You want your wedding to be remembered for the right reasons. While the ceremony involves making vows and reflecting on the future of your relationship, the reception celebrates your union.
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Wedding receptions traditionally include drinks and snacks upon arrival, dinner, and dance. Wedding receptions have also changed with the times.
Wedding Reception Ideas
Couples today still enjoy many traditional elements but are looking for something extra to make their reception memorable for themselves and their guests.
Hiring a professional wedding planner or entertainer is a great way to relax and enjoy your special day. You and your guests can relax when you leave the reception entertainment to professionals.
We’ve compiled a list of fun ideas for wedding receptions, from table games to less traditional entertainment.
Wedding Day Bingo Games
It’s a great way to get guests to interact. It’s also a great way to keep them entertained while the wedding party is having their photos taken.
Requirements:
Bingo cards with descriptions of guests (e.g., wearing a fascinator or working with the bride)
Pens
Small Prize
How To Play:
Give each guest a Bingo card upon arrival (Etsy or Amazon UK, you can also make your own).
The guests must find other guests that match the description on the card and then write their names in the appropriate boxes.
You cannot use the same guest to fill up more than one box.
The prize goes to the first guest who gets a whole house.
Wedding Speech Bingo
The speeches will be fun, no matter how bad they may be.
The bingo cards should include words or phrases associated with wedding speeches, like my husband and I’. Guests should pay attention to the lessons and mark off words as they hear them. Keep the speakers in the dark to make it even more entertaining. Watch their amusement when guests applaud at random moments in your speech!
SnapHappy
This is a fun way to entertain guests and provide different memories from your wedding day. You can ask guests to snap photos of the 10-20 most memorable moments from your wedding. For example, the bride and groom kissing or the bride’s mom dancing. Remember to remind them to send you the photos afterward.
Wedding Crackers
Why not add them to crackers and make your wedding favors unique? Personalize a hacker set with fun facts, conversation starters, or small wedding favors. Add conversation starters to the pre-made crackers.
Wedding Day Charades
You can place cards on the table with ideas for wedding themes. The categories could include romantic films, love songs, phrases related to weddings, etc. The game can be played at the dinner table or between courses.
Wedding Bake-Off
This is guaranteed to make you laugh. Aprons are essential, as they can get messy. Here’s the way it works:
People:
Four teams of two volunteers each (the bride and groom can be included as a team or individually)
One ‘expert’ (competent baker at home) will demonstrate simple fondant roses and piping.
Two judges (preferably familiar with GBBO TV)
Each team needs:
Aprons
Six cupcakes without decorations
Buttercream in a small bowl and a spoon
Disposable piping bag with star-shaped nozzles
Green icing in small tubes (available at most supermarkets).
Sugar paste in different colors
Display stands or plates made of cardboard for each team
Paper plates and knives are available for sampling.
Show your team how to make swirls, rolled sugar, and green leaves. Give your teams 10 minutes to create professional-looking cupcakes. The judges should sample the cupcakes and comment on them. They can also give feedback.
Floristry Fun
One (less messy!)The Variant of this game is to have guests replicate the bride’s wedding bouquet. Another (less messy!)The Variant of this game is for guests to replicate the bride’s bouquet. You can play this game with silk flowers, Oasis scissors, florists’ tape, plastic holders, ribbons, and cheap silk” flowers. This version will take a bit more time. The judges could give marks to bouquets that are not fragile, match the style or design of the bride’s bouquets, or are most impressive. Why not let the bride test them out?
Adult Bouncy House
A bouncy house is a fun way for kids and adults to let out their inner Tiggers. Tell your guests about the bouncy castles in advance so that they can dress appropriately. Bouncy castles and wedding finery don’t mix.
Candy Cart
It’s popular to serve old-fashioned favorites that will take guests down memory lane.
Ice Cream Van
Cool ideas for summer weddings
If you are based in Ireland, you can order an ice cream van or other party food directly on the PartyWizz website.
Image Credit: The Vintage Ice Cream Company
Garden Games
The games are perfect for the summer and spring months. They can be easily hired. Included in the games are:
Connect Four
Giant Jenga
Quoits
The Noughts & Crosses
Croquet
Giant Snakes & Ladders
Coconut Shy
Limbo competition
Magician
Hire the best wedding magicians for your special day. A magician can keep guests entertained while photos are taken or between dinner and evening reception.
Quiz
A wedding quiz can be a lot of fun and an excellent ice-breaker. You can hold your quiz at a formal meal, where each table will form a group, or start the evening with it. You could ask questions about the newlyweds, their wedding traditions, famous couples or the wedding year. Questions could be about the wedding year, famous couples, or even the new couple.
Play the traditional quiz with paper, pens, and a quizmaster, or have even more fun on a mobile phone and digital screen using platforms like Kahoot, where the leaderboard on the screen will bring out the competitive side of your guests!
