Seated Wedding Reception Games

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Little is worse than having a wedding reception venue full of seated guests who look tired and maybe a little bit bored. Maybe this wedding doesn’t feature a DJ and rockin’ music. Or possibly the crowd isn’t into that whole dancing thing.

What to do? It’s not that difficult. The’re a myriad of activities you can plan that won’t only engage and entertain the guests, but also help them get to know each other and – most significantly – the bride and bridegroom just a little 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 have a DJ it may be him or her, or the best man or maid of honor, asks a number of questions. They may be simple, like “who was born in New York City”? Or they could be more complex, such as “who, at 6, broke their leg when they were playing 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 pertains to the bride or to the “groom” side if it’s the opposite. The guests’ guesses can be revealing, but even more informative, are the true answers. It’s a great, fun way for everybody to get to know some more about the the 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 might be a little too informative or too risqué. Remember, grandmothers and grandfathers and young ones will be present!

If it’s too much work to manufacture signs for each individual, you can make mainly two and produce two teams – a team of men and a team of women. Grouped together, the teams can work together to pick out the answer and answer as a group. This “men versus women” concept is invariably popular and sure to be fun for everybody.

One silly game that’s always a hit really puts the groom in the spotlight. How well does he know the experience and touch of his new bride? In this game, everyone finds out. You can do this a number of ways. You can enlist just the marriage ceremony party in this game, or as many of the wedding ceremony guests that want to take part.

Line each participant up and blindfold the groom. Put the bride somewhere around the mix, and send the groom on a quest for his bride. The participants can either shake the groom’s hand or give him a kiss on the cheek. In some versions, he may feel their hair or their leg. The points are your choice.

Dependent on how far you would like to take this game, you can contribute a fun element to it that is often popular. You have the groom feel the leg of each participant. The best man, or other male member of the wedding ceremony party, rolls up his pant leg, puts on a garter and has the groom feel that. The groom has to kiss whoever he considers to be his bride, while still blindfolded. Often, he winds up kissing a man.

For an activity that permits the guests to be audience members rather than 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 couple of times so he’s a moment dizzy. Guided only by the useful words of his recently married woman, he has to find her and get the part of food into her mouth. Be certain to have the wedding party shadowing him so the’re no accidents.

As soon as 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 make use of wedding cake or a piece of bread with dip. Put differently, don’t use anything too messy. If the groom has a hard time finding her mouth, he may likely smear the food on the bride’s face and that is one thing that won’t make a bride – prettily invented just hours before – too happy.

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