Great Wedding Reception Activities

We’ve all been to receptions that are standard, where we celebrate the new married couple, watch them dance, and enjoy food and a beverage with them. But creative couples often enjoy coming up with fun games that include the entire guest list.

Including the guests is an excellent way to get people out of their chairs, meeting people they might not otherwise know and feeling like they are truly a part of the celebration, not just observers.

One fun and active game that can be played by all your guests, including grandma as well as the young children, is “want it now”.

In this game, you designate a master of ceremonies, if you have a DJ for your wedding reception, they can serve as the MC for any activities. Once the MC has the microphone, next you hand them a list of ’wants’ that was prepared before the reception. Everyone sits at their tables, and waits to hear what the MC will call out. For example, if the MC says he wants a person with painted toenails. All the women with painted toenails run to the front of the room and toward the MC. Each time a table sends someone to the front first, they get a point.

The amount of point given will be added up at the end of the game and the table with the most will win a prize. Make sure to put emphasis on these are ’wants’, like the painted toenails, or a child with a flower on her dress or perhaps a man with a mustache. But also include some surprises, like “a man with a brown purse” which will require a man to find a woman at his table with the brown purse and run up to the front of the room with it.

Another game is in the form of musical chairs, but instead of using regular chairs, the men are the chairs. The MC’s has all the men kneel on one knee to make a chair. The women begin playing the game of musical chairs, but when the music stops, they must find a knee to sit on. The elimination part of this game, differs from the original version of musical chairs, because people are eliminated when either the man falls down or the woman falls off his knee. Both are out either way, and if both fall down, they are also both out, as well as perhaps a bit bruised. This is a fun game that often brings on gales of laughter and adds to a relaxed reception atmosphere.

If many guests are traveling a good distance to the wedding or don’t know many other guests, it’s always fun to include a game that will allow them to not only get to know each other, but the bride and groom as well. For this game, you’ll need a MC again, which can be a very outgoing member of the wedding party or the DJ. All the guest at the reception should be divided into two groups, you can use the typical counting system of: “1, 2, 1, 2″, until they are all either a ’1’ or a ’2’. Then the two teams group together to form a team for playing the game.

The DJ, or MC, offers a series of questions relating to the bride and groom. The teams should work together to answer the questions, then as quickly as possible provide the answer. The bride and groom will confirm if the answer is correct or not. People will begin feeling like they are part of a team and not just a lone stranger to people and they will have fun in the process too. Plus, it is a really fun way to learn things about the bride and groom too!

Having fun interactive games during the reception, is a great way to get people to begin feeling more relaxed and help them to meet new people. Interactive wedding games are also a good way to help guests to ’loosen-up’, so they will stay longer and really begin to enjoy a long night of celebrating with the couple. It doesn’t matter if you have a large reception or a smaller more intimate one; interactive games work well in all weddings.

In addition, don’t assume wedding reception guests will be offended or annoyed by these active games. More often than not, wedding planners are told how much people enjoyed the reception because of the fun games they played.

Another fun interactive game, is one involving toasting; have toasts already written out and then pass out several toasts to each table, let the people at the table decide who will take turns in toasting the couple. You can find some funny weddings quotes to use for this, such as the one by Maryon Pearson; “Behind every great man there is a surprised woman”.

Another fun quote you could use is: ’I love being married because, it’s so great to find that one special person, that you can annoy for the rest of your life’. - Rita Rudner.

The wonderful event of a wedding is an occasion that embodies many of the most positive and life affirming aspects of human relationships. They are an opportunity to highlight the love that draws people together and that makes dreams come true. But, with all the wonders of weddings comes a great deal of stress over the orchestrating of the many details to put together a grand celebration. For this reason, more and more couples are turning to wedding planners to help them with the arrangements and to help alleviate the stress on the couple.

A wedding planner can step in and take care of the thousands of “moving parts” that need to be taken care of so that the wedding can come off without a snag. With a professional wedding planning on board for the event, the happy couple can focus on the big decisions and other plans and preparations, such as the honeymoon or their living arrangements.

In most cases, wedding planners will sit down in a meeting with the couple in order to get a picture of the couple’s preferences and tastes. In the first meeting the wedding planner will try to grasp a sense of what the most important elements and priorities are for the couple and their special day.

With the big picture view, a wedding planner is then able to use their resources and connections to start lining up the various choices for each area that needs to be arranged. They can gather information on everything, from the invitations, the choices of wedding ceremony sites, transportation, the food and drink options, the choices in wedding cakes, the wedding gown that the bride will wear, gown accessories, rehearsal parties weddings usually include, wedding photographers and wedding videographers, to the decorations for the church and banquet hall, including flowers and wedding candles. They may even take care of the wedding gown preservation details. They can sort through options according to the overall desires and preferences of the couple.

Once the wedding planner has a number of choices lined up and ready to present, they will meet again with the bride and groom so that they can make some additional decisions that will move the whole process along. Then the planner can take action on those decisions, taking charge of all the minute details and leaving the couple to focus on their daily work and lives.

One of the major benefits that couples enjoy while working with a wedding planner is simply having someone to look to who knows exactly what needs to be done and the sequence of events that must be scheduled. Since most couples are not experts at planning weddings, it can become overwhelming very quickly, both with the details that they know they must take care of, as well as the many things that don’t even occur to a couple.

Because a wedding planner has so much experience and has planned many such events in the past, they know all aspects of what needs to be taken care of and can anticipate problems and help the couple avoid pitfalls as well. Simply having such experienced guidance throughout the process can be an enormous help and can reduce the stress of the occasion a great deal.

A wedding planner can also be helpful in finding the best prices and can often save the couple much more than what they will pay a planner in fees. This is because the wedding planner has established relationships and can often negotiate better prices because they know exactly where to shop for the best deals. It is like having an insider on your team.

Another advantage of working with wedding planners is that they provide a “third-party” perspective on decisions. Sometimes a couple will disagree about certain details and cannot find a compromise. A wedding planner can often step in and offer an objective opinion and smooth the way for the perfect wedding event.

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