Your bridal shower should be a day that you remember forever. There’s no better feeling than being surrounded by your friends, your family, and nothing but love all around you – except for if you have all of that AND are celebrating your upcoming wedding!
So you want to make your bridal shower special. There’s lots of ways that you can do that – but we are always highly encouraging of bridal shower games! And one of our favorites? The classic – a scavenger hunt!
What is a Wedding Shower Scavenger Hunt?
A scavenger hunt is a game in which a group of teams or individuals battle each other to find a list of items. These items are generally pre-planned and listed on a sheet.
As players find each item, they can cross them off the list. The first person or team to find all of the items is the winner!
Scavenger hunts are super fun and can be themed towards your event.
For example, if you’re having a bachelorette party scavenger hunt, you might send your girls on a search to collect a man’s boxers or a phone number.
For a bridal hunt, you might have your girls search for things like a credit card or a specific type of jewelry.
There’s also lots of different versions of a scavenger hunt that you can do, but we’ll talk more about that later!
How to Host a Bridal Shower Scavenger Hunt
Start by deciding whether you’d like people to play individually or on teams. If you choose teams, divide your ladies up into teams that you think are fair (or let them choose their own).
You can divide your players in half to make teams, have each person play for themselves, or play in pairs or triples – it’s completely up to you!
Be sure to specify the boundaries of your hunt.
Will you stay in the house, can they go outside?
Or maybe you’re having a town wide hunt!
Tell them where they can go, and then set a timer for them to be back.
Finally, hand your teams the pre-made list of items that you’d like them to find (we’ll provide you with a sample list below).
As they find the items, they check them off the list. On your mark, get set, go! When the alarm goes off, the team with the most items on the list wins!
Where Should I Do My Bridal Scavenger Hunt?
Most people choose to host their bridal scavenger hunt just around the house. It makes things super simple, and most things on the list can easily be found within most homes.
But if you want to go a little bigger, you could do your backyard, or even around your entire town. It’s really up to you! You can even use a scavenger hunt template if you’re making your own.
If you don’t want people going through your house, you could do a smaller scavenger hunt like a purse hunt!
This type of hunt can be super fun, because you get to see what kind of strange goodies all of your friends hide in their purses!
So, let’s give you some samples:
Items to find for a Bridal Scavenger Hunt (Around the House)
- Something Old
- Something New
- Something Borrowed
- Something Blue
- A photo of the couple kissing
- A black bra
- Lipstick
- Heart Shaped Jewelry
- A wedding ring
- A love letter
- A credit card
- Lipstick
- A pair of diamond earrings
- A hair band
- A housecoat
- A pair of designer shoes
- Hairbrush
- A bottle of alcohol
- Nail polish
- Makeup bag
- Deodorant
- Passport
- Travel photos of the couple
Items to find for a Bridal Purse Scavenger Hunt:
Women carry the craziest things in their purse! This is a super fun game that lets you find out who carries the silliest things in their purse.
Of course, it’s rude to go through another woman’s purse – so each woman only goes through their own.
If they have the item on the list in their purse, they get a point! The woman with the most points at the end is the winner. This is our what’s in your purse wedding shower game!
Here are some things to add to your scavenger hunt list:
- Band Aid
- Passport
- Credit card
- Lipstick
- Licence
- Cell phone
- Coin
- Comb
- Compact Mirror
- Hand sanitizer
- Tissues
- Pain killers
- Dental floss
- Perfume
- Library Card
- Gift card
- $20 bill
- Mints
- Receipt
- Tweezers
- Chocolate bar
- Diaper
- Coupon
- Deodorant
- Pepper spray
- Photo
- Pen
- Straw
- Piece of garbage
- Note
- Safety pin
- Phone Charger
Items to find for Bridal Scavenger Hunt (Outdoors)
- Flower
- Four leaf clover
- Something old
- Something new
- Something borrowed
- Something blue
- Cell phone
- A leaf shaped like a heart
- A pinecone
- A feather
- A statue
- A plaque (historic marker, monument, etc)
- A bench
- A butterfly
- A bird
Items to Find a Bridal Shower (around town)
- Something Old
- Something New
- Something Borrowed
- Something Blue
- A love note
- A photo frame
- A sentimental gift
- A heart
- A piece of beautiful jewelry
- A gift that you would give to the bride
- A gift that you would give to the groom
- Something sexy
Of course, you don’t expect your guests to buy everything on the list. So tell them to take a simple photo for proof instead!
If you’re going to do an around the town scavenger hunt, we might also recommend a photo hunt!
For this type of scavenger hunt, you aren’t just on the hunt for items, your guests are on the hunt to take photos around the town/city.
Here is an example of some things you might put on a bridal photo hunt list:
Bridal Photo Hunt List:
Take a photo:
- With a random stranger
- With someone wearing blue
- With Two people kissing
- With a stranger buying you a drink
- With a bald man
- Wearing a strangers hat
- In the park
- Sitting on a swing
- With a heart
- Wearing a stranger’s wedding ring
- With another bride-to-be
- With a person in uniform
- With lipstick kissed on your cheek
- At my favorite store
- Eating a doughnut
Of course, some of these tasks are much harder than others. So if you wanted, you could also divide your list into a point system. For example, taking a picture in the park is pretty easy.
So you might give 1 point if you take a picture in the park. But getting someone to let you wear their wedding ring – that’s not an easy task! So you could make that a five pointer. And so on and so forth. The person with the most points at the end is the winner !
And remember – just have fun with it! Today’s your day – do whatever you want to do!
Sara, a seasoned expert in wedding planning and date ideas, brings a wealth of experience to our couples blog. With a background in the television industry and hands-on involvement in a dozen weddings, including working as a wedding assistant on "My Fair Wedding with David Tutera," Sara has an innate understanding of the magic that makes weddings truly special. Growing up with four sisters has given her unique insights into the dating world, making her a go-to source for practical and heartfelt dating advice. Her knowledge and enthusiasm make her the perfect guide for couples seeking to infuse their relationships with creativity and love.