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steamypile
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Hey All,
So the maid of honor and I (the best man) have been tasked with coming up with 2 wedding games for the reception. At first I thought they would be some light-hearted "break the ice" type of games (something like "does the bride/groom know their sig-o better than their friends? lets ask some semi-embarrassing questions and see!), but the bride has said she wants them to be something to get the crowd excited, pumped, and out to the dance floor after the cake cutting. The plan seems to be if people naturally migrate out there and get dancing we can skip the games, but if people just stand around or go back to their seats we'll need to get them going. Does anyone have any particular ideas? I have googled a bit, but the types of games I am finding are more just "break the ice" types more so than "get the crowd to the dance floor".
I don't know the maid of honor too well, but I am fine with embarrassing myself if thats what it takes! Thanks guys.
So the maid of honor and I (the best man) have been tasked with coming up with 2 wedding games for the reception. At first I thought they would be some light-hearted "break the ice" type of games (something like "does the bride/groom know their sig-o better than their friends? lets ask some semi-embarrassing questions and see!), but the bride has said she wants them to be something to get the crowd excited, pumped, and out to the dance floor after the cake cutting. The plan seems to be if people naturally migrate out there and get dancing we can skip the games, but if people just stand around or go back to their seats we'll need to get them going. Does anyone have any particular ideas? I have googled a bit, but the types of games I am finding are more just "break the ice" types more so than "get the crowd to the dance floor".
I don't know the maid of honor too well, but I am fine with embarrassing myself if thats what it takes! Thanks guys.
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Also, I don't see how a dollar dance would achieve the goal of getting people up and dancing. It seems more likely that people would queue up.
... I got nuthin.
The first was the bride and groom sitting back to back on a pair of chairs. They take their shoes off and exchange one. Then they answer questions about their relationship by raising one or the other. You start innocent enough "Who make the first move?", "Who proposed?", "Who did the most work for the wedding?" and then move on to slightly more intimate, but funny stuff, "Who prefers to be on top?".
The other needed 13 chairs and 13 players. Essentially it's musical chairs. Each round an object is announced and then everybody leaves their chairs, gets the object and gets back to a seat, but you steal one chair per round. The loser draws a slip from a bowl that has some promise they make to do something for or with the new couple "Invite them over for dinner", "Spend national holiday X together", etc. etc. on a given month. There are only twelve slips of paper so the winner doesn't draw a slip, instead he gets to dance with the bride or groom. You start with innocent/easy items "a watch", "A belt", "a lady's shoe" and move on to trickier things "a bra", "a tampon" and the last one was "a roll of toilet paper" (although we needed another round, so it ended up being "An earn of corn" because we happened to be next to a corn field)
The way that the dancing normally starts is that the bride does her dance with her father. Then with the groom. Then the bridesmaids, best men and so on and so forth join in, and then the music just keeps going with an already populated dancefloor. BAM. Job done.
Other ways are to close off the other room, or place some other object in the next room to draw attention willingly. Working with what you have been given, a good way to get people dancing would be to have you and the maid of honor (and your SOs should you have them) compete with the bride and groom in dancing, and then deliberately not stop after judging is complete. A bit of work on your part, but odds are very good that if two couples are out on the floor having a good time, others will join.
At a wedding, folks are going to follow the Bride and Groom. They are literally the life of the party, getting them animated will do the same for everyone else.
Instead of the couple pocketing the money, donate it to a charity of their choice.
At our wedding (and most of the dozen or so I've been to in the past couple years), instead of the guests tinking their glasses to get us to kiss, they had to come up and make a donation (which we gave to cancer research in my wife's late father's name). Has always been a success.
As far as getting everybody to the dance floor, I don't think games are going to help that. If somebody is a lazy grump or too shy (or whatever the reason) to dance I don't think they will be any more likely to get involved in a public game. When the dance starts just make some kind of an announcement that the couple would love to see everybody out on the dance floor, and play a song that everybody can get into (don't start with club music, or polka's).
But that's not necessarily going to get people on the dance floor.
The Poles polka. The Irish drink and do something awesome. Its all good.
I've never gotten married, but at all the weddings I've been too the part my cousins and I have always been most excited for is the dancing. Unless all the guests are old people and/or socially awkward then you probably wont have trouble convincing people to dance
Assuming it's an alcohol-fulled evening, as all weddings should be, tasks requiring physical skill such as limbo or musical chairs are great for a)Tom Bergeron, and b) practicing your field medic training.
Having said that, I would pick a fun looking couple during dinner and tell them they need to start the party with some Gaga or JLo-style moves. Then tell the DJ separately when they get up on the floor to play some Brahms or something. See. this is why you should leave it to the professionals,
the chair dance is horrible. and I say this as a heavy girl who's terrified of heights.
Although, the Hora part of the chair dance is a blast and usually the only part of any celebrations that I used to dance to. Great big circle dance to fast paced music that technically has choreography but nobody really knows exactly what the foot movements are supposed to be?
Hella fun time.
Just don't actually put them up in the chair.
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I agree that something like this seems odd...are you thinking of the money dance in some filipino weddings? I have seen that and it seems a bit odd. Would be out of place for this particular wedding (chinese).
Thanks so far for the ideas, it's kind of a weird situation thrown at us by the bride. In her timeline, she said "can you have 2 games in mind, we may or may not play the games depending on the mood of the party. You can ask the MC about it after the cutting of the cake bc if everyone is dancing and drinking then no game is necessary." Which obviously can go multiple ways. I interpret the games as a way to liven up the mood and the room and eventually encourage people to the dance floor. Since this is all happening post-cake cutting, something like trivia (even naughty trivia!) would be a strange change of pace.
In my task list of responsibilities, it isn't really highlighted much further ("possibly host 2 games with xxxx during reception dinner, depending on mood of party")
I talked to her as well, and she wasn't terribly more forthcoming on what she actually wanted; just something to "liven the mood".
me: I don't know if XXX asked you, but had a quick q about the wedding games, is the intent to be to liven up the crowd if people are reluctant to get out and dance and mingle? sort of an ice breaker?
or did you want the game to be more fun and laughing with/at the bride and groom kind of thing
XXX: well the games intent was to get people to participate, make a lively atmosphere
me: like a "who knows who better" or "does the bride and groom know each other better than their friends" kind of thing
XXX: but i have quite the list of intricate song list planned- so we might no need it
hmm that could be good
but id like u guys to have it planned- u know in case we decide its the right time
like right after the cake cutting if theres a moment where crowd is slightly dispersed
or something
me: well a who knows who better game is funny i am sure and would make laughs, but it is not so crowd-oriented
so not sure it would be the best to get a crowd pumped up and jumping
XXX: thats why i planned a 2nd champagne train - just in case
dont wanna bring the tone down if u know what i mean...
it works at some weddings, crowd thinks its funny but my wedding really about the party- aspect
so we will see
u can ask XXX- he will know when its best
or if needed
hes done a shit load of wedding
1) how do you propose a toast without any form of alcohol present?
2) how do you get people to have fun when there's no dance and no alcohol present?
I mean, my typical recipe to get any sort of party or celebration going is: pour people in room with approximately equal parts male and female, add alcohol, add music, mix until consistency of fun is attained.
Deebaser - Chinese wedding, but not traditional, definitely more western-oriented.