Wedding Weekend Pursuits
05 Aug 2010
Weekend marriage ceremonies are getting more popular, particularly as families are spread further apart. They usually begin on Friday night, continue with the wedding ceremony Saturday and conclude with a post-wedding breakfast on Sunday before everyone returns home.
Planning pursuits for these weekend-long celebrations doesn’t need to be tough; as a matter of fact, it can be rather a bit of fun if you keep everyone’s needs in mind. First, consider the wedding ceremony. Will this be a formal wedding with a sit-down dinner at its center? If so, you might want to ban a formal rehearsal dinner and replace it instead with a friendly barbecue dinner or picnic.
But how will you keep people occupied during the long weekend? There are many pursuits to consider. Will the marriage ceremony be near a lake? How about planning a day at the lake on Saturday, jam-packed with pre-wedding activities like swimming races and beach volleyball.
One favorite pre-wedding activity is a scavenger hunt. Prior to the marriage ceremony weekend, an index of meaningful items should be drawn up, and guests placed in two teams. The list should include the likes of ” get a catalog from the jewelry shop where (groom) bought (bride)’s ring” or “take a photo of the group at the location where the pair got engaged”. You will have to tailor the scavenger hunt list to the location of the wedding and the energy of the guests who will be participating.
You can also offer lavish prizes for the team that wins the scavenger hunt, like gift credentials or gourmet food and wine baskets. It might seem a plain choice to divide the teams into groups who know or are linked to the bride and teams who know or are related to the groom, but it could be a little more fun to mix it up a bit. You can create teams of friends versus family, or men versus women (always a popular choice).
Another activity that’s popular during wedding weekends is a competitive sport activity, such as baseball or flag football. Again, add a special twist. Offer prizes for performance (first home run takes a kiss from the bride) or make silly rules, like members of the bridal party have to wear tiaras while running bases or members of the groom’s family should always have their shirts on backwards.
It’s essential that during the wedding ceremony weekend, planners take into account that the weekend itself might be costly for some guests, particularly people who had to fly in for the occasion and most of the activities ought to be free, or inexpensive. If they’re more expensive, and planned for the whole group, they should be acquired by either the bride and bridegroom or their families.
But there are plenty of activities that do not have to be costly, but can provide big bang for the little buck, like the scavenger hunt suggested above. If the wedding weekend guests will mostly be family, you can schedule a home movie-viewing occasion, including home movies from both the bride and groom’s families. For even more fun, consider a pursuit where the movies are ground up and the people staying at the resort have to guess which family’s videos they’re watching. This might sound easy, but dependent on the contents, maybe hard, particularly if the the happy couple are babies in the pictures.
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