Wedding Reception Games

Wedding reception games have a way of making your wedding fun and entertaining while making your special day even easier to remember. There are some games you can plan into your reception that can liven everything up a bit and make people want to stay until the end.

We've all been to those boring receptions that make you want to leave early. You know, the ones where we welcome the new married couple, watch them dance, eat the cate with them, take some pictures, eat some food and go home. But creative and fun receptions are often filled with exciting games that involve everyone on the guest list.

Including all of the guests at the wedding reception is an great way to involve people, getting them out of their chairs, get them meeting people they may not otherwise know, and make them feel like they are part of the actual celebration, not just petty observers.

One of the active wedding reception games that everyone, including grandparents and young children, is called "Want it Now". In this fun game, a designated master of ceremonies (a DJ can also serve this role) will have a list of "wants" prepared prior to the reception. Everyone will sit at their assigned tables and wait to hear the command. The MC will say something like "I want a person with painted toenails." Every women with painted toenails must run up to the front of the room toward the MC. When a table sends someone to the front of the room first, they receive a point.

Points will be tallied up during the course of the game and prizes will be awarded at the end of the game. When you are putting the game together, you must come up with some unique but obvious "wants" such as with the painted toenails or like a man with a mustache. To make it interesting, also include some surprises such as "a man with a Coach purse" which requires one of the men from a table to find a woman with a Coach purse and will run up to the front of the room with it.

Here's more fun wedding reception games including all your guests. One is a creative game of musical chairs using the men at the reception as the chairs. Every man in the room lines up and kneels on one of their knees. All of the women then begin playing the game of musical chairs, walking in a circle around the men. But when the music stops, the women must find a man's knee to sit on. None of the "chairs" are removed during the game, but people are eliminated when either the man or the woman falls down. Just make sure to warn everyone about falling as they can get hurt when they fall.

Wedding reception games are also a great chance for people to get to know one another, especially if many of the guests have to travel for the wedding. This is also a great chance for everyone to get to know the bride and groom better. You'll need the MC for this game as well. The wedding reception guests are broken down into two groups, which can be done by having everyone count off "1, 2, 1, 2" and so on until all of the guest list is either a "1" or a "2". Then each of the two groups gather together for the duration of the game.

The MC offers a predetermined series of questions relating to the bride and groom. Each group will work together in order to answer the questions, then as fast as they can, provide the answer. The bride and groom confirm whether the answer is correct or not. This is a perfect way for an otherwise "stranger" guest to get to know each other and have some fun in the process. Guests will also learn a lot about the bride and groom that they didn't already know.

Organizing wedding reception games can be a wonderful way to get people active and involved during the ceremonies and will make them feel that they are indeed part of the festive celebration. It's also a great way to fill in some time during the reception. If you know the guests aren't the dancing type or if you just want to loosen people up a bit, these games can do the trick. These games will work for just about any group.

Wedding Toast

A wedding toast is that special moment to recognize the bride and groom during their special day. If you are part of the wedding party, particularly the best man or bride's maid, it is usually your responsibility to give the toast in front of a huge room full of people. Coming up with the right words to say isn't easy, and if you aren't used to speaking in front of people, you may become very nervous when you are in the spotlight during the wedding reception.

Giving a toast is a traditional responsibility that often scares both the speaker and the recipients. You never know what the person saying the toast is going to say until it's too late. While most times it's not something particularly long or involved, it's the public speaking aspect of the toast (which doesn't seem to sit well with most people) and can really put the people giving the toast on the spot.

The first thing you have to decide when planning the wedding is if the wedding toast is going to be kept traditional (the best man, maid of honor, father of the bride speaking at the wedding reception) or if you are looking for something a little different to spice it up. In a traditional sense, the toasts can be just a few words congratulating the bride and groom on their special day. Find the best wedding toast if you are the best man, father of the bride, bride's maid.

Or, if you want to add a more creative touch to your wedding by removing the traditional toast all together, you can try something different from the normal venue. Understand, there are no set rules that require a toast at any wedding. In my opinion, weddings are unique events that should reflect the unique personalities of the bride and groom tying the knot. There are many activities you can do differently and there are plenty of options if you want to deviate from the traditional wedding toast.

A fun and memorial way to add a twist to your wedding day is to go the video route, which typically asks all of the guests who attend the wedding to essentially make a wedding toast on camera after which the video is given to the bride and groom to help them remissness in the future. This isn't a unique idea, but it does solve some of the issues like putting people on the spot and will gives everyone a chance to say special words to the bride and groom.

Another fun way to liven up the wedding reception is to "pass the microphone". It can either be a serious activity or a silly one, depending on how outgoing the people are at the reception. Most people who choose to do this like to keep it silly to enlighten the mood. Say the bride's father takes the microphone first and says a few words. Then he chooses who to give the mic to next. This can be done using the last letter of their last name and selecting someone who has a first name starting with that letter. The passing of the mic continues until everyone who wants to say something gets a chance.

Passing of the microphone to foster a wedding toast from multiple people does still put people on the spot, but it can also be a lot of fun. Getting people to say something from the hip when they least expect it about the bride and groom can result in interesting, funny and truthful results.

Yet another great way to make the wedding toast more interesting is to have one person from each table give a toast. You can number the tables and at random times during the reception, have MC or DJ call a number requiring the guests at that specific table to decide amongst themselves who will give the toast for that table. Certainly, more than one person can give the toast if they want to, but there will most likely be at least one person at each table who will stand up and toast the newlyweds.

There are many options to add a wedding toast to your wedding. It's not just about tradition. Who wants the same ole wedding their friends or family had. You want something special and different that you can remember for the rest of your life together.

If you are tasked to come up with a toast for someone's wedding, I recommend visiting the Wedding Toasts link to the left under Helpful Wedding Links to help you create the perfect toast that will accommodate the personalities of the couple getting hitched.