Bow is the bridal shower games app for the host running the whole afternoon from one phone: fourteen games, a Shower Mode running order built around the gift opening, and a keepsake the bride keeps forever. Made for iPhone and iPad. One payment, no subscription, and nobody else downloads a thing. See the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Support.
Download Bow on the App Store (coming soon).
Bridal shower games, kitchen tea games, all in one app
The best bridal shower games are the ones nobody has to prepare. No printing, no props, no laminating a stack of cards at midnight, and no asking twenty guests to install the same app. Bow keeps the whole shower on the host’s phone and passes it around the room, so a game starts in seconds and the bride stays the centre of attention.
Whether you call it a bridal shower, a wedding shower or a kitchen tea, the app is the same: warm, classy, and written for a room with the bride’s grandmother in it. There are no drinking games anywhere in Bow, and nothing that would embarrass anybody in front of family.
Gift Bingo, played during the gift opening
The gift opening is the longest stretch of any shower and usually its quietest. Bow deals a different bingo card to every guest, drawn from a bank of predicted gifts plus the squares you type in yourself because you have seen the registry. Send the cards to the group chat as pictures, then daub the master board as she unwraps. Lines and full houses get called out loud. It is the single most shower-native thing this app does.
The fourteen games
Every game is about the bride and written to play out loud, so the whole room is in on it.
- Gift Bingo A unique card for every guest, daubed live while she opens the gifts.
- How Well Do You Know the Bride? The room answers, the bride judges, somebody gets crowned.
- How Old Was the Bride? Her photographs develop on screen like polaroids and everybody guesses her age. Photos stay on the phone.
- What Would She Pick? Two doors. The room commits, then she opens hers.
- Her Story The room supplies the words with no idea what they are building, then the app performs the finished story about her.
- Bride Trivia A game-show board you can cast to the telly for the full show.
- Emoji Decode Decode the emoji before the ring runs out.
- Guess How Many The jar of kisses you counted this morning, scored properly.
- The Purse Raid The host calls an item and everybody raids their bag. Grandmothers clean up.
- Perfect Pairs Flip to match the things that belong together.
- Word Scramble Big tiles, jumbled letters, two teams, one clock.
- Don’t Say Bride The clothespin classic with a steal log, running quietly all afternoon.
- Door Prize Scratch Real foil to rub off for the centrepiece raffle, or a gentle forfeit.
- Wise Words Advice, recipe cards and wishing-well wishes, straight into her keepsake.
Shower Mode strings them into a running order with the gift opening at its centre and the Awards to close, and every game played ties another ribbon onto her bouquet.
A keepsake she keeps
The old shower tradition is that the bows from the opened gifts are tied into a rehearsal bouquet. Bow makes that the app’s home screen: every game adds a ribbon, and the bouquet blooms as the afternoon goes on. At the end it compiles into a keepsake with the advice, the recipe cards, the wishes, the finished stories and the awards, ready to share or print for her.
Free bridal shower games, upgraded to something she will remember
Plenty of free bridal shower games live on a printout or a random website. Bow is free to download and explore, then unlocks all fourteen games with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, no monthly fee, no ads, and no upsells during the party. One payment, and it is yours for this shower and every shower after.
Kitchen tea games and the wishing well
In Australia and New Zealand it is a kitchen tea, and Bow is written for that room too: the recipe-card pack, the wishing-well wishes, and a Home and Kitchen trivia category, all authored in the local register rather than translated.
Why one phone is the whole point
Bow is designed so the host holds the phone and the room plays together, looking at each other instead of down at twenty separate screens. Nobody downloads the app but you, nobody makes an account, and nothing needs signal once you have started. It is her day, kept simple, kept lovely, and kept in one pair of hands.
Bow is coming to the App Store as Bridal Shower Games: Bow. Questions or ideas: hi@moonshot.ie.