Engagement Party Games

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The engagement party is a period when the groups of the couple will get to know each other. In some incidences, this may well be the first meeting between the two families or sets of friends and any icebreaker activity will be a welcome event.

In that light, whoever plans the engagement party (likely the bride’s family, but it can be the engaged couple or anyone else who would like to plan the party) should plan a few games and pursuits manufactured to help everyone get to know everybody else.

First up is a trivia game. Make a “Trivial Pursuit” type game with doubts about the bride and groom’s lives. You could contain the questions to just facts and occasions to do with both the the happy couple ( like how long did it take her to say “yes” when he asked, where did he propose, where did they meet, etc), or you can add questions concerning their lives outside of each other and before they met each other. Not only can this be fun, but also it’s an entertaining way for people to get to know each other and the engaged couple better.

One popular icebreaker that’s used at corporate functions and company parties can also work really well at engagement parties. Tape a card to each person’s back and encourage them to work the room, mingle with everyone and particularly try to get to know someone they have never met before. Before moving on to someone else, be certain to create a comment about the individual on the card on their back. Partiers write an impression of that person, like “she seems sweet” or “he knows a lot about the weather”.

This icebreaker ends when the mingling session is now over. The cards are then read individually and people not only get to know one another better, but enjoy hearing all the suggestions people made about them. Try to make sure that remarks are complimentary or somehow presented in a positive light. Hurtful suggestions, plainly, are not appropriate.

If this is truly the first occasion many of the guests have met, then another fun game involving the wearing of cards could be in order. In this game, each guest wears a card on their front that has their name on the front and a number on the back. They do not share with anyone what their number is. Guests mingle and chat and get to know each other over the course of the night-time.

Toward the end of the evening, the cards are flipped over and the number side is shown. Everyone gets a piece of paper and writes the numbers on the paper, then tries to correspond the name of somebody with their number. This fun game may be hard for people who are bad with names, but it’s fun even so.

For a pursuit that doesn’t put people in an instant quite so much, consider letting the already marrieds aid the to-be marrieds. Place two pieces of posterboard on the wall and mark them “advice from women” and “advice from men”. It is now time to offer advice about wedding planning, not about being married. That advice can come later. Encourage guests to offer their own wedding planning advice. The advice from seniors at the party might be decidedly different from the younger couples in the group, making for an enlightening group of suggestions.

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