A wedding without competitions and entertainment is like a joke without humor. It is the entertaining moments that create the overall atmosphere of fun and real celebration. Well-chosen competitions will not make you blush the next day, but on the contrary, they will give you wonderful memories of one of the best weddings in your life.
Tip: all game moments must be photographed! After each competition - a group photo with the bride and groom.
For convenience, we have divided 13 ideas into groups.
Competitions for newlyweds
Beautiful life
At the beginning of the competition, the presenter asks those gathered what material values they can wish for the young people. Someone will definitely name: house, car, yacht, dacha, money. Those who guess one of these words must raise their hand.
At the end of the survey, those who guessed correctly and the newlyweds are invited to the center of the hall. Each participant must show what he wished. The presenter asks first to demonstrate how they will show it and to direct the process. Each participant has their own short excerpt from the song. During the action, the young people take pictures with the competition participants.
- House. The participant must stand behind the young people and make a roof over their heads with their hands. Music track: “Under the roof of your house” by Yu. Antonov.
- Car. The participant sits on a chair and pretends to be a driver. Driver gloves and a helmet can be used as props. Music track: "Crazy Frog".
- Yacht. The participant portrays the captain of the ship, standing at the helm. You can use a smoking pipe and a captain's cap. Music track: “Yacht, sail” by V. Strykalo.
- Country house. You need to depict something dacha - digging a vegetable garden, for example. Props - a children's shovel or rake, gloves, sunglasses and a hat. Music track: “What a wonderful day, I’m not too lazy to work...” from m/f.
- Money. The participant is given a wad of “money”. He can scatter it over the heads of the young, making it “rain money.” Music track: “Money, money, money” gr. ABBA.
At the end of the competition, you need to take a group posed photo with the track “We wish you happiness.”
School of Etiquette
The presenter explains that there are different situations in life. Conflicts arise in which it is important to find a compromise. The main thing is not to stoop to throwing hurtful words in the heat of the moment, which you may later regret.
Newlyweds are invited to undergo a crash course in etiquette. And, if there is a bad word on the tip of your tongue, replace it with the name of the flower. To do this, young people, with the help of tips from guests, write 5 names of flowers on a piece of whatman paper. The groom – with feminine names, the wife – with masculine names.
Next, the presenter reads out conflict situations for each of the newlyweds and writes down the answers. Young people must choose from five flower options the one they will use in a similar situation.
For the bride
Situation | What can you call your husband? |
1. | My husband was late at work. |
2. | The husband does not want to go to visit his mother-in-law. |
3. | My husband accidentally broke his favorite set. |
4. | My husband forgot about an important date. |
5. | The husband does not want to agree on one important issue. |
For the groom
Situation | What can you call your wife? |
1. | My wife was late from the bachelorette party. |
2. | My wife doesn’t want to let me go fishing or go somewhere else with friends. |
3. | My wife spent the money she had saved for a car and bought a fur coat. |
4. | Your wife accidentally started talking on the phone and burned a burn through your favorite shirt with an iron. |
5. | Your wife has tidied up your desk and now you can't find anything. |
For bridesmaids and groomsmen
At every wedding, unmarried girls catch the bride's wedding bouquet, and unmarried guys catch her garter. These ordinary moments can be made more fun and bright with the help of pranks.
Preparing to throw the bouquet, the bride quietly picks up any object, for example, a soft toy, a pillow, a rubber dummy of a kritsa, and throws it to her bridesmaids.
When the laughter subsides, you need to throw a real bouquet. By the way, in order to satisfy all the girls, you can make a bouquet so that it can be easily untied and divided into individual flowers.
You can play even more fun on the groom's friends. When the groom removes the garter from the bride's leg, he must quietly remove the women's panties of the maximum size from the sleeve.
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Naturally, the bride should be warned about this in advance; it will be better if she plays along with the groom.
Competitions for parents
Anecdote from life
Ask parents to tell one by one the two funniest incidents in the lives of their children. The winner is determined by applause, but in the end, friendship will win, of course. At the end of the competition, you can give each couple a notebook and pen to record the future “exploits” of their common grandchildren.
Guess
Parents from both sides are called. On a projector screen or on a large plasma screen, group photos of the bride and groom are shown one by one: kindergarten, school, graduation, group at the institute. The bride's parents find the groom, the groom's parents find the bride.
Props: stopwatch. But more for show. One big family must win.
Competition - Padishah
Two men (they will be padishahs) and all willing women participate in the competition. The ladies are divided equally into 2 groups and stand separately in front of the starting line. At a certain distance from the start, the place is divided into 2 parts - these will be harems. The task of each padishah is to carry his women into the harem in his arms or on his shoulder. How exactly to transport them is up to the padishahs to decide. At the signal, the men begin to carry the women as quickly as possible. If your health allows, you can take two at a time. However, you shouldn't stress too much. During the competition, girls should not experience discomfort, so they must be carried with care. The fastest and strongest padishah wins. You can change the rules of the competition and set the condition so that the one who brings more women into his harem wins. This will add dynamics and fun.
Competitions for witnesses
Telepaths
The presenter asks the young people how well they know their witnesses: how long they have been friends with each other, whether they know their innermost secrets, whether they can understand without words. Then he announces to those gathered that the witnesses, it turns out, are telepaths. And he suggests checking it out.
The competition is held on the principle of the game “Crocodile”. Each witness is given a sheet with 7 actions that every man (for a witness) or woman (for a witness) must be able to do.
The principle of the game: without words or pointing at objects, show the action so that the team guesses correctly. The opponents are silent at this time. The witness team is the bride and all the women. The witness team is the groom and all the men.
Tasks for the witness:
- hammer a nail;
- to plant a tree;
- drink beer;
- to play football;
- build a house;
- control yourself;
- Earn Money.
Tasks for the witness:
- bake pancakes;
- make eyes (flirt);
- walk in heels;
- make a scandal;
- bear a child;
- do makeup;
- wash the floors.
Sprinters
To a cheerful tune, each of the witnesses must choose one person. They, in turn, must bring one more. And so on until there are 7 people in the team. The quantity may vary depending on activity and the number of guests.
Each team must come up with a name for itself. Commanders are witnesses. They are given a list of tasks. The winner is the one who completes the task faster.
List:
- Bring a person whose first or last name begins with the letter “A”.
- Find and bring an object whose color is the same as the scallop of this year's symbol.
- Find something round.
- Bring something starting with the letter "S".
- Bring an unmarried girl.
- Bring a married guy.
- Bring a glass of colorless liquid.
At the end, you can ask both teams to make an artistic composition from the collected material and give it a name. An unmarried girl can be made into a model for a composition.
Props – 2 trays for teams.
All presented competitions are selected in such a way that they can be held without a presenter. A little imagination, a creative approach to playing out situations, witty comments - and the wedding was a great success! Have a bright and wonderful celebration!
And what prizes can be given for winning wedding competitions - see our special selection
Competition - Curare
Competition for dance lovers. It involves 2 guys from the groom’s side and 2 girls from the bride’s side. They swear to the leader to dance, no matter what. Happy music starts. The dancers move to the beat. And then the presenter announces that the launched poisonous arrows hit their legs, and they were paralyzed. Participants are now unable to move their legs. They must move other parts of their body. The music changes, it becomes more rhythmic. The presenter announces that the thighs of the dancers have also suffered from the rising curare poison, and so on higher and higher until only the head remains. Whoever forgets and moves the paralyzed parts of the body is eliminated from the competition. The most attentive and artistic participant wins.
Competition "Happy Road"
This is a very popular competition that is held at wedding events around the globe. Those who want to take part in it are divided into 2 equal teams, after which they build the so-called “Happy Road”.
To do this, you will have to take off your clothes (if you want, you can undress down to your underwear). What are the clothes for? In order to connect a kind of part of the road from it. Simply put, each team ties together all the clothes they have removed, and the team with the longest road wins.
It’s not that difficult to organize funny wedding competitions like this without a toastmaster, because the main thing is what? The main desire!
Wedding competition "Colors"
This is an equally popular competition, for which all participants must stand in a beautiful circle. The presenter, who can be anyone, says: “Touch green. One two Three!"
During these three seconds, players must touch something of that exact color. Anyone who does not have time is eliminated from the competition, the presenter continues to say the same thing (constantly changing color) until the winner is determined.
Such competitions are most often held outdoors in warm weather, when a wedding is celebrated on a beach, lake, river or forest. Competitions for funny outdoor weddings have always been popular, which, in fact, has not changed to this day.
Competition "Living Corridor"
To conduct this competition you will only need 2 small candles.
Funny wedding competitions at home have become increasingly popular lately. This option is one of those, so there is a limit on the number of guests - no more than 20 people.
Guests are divided into two equal teams and line up in three-meter lines opposite each other, thereby forming a living corridor. The newlyweds must light a candle and carefully walk along this corridor.
Guests must blow on the candles, but it is prohibited to help themselves with any parts of the body.
Live music
Live music is an excellent addition to both an elegant wedding evening with a well-thought-out program and a cozy dinner for those closest to you. For live music, you can choose any format - from a string quartet to a modern group.
It is important that the style of music fully matches the format of the banquet. Live music can accompany guests throughout the evening: from the welcome buffet and ceremony to separate blocks during the wedding reception.
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Competition "What's missing here"?
Those who know the newlyweds better take part in this entertainment. 2 teams are selected and given a rather simple task: from the list of similar concepts or phrases, remove the one that, in their opinion, will be superfluous .
Examples of questions about newlyweds:
- Rolls, ice cream, crayfish. The correct answer is crayfish. The bride just doesn't eat them.
- Economist, manager, Minister of Trade. The correct answer is the Minister of Trade, because the bride works as an economist, and the groom works as a manager.
- Valery Anyutin, Georgy Erokhin, Andrey Ilyin. The correct answer is Valery Anyutin, because the groom's name is Valery, and the bride's name is Anna.
- September, June, February, November. You need to leave the month in which the young people met.
- Sea, mountains, sights. You should leave the answer that corresponds to the bride’s preferences.
You can continue ad infinitum. The main thing in this competition for the organizer is to show imagination and have a good knowledge of the preferences and lifestyle of the newlyweds
Interview and video greeting
If videographers are expected to be present at the wedding, then guests can be entertained with a short interview. Let them talk about where they met the newlyweds and how they plan to surprise them in the evening. Short congratulations will be especially touching - small passages lasting 20-30 seconds will remember this wonderful day and all the guests.
If there is no videographer, you can leave a special camera for recording and instructions for guests in the photo zone. This camera will definitely be popular, and you will be very pleased to watch the video later!
Competition at the table
Now we will look at the most popular competition that can be held right at the wedding table.
Before guests arrive, you need to place cards with different letters under each cutlery. When everyone has already gathered at the table and drank a little, you can hold this competition. One of the newlyweds' relatives or parents (this is not so important) stands up and says that everyone has a card with one or another letter hidden under their cutlery. Each of the guests must take out a card and come up with some wish for the heroes of the occasion, starting with the letter shown on the card.
If guests are sitting not at one table, but at several, you can buy several large hearts, cut them into medium pieces and write a word on each piece. When the guests at the table gather their hearts, a wish will form before their eyes, which they will have to read out. The team that does it the fastest will win. Competitions at a wedding must be funny for the guests and the newlyweds themselves, otherwise the holiday will turn out boring and tedious.
Competition "Who is faster?"
This is not a new game, which is often played at wedding parties.
To conduct such a competition, we will need two ordinary chairs, which will need to be placed opposite each other at a distance of 2 meters. Such competitions at weddings for guests are funny and always interesting; be sure to include this game in the event scenario.
Having placed the chairs with their backs facing each other at a distance of 2 meters, under them you need to stretch a not very long rope, the ends of which should be between the legs of the players sitting on the chair.
Right in the center of the rope you need to tie a scarlet bag with some goodies, suitable: nuts, cookies, candies, seeds and the like. Immediately after the command “Start!” players must quickly stand up, make 5 circles around the chairs and sit back down in their chair. Sitting on a chair, the hero must grab the rope and pull the prize on it towards him as quickly as possible. There are two players, but one winner. The winner will receive the very bag that he was able to get.
The same kind of funny competitions at weddings are something that is definitely missing at some similar events.
Competition "Wild Zoo"
All participants sit in a small circle. Everyone independently chooses the name of a particular animal. Participants play according to the following plan: someone names themselves and another person’s animal. For example: tiger - lion, lion - bear, bear - hedgehog, and so on. If, for example, the bear accidentally forgot, he carefully removes the special phantom from himself, and in order to return to the game, he will have to fulfill a certain wish.
This game is very funny and fun, especially in those situations where someone chooses a very difficult animal. Wedding competitions for guests are funny and very interesting.