Pre Wedding Reception Pursuits
26 Jun 2010
The’re so many little points to worry about when planning a wedding ceremony some might get forgotten. One tiny detail that often gets overlooked is how to keep guests entertained prior to the wedding reception venue “officially” begins.
There’s no requirement that brides entertain their guests at all. In any case, they have already attended your wedding ceremony in a church (which was surely engaging and entertaining, right?) and they will soon get music, munchies. What more could they want? It turns out, a lot. While the the happy couple are off having pictures taken, the people staying at the resort are left to their own personal devices, chatting with other people and wondering when the buffet will open.
In that light, it’s worth at least considering some pre-reception options for keeping wedding day guests entertained until the reception begins. He’re a number of options, some tradition, some not so, but nonetheless fun.
First, you can do the traditional conventional thing and provide guests with drinks and perhaps some light snacks. If the wedding ceremony is in the summertime, how about providing lemonade and iced tea? Or if it’s the wintertime, coffee and hot tea or even hot cocoa depending on the style of your wedding. Providing a light snack isn’t a bad idea, either, and that can be some appetizer-type food or just nuts, particularly when the meal will be heavy.
Now, if you would like to stray from tradition, the’re many options. Some brides opt for entertaining the people staying at the resort in the truest sense of the expression. Clowns, anyone? How about live music?
If you want to venture into the fun and funky, consult the party planning pages of a local children’s or parent’s magazine. Here, you can find people who will entertain your children at their birthday parties, but many of them will happily include wedding jobs. You can hire a clown to make balloon animals for the kids (and adults) in attendance, or to juggle a few things. Some clowns are true entertainers and will happily get the crowd involved by fetching items out of women’s purses and juggling them.
Other non-traditional options for entertaining your invited guests include hiring a band to play music early. If you plan to have classical music at your wedding, you may have a band come and play covers of current pop songs, or you can just have your hired band arrive a bit early to entertain guests waiting for the full reception to begin.
If there are many children at the marriage ceremony, it’s not too expensive to lease a children’s band to sing and entertain the children for a bit. Then if the kids are a bit bored at the reception, they’ll have the memory of the earlier entertainment with them. In addition, while the children are being entertained, the adults can have a chance to chat and they will surely be grateful to the bride for thinking of them in that way.
Some other options for entertaining your restless crowd before the festivities begin are to add in them in the reception before it begins. This is a great time to ask people to sign the guest book and write something meaningful, since they will have more time than they would ordinarily have as they file into the reception hall.
If the reception and the wedding ceremony ceremony happen in the same location, but the bride and groom are off having pictures taken, it might not seem as if there is this dilemma of how to keep the guests entertained, but there as a matter of fact, is.
In this instance, you may have servers circulate with appetizer trays or you can do something more elaborate, such as some of the suggestions above. One favorite alternative doesn’t involve entertaining the people staying at the resort at all. Say the wedding is being held at a historic house or mansion. During the lull prior to the reception, guests can be presented a trip around the property. If the wedding and reception are both being held at the couple’s new home, a tour of the property may be in order (assuming your guest list is fairly small).
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