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We got married outside so we had horseshoes :)
But, as a way for our guests to get to know us better we did memory boxes. I got the idea from Mrs. Cream Puff and what she/I did was have 3 boxes filled with pictures & mementoes.
I broke the boxes down by age, so we had a baby-10yr old box; where we had pictures, toys, & other mementoes. The second was high school/ early college. The third was of just us, and I included notes we wrote to each other, cards, sports ticket stubs, etc. Everyone really loved them & it was fun for them to see alot of pictures of us from childhood into adulthood.
I attached my inspiration pic from Mrs. Cream Puff so you could get an idea :)
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Chinese weddings sometimes have the best man, or some guests play tricks on the couple or have them play games to "prepare" them for the wedding night. One wedding I went to, the best man was the person who organized the games and made the bride spank the groom and in another one, the bride had to use a spoon and move a hard-boiled egg up one pantleg of the groom and down the other. In another one, the groom was blindfolded and had to pick his new wife from a lineup.
Maybe you can get your DJ to do a kind of newlywed game and ask the audience to help with questions?
I was thinking that during dinner we would have a slideshow of us playing.
My fiance plays poker for a living and we were thinking of having a few tables of poker for those not dancing. I am not sure if it would be with or without money.
One of the groomsmen's daughter is 5 and has leukemia so we were thinking of donating poker winings to their family or to the lymphoma/leukemia society
I have told SO that if we do poker he haas to plan that whole aspect as I have no idea =)
i definitely think that we'll have cigars for M and i absolutely LOVE the game spades so i'd definitely try to figure out a way to incorporate that into the night, after all, for me a party ain't a party if spades aren't there ;). I also will do the traditional wedding fare (bouquet tossing, garter tossing, cake cutting and to smash or not, i'm not too sure yet.... but am doubtful I guess it'll go according to the moment) i also really like the idea of having all of the married couples get up the longest and those that have been married the shortest sit down etc to get the guests involved.. i'm not sure if we're going for a money dance or not, it's a huge tradition here, but we may...
We have a smilebooth, and then lots of dancing, and then, well, apparently I'm going to be kidnapped. Lots of crazy German traditions and mischeif. :p
We're doing an outdoor park reception, so there's going to be croquet, bocce ball, chalk and bubbles for the kids, maybe some board games in the adjacent pavilion, a string of photographs (not just fiance and me, but old pictures us with various guests who will be at the wedding).
We're not going to have a dance floor, obviously, but there will be iPod music and maybe some live music too - fiance is an artist and we might get some of his local musician friends to perform.
We had an the traditional dances (first, Bride/Dad, Groom/Mom, anniversary dance), the Hora, bouquet/garter toss, Irish Dancers performance.
The only group dance I remember playing was Thriller which was really funny, I can't wait to see the pictures!
We're having some sort of photobooth, yet to be decided. I also really really want to dance the Hora, but my fiance thinks that his non-Jewish family will be totally weireded out by it. Bummer.
We had a wishing tree for people to write wishes and hang on the tree. We also had a personalized guestbook with our photos that the guests could flip through.
I wanted to get the dancing started ASAP, so we combined the dance with the parents and skipped the garter. We made a last minute decision to do a bouquet toss, only because I really like the song by Beyonce. We also had a cake cutting, but it went by really quickly.
jduck: I love all your ideas.
I am not sure if you have kids yet, but chalk gets my daughter and friends so so messy =)
Maybe you could have a couple of cute wooded easels they could use, so they are not on the gound getting chalk all over them?
Your reception sounds so fun, perfect for a summer one
almostduffy - I know, I have thought about that! I don't have kids yet, but my two nieces are going to be my flower girls and they are pretty messy kids (well, you know, as far as kids go!). The easel idea might work, but I have a feeling the kids are going to getting food all over their cute clothes anyway... I'll just have to make sure I get good pics before that happens, haha.
Or, instead of chalk, I might provide some crayons and coloring books or paper for them instead.
I think we are going to do the wishing tree and also have board games! I am having a small wedding, and we love board games, so we are going to have some set up around so people can play! The focus of our reception isn't going to be dancing.
We also had gift bags at each of the kids spots with fun stuff. We got them coloring books and colored pencils, little cheap puzzles. We also went to party city for some cheap toys. They have bags of little things that you would give out as favors at a kids birthday party.
Here is our kids table with the gift bags
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we're having lawn games too!^^
@fiftyfoot...what is this kidnapping tradition? please explain!^^
one dutch tradition that i know allows everyone to learn more about the couple is the shoe game.
basically you come up with a bunch of questions, and the bride and groom both take off their shoes. you split the shoes, so the bride and groom both have one of each, and you set them in chairs in the middle of the dance floor back to back.
you ask questions like "who is the better cook", and "who is messier"... any kind of questions really, as long as the answer is 'the bride' or 'the groom', and then the couple raises the shoe they think is the answer, but they can't see what the other one is doing.
it's relatively easy, and pretty funny to watch depending on the questions.
We're having dancing for those who want to participate. Those who don't are more than happy to mingle.
I've honestly never seen games played or anything else that other folks describe. Your guests will know how to entertain themselves with no problem.
We're doing all the traditional dances, cake cutting, accessory throwing, etc. But we'll also have lawn games because they come with the venue. And I'd love to have some sort of an interactive "station" like caramel apples or something crafty, but the budget might make that impossible. I'll just have to wait and see.
I also was at a wedding where they had the bride and groom back to back in chairs on the dancefloor, but instead of shoes they each had what looked like a ruler with a round flat paper a the top that said "bride" and "groom" (looked like those signs you use at an auction when bidding). So they would just raise theirs if they thought he question pertained to them "who's the better kisser?" etc.
-Also,(not that this was a game, but funny) during the garter toss the bride and groom prearranged to have several funny items under her dress -rubber chicken, etc- for the groom to pull out first before the garter. It was hysterical.
We're getting married on a farm and are planning to have lots of lawn games; horseshoes, croquet, badminton...and we're bringing a slip n slide in case of rain!!
haha i'm going to make 400 jello shots... if that counts as an "activity"
I'm daydreaming of alcohol, dancing, and a fire pit. Pretty basic. I figure the adults will mostly want to socialize; the kids, however, will probably need some activies, and coloring/lawn and board games would be fun. :)
Now that I think about it...you know how they have games to play at Cracker Barrel while you're waiting for your food? Maybe you could do something like that. Bingo boards, that peg game thinger, etc.
we are having games planned by the moh and the best man... also we will have an hour of karaoke
lol TaraHartman! That is an activity for sure!
Our main attraction activity will be our photobooth guestbook. We'll have instant cameras and scrapbook pages for people to put their picture in and sign with different colored markers and pencils.
Aside from that, delicious food and great company are going to be the focus, just like any other awesome party my parents have given at their home. We are having stuff for the kids though - a kids table with butcher paper instead of a tablecloth for them to draw on with crayons, and little toys for them to play with. We also have horses so we're going to let them feed carrots to the horses :)
all of these things sound super fun! can't wait to see pics/hear how they go ladies!
I am going to have decks of cards available, as I know some of the guys will enjoy that while the ladies are dancing. We are going to do a slideshow that will play continuosly on a small screen that will show pics of us growing up, our family and friends and wedding events prior to the the wedding (bridal showers, cocktail party, etc.). I am also renting 2 dress forms that will display my moms and my FI moms wedding dresses with photos of our parents on their wedding day on a table next to the dresses.
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In trying to plan our reception, I keep thinking of different things we could or could not do during the reception.
I am not one for 'traditional' wedding elements - but, the last wedding I went to, made me rethink this. At that wedding, the only 'traditional' thing she did was cut her wedding cake. It honestly made it feel very slow and non-wedding. We all left feeling like it wasn't a very fun party.
So, it's got me thinking about what kinds of 'fun' wedding related elements I could include in our reception.
My goal is for people to get to know us a little better as a couple...