Seated Wedding Reception Games
12 Aug 2010
Little is worse than having a wedding location full of seated guests who look tired and perhaps a moment bored. Perhaps 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. There are a myriad of activities you can plan that will not only engage and entertain the people staying at the resort, but also help them get to know each other and – most significantly – the the happy couple just a little bit better.
Here’s one that’s fun and might remind you just a small amount 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 can be them, or the best man or maid of honor, asks a series of questions. They might be simple, like “who was born in New York City”? Or they could be more involved, 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 concerns the bride or to the “groom” side if it’s the opposite. The guests’ guesses can be informative, but even more revealing, are the true answers. It’s a great, fun way for everyone to get to know a little more about the bride and bridegroom.
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 exposing or too risqué. Remember, grandmothers and grandfathers and young kids will likely be present!
If it’s too much work to create signs for each person, you can make a couple and create two teams – a team of men and a team of women. Grouped together, the teams can work together to select the answer and answer as a group. This “men versus women” concept is always 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 sense and touch of his new bride? In this game, everyone finds out. You can do this a few ways. You can enlist just the marriage ceremony party in this game, or as most of the marriage ceremony guests that want to participate.
Line each participant up and blindfold the groom. Put the bride someplace in the mix, and send the groom on a probe for his bride. The people who are taking part can either shake the groom’s hand or supply him with a kiss on the cheek. In some versions, he might feel their hair or their leg. The particulars are your choice.
Dependent on how far you would like to take this game, you can include a fun element to it that is sometimes popular. You have the groom feel the leg of each participant. The best man, or other male member of the marriage ceremony party, rolls up his pant leg, puts on a garter and has the groom think 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 permits the people staying at the resort to be audience members in place of 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 minute 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 party shadowing him so there are no accidents.
As soon as the groom has fed his new wife, 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 bride and groom wedding 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 may likely smear the food on the bride’s face and that is one thing that won’t make a bride – prettily made up just hours before – too happy.
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