Seated Wedding Reception Games
Little is worse than having a wedding reception venue full of seated guests who look tired and perhaps a little bit bored. Maybe this wedding doesn’t feature a DJ and rockin’ music. Or perhaps the crowd isn’t into that whole dancing thing.
What to do? It’s not that hard. The’re a myriad of pursuits you can plan that will not only engage and entertain the guests, but also help them get to know each other and - most significantly - the bride and groom 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’ve a DJ it may be him or her, or the best man or maid of honor, asks a number of questions. They might be simple, like “who was born in New York City”? Or they could be more complicated, 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 relates to the bride or to the “groom” side if it’s the opposite. The guests’ guesses can be revealing, but even more exposing, are the true answers. It’s a great, fun way for everybody 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 revealing or too risqué. Remember, grandmothers and grandfathers and young children will likely be present!
If it’s too much work to create signs for each person, you can create a couple and create two teams - a team of men and a team of women. Grouped together, the teams can work to select the answer and answer as a group. This “men versus women” concept is invariably 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 experience 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 nearly all of the marriage 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 quest for his bride. The participants can either shake the groom’s hand or give him a kiss on the cheek. In a few versions, he might feel their hair or their leg. The facts are your choice.
Depending 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 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 ends up kissing a man.
For a pursuit that allows the people staying at the resort to be audience members as opposed to 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 moment dizzy. Guided only by the helpful words of his recently married woman, he has to find her and get the bit of food into her mouth. Be certain to have the wedding ceremony party shadowing him so the’re no accidents.
As soon as the groom has fed his 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 date cake or a piece of bread with dip. Put differently, don’t use 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 won’t make a bride - prettily invented just hours before - too happy.
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