Do a quiz on the hen and buck?

Good old fashioned truth or dare, depends if everyone is close friends for that one.

The Peg Game

Give all members of the hen’s party two pegs. They must place them somewhere conspicuous on their clothing. Choose two words that are the ‘banned’ words for the day (such as ‘wedding’ or ‘dress’) and whenever someone says these ‘banned’ words, the person who hears it first can steal a peg from them. Whoever ends up with the most pegs at the end of the day wins a prize!

You're marrying THAT?

Find the ugliest photo of the bride’s husband-to-be that you can. Even the best looking men have ugly photos – perhaps taken when they are intoxicated or asleep! The bride must keep this photo with her throughout the night, and when a codeword is yelled out, she has to show a stranger the photo and announce that this is the man she is marrying! The person who yells out the codeword must buy her a drink if she does it with a straight face successfully.

Pash the Pic

All you will need for this one is a big picture of the bride’s favourite movie star, a scarf, and a tube of lipstick! Stick the picture up on the wall and get all the girls to put some lipstick on. Use the scarf to blindfold each participant, spin them around and then get them to try and ‘pash’ the picture of the movie star! Write each person’s name next to their lipstick mark and whoever gets the closest to ‘pashing’ the movie star on the mouth wins a prize! This game is best done with some butcher’s paper behind the picture to ensure no lipstick gets on the wall, or else you can also stick the picture to the fridge as the mislaid lipstick will wipe off easily.

Saint Clara

Saint Clara / Clare / Claire has long been considered a patron saint of good weather because her name in Spanish (clara) means clear, like the brightening of sky after a storm. The patroness’ link with eggs came about as her name (clara [de huevo]) is the Spanish for 'egg white'. Well, in any case, someone, somewhere along the line thought it would be a good idea to offer eggs to Saint Clara in exchange for good weather on the bride’s wedding day! So get creative with it. Print out a large picture of Saint Clara (here's one), grab a plastic drop sheet, and get all of the hen’s party to throw eggs at Saint Clara from a few metres away, trying to hit her square on the face! This game is a very fun one and you could go through many more eggs than one per person, because everyone always wants another go! Whoever gets the egg closest to the target (Saint Clara’s face) wins the prize.