Seated Wedding Reception Games
Little is worse than having a wedding venue overflowing with seated guests who look tired and maybe a minute bored. Possibly this wedding doesn’t feature a DJ and rockin’ music. Or maybe the crowd isn’t into that whole dancing thing.
What to do? It’s not that hard. There are a myriad of activities you can plan that won’t only engage and entertain the people staying at the resort, but also help them get to know each other and – most significantly – the bride and groom just a small amount bit better.
Here’s one that’s fun and might remind you just a little bit of a football game. Make a placard for each guest. On one side, letter “Bride” and on the other, “Groom”. Someone, and if you’ve a DJ it may be them, or the best man or bridesmaid, asks a number of questions. They could be simple, like “who was born in New York City”? Or they could be more complex, like “who, at 6, broke their leg when they were playing around with their German shepherd puppy”?
Guests don’t yell their answer, but rather show their placard, turning it to the “bride” side of they think the question concerns the bride or to the “groom” side if it’s the opposite. The guests’ guesses may be exposing, but even more informative, are the true answers. It’s a great, fun way for everyone to get to know a little more about the the happy couple.
One word of caution about the above activity: Keep ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends out of the questions and don’t ask something that can be a little too informative or too risqué. Remember, grandmothers and grandfathers and young kids will likely be present!
If it’s too much work to manufacture signs for each individual, you can make a couple and produce two teams – a team of men and a team of women. Grouped together, the teams can work together to decide on the answer and answer as a group. This “men versus women” concept is always popular and sure to be fun for everyone.
One silly game that’s always a hit really puts the groom in the spotlight. How well does he know the sense and touch of his new wife? In this game, everyone finds out. You can do this several ways. You can enlist just the wedding party in this game, or as many of the wedding ceremony guests that want to participate.
Line each participant up and blindfold the groom. Put the bride someplace around the blend, and send the groom on a probe for his bride. The participants can either shake the groom’s hand or provide him a kiss on the cheek. In a few versions, he might feel their hair or their leg. The points are up to you.
Dependent on how far you would like to take this game, you can add a fun element to it that is occasionally popular. You have the groom feel the leg of each participant. The best man, or other male member of the wedding party, rolls up his pant leg, puts on a garter and has the groom feel that. The groom has to kiss whoever he thinks is his bride, while still blindfolded. Often, he winds up kissing a man.
For an activity that permits the people staying at the resort to be audience members in place of participants, consider the game of “feed me”. In this game, the bride is seated and the groom is (again) blindfolded. He’s given a piece of food and then spun around a few times so he’s a small amount dizzy. Guided only by the helpful words of his recently married woman, he has to find her and get the piece of food into her mouth. Be sure to have the wedding ceremony party shadowing him so the’re no accidents.
Once the groom has fed his new bride, the tables are turned and she is blindfolded and must find him.
A few notes about this activity: when feeding the bride, don’t use wedding cake or a piece of bread with dip. Put differently, don’t make use of anything too messy. If the groom has a difficult time finding her mouth, he might likely smear the food on the bride’s face and that is one thing that will not make a bride – prettily manufactured just hours before – too happy.
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