basket focuses more on overall wellness and self-love!
We love these mindfulness and postive affirmation cards, they were actually created by a female Psychologist, and this 5 minute gratitude journal is under $10 and helps you find joy and postivity in your every day. You can also include a calming candle like this one from Target or this Niacinimide infused body wash that is ultra hydrating!
Items to include:
- Necessaire body wash – smells so good!
- Ultra-luxe cloud socks
- Floral coloring book for relaxation
- 5 Minute Gratitude journal & pen
- Essential Oils
- Calm candle
- Relaxing body cream
- Mindfulness & postitive affirmation cards
- Satin pillowcase – so many skin and hair benefits
- Moisturizing Lip balm
Jetsetter Travel Essentials Basket
We definitely think this will be a popular basket choice among our guests! I mean who doesn’t love a little getaway!? We filled this basket with small gift items that they can use on their next road trip or plane ride.
These packing cubes make it really easy to stay organized while traveling and we love this lay-flat makeup bag!
Items to include:
- Packing cubes – this 6 piece set from Amazon is our fave
- Travel pillow and blanket set
- Passport holder
- Travel makeup bag – this one lays flat!
- Travel jewelry case
- Neck Pillow
- Luggage tag
- Electronics organizer
- Travel sized beauty & makeup products
For our Ultimate List of Travel Essentials, check out this post!
Rise and Shine Coffee Basket
This charming basket is for all the coffee connoisseurs! Elevate their morning or afternoon coffee routine with a new set of coffee mugs – these are only $3 each, some premium coffee beans, gold stirring spoons, and a gorgeous syrup dispenser set that’s under $20. I personally don’t even drink coffee, but I’d still love to win this basket LOL!
I also found a coffee mug warmer on Amazon that has incredible reviews and is extremely affordable. You can pick a few gifts from the list of things below to create your own Rise and Shine Coffee Gift basket that works within your budget.
Items to include:
- Cute coffee mugs
- Starbucks gift cards
- Coffee beans
- Coffee mug warmer
- Milk frother
- Coffee bean shaped ice mold
- Syrup Dispenser Set
Game Night Basket
We could’ve combined this with the date night basket, but we wanted to have a separate basket filled with all of our favorite games since we’re a huge board game family! I’ll list out a few of our go-to games below.
If there will be lots of families and kids at your bridal shower, you could also throw in a few games for the kiddos! All of the options below are family-friendly, but some might be harder for little ones.
Games to include:
- Deck of cards
- This That & Everything – my personal favorite (it’s a fast-paced fun group game)!
- Green Team Wins – this is a newer game that we just started playing!
- Scattegories – a classic!
- The Game of Things
- TableTopics Original: Questions to Start Great Conversations – great for dinner parties!
- Uno
Best Bridal Shower Games
If you need unique bridal shower games to play at your party, here are a few that we plan on playing during mine.
Guess the Age of the Bride
This is such a fun game to play at your bridal shower! We are 100% doing this at mine! Basically, you just display photos of the bride at different ages (you can choose how many photos you want to have), and then have the guests guess how old she is in each photo. The guest with the most correct answers wins the game!
This is one that you might have to exclude immediate family members from, just to make it fair for other guests!
Bridal Bingo (Get to Know the Guests version)
There’s two different ways you could play this. I’ve done both and you can’t go wrong either way! The first way is to have a Bingo card made up with all different characteristics of the guests (ie. “Is a bridesmaid”, “Knows three languages”, or “Has been married for over 20 years”).
Then, the guests will have to walk around the room and find people who match those characteristics. The first person to get a Bingo wins. It’s casual, fun, and a great way for your guests to get to know each other a little more!
We’re still brainstorming more bridal shower game ideas that we want to play at the shower, but once we finalize those I’ll put together a post full of all our ideas!
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I hope this post gave you tons of good prize ideas for your bridal shower! The great thing about any of these baskets, is that you can completely customize them to fit your shower and budget. They can be as expensive or inexpensive as you like, filled with gifts tailored to your guests.
You could even use any of these ideas as wedding gifts too! The Fun in the Sun basket could be turned into a Honeymoon basket filled with monogram beach towels, a custom beach bag, an Airbnb gift card, and other beach essentials for the happy couple.
Stay tuned for the next wedding-related post which will be all about my winter Snow in Love bachelorette party that my amazing maid of honor planned!
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