Bridal Shower Centerpiece
By Bernard Cyrus

Bridal Shower Centerpiece Ideas

Making a game of who gets the bridal shower centerpiece can be an amusing diversion and many guests will enjoy participating in. Here are some ideas for giving away the reception table centerpiece.

If you love musical chairs, you can play a game of musical wedding or love song in order to give the bridal shower centerpiece away. Someone takes out a stem of rose and music begins playing. Everyone at the table passes the rose around the table and when the music stops, whoever is left holding the rose gets the centerpiece.

Or this game can be played a bit more traditionally with the person with the rose being eliminated, and the game continuing until only one person is holding the rose. That person can then be awarded with the bridal shower centerpiece. The rose can be passed around and when the music stops, the person holding the rose is told to return it to the person who first supplied it. That is the person who gets the bridal shower centerpiece.

One of the most popular ways brides give away the table centerpieces is to put a number on the bottom of the centerpiece and give each guest a number. At some point in the evening, a number is called, each guest checks his or her number and whoever has the called number gets the bridal shower centerpiece. There are many ways to put a twist on this traditional activity.

For example, you might provide each table with a number, but make it a lower number (ie. between 1 and 10) and the DJ or MC could move from table to table and have each guest do something a certain number of times. At the first table, for example, the guests might need to do "head, shoulders, knees and toes" six times and whoever does it first gets the bridal shower centerpiece. Or, at the second table, the guests might be required to sing the alphabet 3 times or sing "twinkle, twinkle, little star" three times and whoever does that first get the bridal shower  centerpiece.

Some fun, and fairly traditional, ideas include the birthday person getting the bridal shower centerpiece. At each table, the person who has a birthday closest to the bridal shower  gets the centerpiece. Perhaps the bridal shower centerpiece should go to the person with the longest hair, or the strangest shoes (again, this would be voted on by tablemates). Or if there are married couples at the table, the couple who have been together the longest can get the centerpiece, or the couple who were married most recently.

Another fun activity for divvying up the bridal shower centerpiece is to require guests to produce a certain item. The  MC or DJ moves from table to table, announcing what guests at that table will be required to produce in order to get the centerpiece. Maybe it's doctor's appointment card or a Georgia quarter or a mint. Whatever it is, the guest at each table who produces the requested item will get the bridal shower centerpiece.