This is an easy DIY with some piping, paint, golf balls and twine. Change up this classic game by adding small pictures of your guests at the wedding for personalized fun. This makes for a great wedding party game for guests who have known the bride and groom during different life stages. Two players pair up against one another and each secretly choose one of the players in their mind. Who will end up with wedding cake on their face? Let the guests decide!
Leave out jars for bets on either the bride or groom. The jar with the larger amount decides whether the bride or groom ends up with the cake on their face! Puzzle-loving crowd? Create your own crossword for your guests with hints and questions from you relationship.
This crossword puzzle game also gets the table guests chatting and making new friends. Invite guests to include a message of love before placing their block at the top of the tower. Try not to topple the tower! How to play: Guest books come in all forms now—why not make yours interactive for the rest of your marriage? Set out a Jenga tower with instructions to write a message on the block itself. Guests can either play the game as they write, or build the tower up from the bottom.
Play with the message-filled set after the wedding or arrange the blocks in a large picture frame as a unique collage. Keep everyone crafting away with some old fashioned origami fortune tellers.
Include plenty of art supplies for decorating. How to play: Popular since elementary school, these fun-to-fold fortune tellers add a special romance and excitement to sitting down to dinner. Be sure to include a visual instruction for newbies and an adult on hand to help with writing and folding for the little ones. Include a collection of cards at the dinner table that encourage guests to share their own marriage advice for the newlyweds. Include a place for guests to both write and place their advice cards, and later turn these into a unique guest book.
For a special touch, arrange a wine bottle for each upcoming anniversary and ask guests to enter cards for each landmark year. What will be said during the toast portion of the evening? How to play: There are always a few standard sentiments in each maid of honor and best man speech. Create bingo boards for each dinner plate and let your guests play along with you. Remember to provide bingo chips and a fun prize for whoever reaches bingo first!
Name each dinner table by song title. When the song plays, the whole table must rush to the dance floor to get things moving! How to play: Helping a wedding table bond is not always simple. Add a little competition to the mix by challenging each table to rush the dance floor when a particular song plays throughout the night. The best show of silliness or grace wins the dance competition at the end of the evening.
Supply chalk or tape for an outdoor hopscotch tournament during the reception. How to play: Set aside an area where kids and adults alike can spread out and play hopscotch. Use multi-colored tape on a grassier surface or chalk where possible. Be sure to include sandbags for more complex games that can be played on a hopscotch course.
Build your own life-size version of this memorable childhood gem and add it to your list of cocktail-party lawn games. How to play: Drill out 35 large holes—five down and seven across—to build an adult-sized version of this childhood tic-tac-toe inspired game.
With one player on each side, guests drop colored discs into the slots in hopes to get a four-in-the-row combination before their opponent. Supply the smaller version for child guests at the party. A balloon wall pop welcomes guests to seek messages and prizes inside a wall of balloons just waiting to be popped! How to play: On a large cork board, attach a decorative collection of balloons in a festive pattern.
Instruct each guest to use a safety pin to pop one balloon each. Every balloon includes a secret message, instruction or a prize! Reward a few lucky poppers with first dibs at the dessert table or a champagne toast of their own. Add a touch of competition to the photo booth! At the end of the night, the couple chooses the silliest photo from the evening. How to play: Encourage guests to be as wacky as possible while arranging their poses in the photo booth.
Many photographers will print out the images into a scrapbook for immediate viewing. Either the guests or bride and groom can pick their favorites before the night is up. This simple and natural addition to outdoor games includes festively painted rocks and a DIY facbric tic-tac-toe board.
How to play: Ideal for simple outdoor cocktail hours and weddings with children, painted rock tic-tac-toe combines hand painted rocks and a DIY board for easy transport and play. Lay out the boards across picnic tables to encourage guests for a competitive game over conversation and wine. Set up a board and set of bocce balls to participate in this classic Italian outdoor cocktail and reception game.
Points are rewarded depending on proximity to the jack ball. Whether you're hosting an indoor or outdoor wedding reception, there are plenty of group games that will keep the party going. This is one of our favorite games to play at wedding receptions! The newlyweds take a seat in front of their guests, sitting back to back.
Each has one of their shoes, and one of their partners. The emcee or a member of the bridal party acts as host, and the couple has to answer the following questions simultaneously by holding up the shoe that corresponds with their answer. Estimate approximately 15 minutes to play the shoe game, and include questions like:.
Though your guests won't be playing, they'll be laughing it up as your answers reveal the truth about how you view yourselves and each other in this silly game. To encourage guest interaction, consider creating a custom wheel of activities that can be spun throughout the reception.
Transform a chalkboard into a creative word search that your guests can try their hand at all evening long. The trick to DIY-ing this word search game is to write the individual letters in permanent paint and provide chalk only for circling words. Get creative and include personal trivia about the two of you as a couple for guests to find. Rent a poker table, set up 10 seats and hire a dealer for the night. A poker station is usually a big hit with the gentlemen.
For artsy couples and guests, a dart art station is a fun daytime wedding reception activity. For the canvas, attach a couple dozen or more water balloons partially filled with paint to a large, blank canvas hung on a wall. Set up a dart throwing station at a safe distance no one wants paint splatter on their formal wear, after all. Friends and family can throw darts at the canvas which will pop and splatter the paint inside the balloons, creating a one-of-a-kind piece for you to keep!
Dressing up is technically a game Regardless, guests of all ages love a themed photo booth! There are so many ways to get creative with how your guests to take selfies and group shots together. And when it comes to props, the more, the merrier, of course!
Your photo booth can have whatever sort of theme or vibe that you want. Skew towards silly fun with boas, over-sized glasses and mustache sticks—or, class things up with pretty flowers, ornate frames and signs that commemorate the wedding date. If you're on Snapchat, you've probably noticed that when you're at certain venues or events new filters are available that are specific to that place. Those are called geofilters, and it's incredibly easy to create a custom one for your wedding reception.
Pricing is determined by the size of the area where the geofilter will be available and for how long it's up. Set up a sign to alert your social media savvy guests, and they'll be snapping away in no time! Offering a selection of quick, multi-player board games will entertain your more introverted guests throughout the evening. Classic games including Yahtzee, Uno, Scrabble and Life are all great options. Yep, that's right: You can even have video games at your wedding reception—you can even have small prizes for winners along the way.
We love multiplayer classics that get guests up on their feet including Dance, Dance Revolution, Rock Band or Guitar Hero, but gamer couples and guests might have their own favorites they want to have on hand! If you're having a more relaxed, casual wedding , you might want to consider setting up stations at your reception where your friends can relive their college days with drinking games like beer pong and flip cup.
One option: Substitute water for beer in the solo cups so things don't get too reminiscent of those college years. Another option is games for guests to play at their tables at the reception. Table games are perfect for breaking the ice among guests who might not know each other, or whiling away the time as they wait for the newlyweds to make their entrance.
Customize these free-to-download wedding Mad Libs that you can leave on tables around the reception for guests to pick up throughout the night. It's a fun way to get everyone talking and laughing and it will be a treat for the two of you to read later for some laugh out loud moments. Change the Dates. Invitations Invitations. Thank Yous. Shop by Style Shop by Style. Shop The Knot Invitations. Start a Registry. Add Store Registries.
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Fill it with these fun, must-play wedding games that are sure to score big with your guests. The Brauns. Carrie Anton The Knot Contributor.
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