Engagement Party Games
03 Jul 2010
The engagement party is a period when the groups of the pair will get to know each other. In some incidences, this may be the first meeting between the two families or sets of friends and any icebreaker activity will be a welcome occasion.
In that light, whoever plans the engagement party (likely the bride’s family, but it may be the engaged couple or anybody who would like to plan the party) should plan a few games and pursuits designed to help everyone get to know everyone else.
First up is a trivia game. Build a “Trivial Pursuit” type game with doubts about the bride and groom’s lives. You may contain the questions to just facts and events with reference to both the bride and groom ( such as how long did it take her to say “yes” when he asked, where did he propose, where did they meet, etc), or you can contribute questions concerning their lives outside of each other and before they met one another. Not only can this be fun, but also it’s an entertaining method 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 likewise work really well at engagement parties. Tape a card to each person’s back and encourage him or her to work the room, mingle with everyone and particularly try to get to know someone they have never met before. Before moving on to a different person, be sure to produce a comment about the individual on the card on their back. Partiers write a sway of that person, like “she seems sweet” or “he knows a lot about the weather”.
This icebreaker ends when the mingling session is over. The cards are then read one by one and people not only get to know one another better, but enjoy hearing all the comments people made about them. Try to ensure that comments are complimentary or in some manner presented in a positive light. Hurtful suggestions, obviously, are not suitable.
If this is truly the very first time many of the guests have met, then another fun game involving the wearing of cards may 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 don’t 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 takes its piece of paper and writes the numbers on the paper, then tries to correspond the name of someone with their number. This fun game can be hard for people who are bad with names, but it’s fun all the same.
For a pursuit that doesn’t put people on the spot quite so much, consider letting the already marrieds be of assistance to 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 older people at the party might be decidedly different from the younger couples in the group, making for an enlightening group of comments.
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