Plan Your Wedding Games
Although weddings are sacred events, they can also be fun --- particularly the reception. There's more to making a wedding reception fun than the bouquet and garter tosses. But planning the right games and activities to spice up a reception can be challenging when the vast majority of your guests aren't likely to know each other. Effective wedding reception games should break the ice, get the guests working together and create fun-filled memories for all in attendance.
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Make the Garter a Relay Baton
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Make a change to the traditional garter toss. The groom takes off the bride's garter and traditionally flings it toward his groomsmen. But instead, have the groom hold the garter and run it over to another chair about 15 feet from the one the bride was sitting on, where a groomsman is sitting and waiting in his most "sexy girl" pose. The groom puts the garter on his groomsman's calf. While this is going on, another groomsman positions himself in what was the bride's chair, again striking a pose. The groomsman with the garter on gets up and dashes to the bride's former chair, takes the garter off his calf and puts it on the seated groomsman. The relay can continue until all groomsmen have worn the garter. For added fun, continue the relay involving randomly selected wedding guests.
Getting to Know the Bride and Groom
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The best man, maid or matron of honor and the couple's parents work together ahead of time to assemble fun and interesting facts about the bride and groom. The facts are written on index cards, one fact per card, with the fact on one side and a question seeking to elicit the fact on the other. So if the fact were that the bride was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., the question side of the card would read "Where was the bride born?" The answer side would say "Kalamazoo." The DJ, best man or emcee directs each question to a different table of guests, encouraging the table to work toward an answer together.
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Singing Glasses
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Make your reception attendees work to see you kiss. Place a card on each table at the reception that reads: "Warning! Do NOT clink your glasses unless your entire table is prepared to stand and sing a verse and chorus of a love song. The bride and groom will NOT kiss unless your table meets its musical obligation." The wedding guests will take it from here, and all the bride and groom must do is refrain from kissing until the song is sung.
Bride or Groom?
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Give every table two large poster board signs, one saying "BRIDE" and the other saying "GROOM." At a designated point in the reception, the emcee introduces the game and asks each table to vote enthusiastically as to which partner the question applies to. Have a list of "who" questions such as, "Who will be the messiest?" or "Who will hog the covers?" or "Who dated more before they found each other?" The wedding couple will need signs as well and will act as final arbiters but should refrain from raising the correct sign until all others have weighed in.
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- Photo Credit wedding image by Mat Hayward from Fotolia.com sexy Braut image by Jürgen Pannes from Fotolia.com couple on sofa with glasses of wine image by david hughes from Fotolia.com
