More and more young people are striving to make their celebration not only beautiful, but also original, so that it is remembered for a long time. And a quest can be a great entertainment at a wedding. This is a fun intellectual game that will help make your holiday unusual and interesting. A wedding quest is a great way to have fun and excite your guests.
The Svadebka.ws portal will tell you how to choose a quest script, when it is best to hold it for a wedding, and what is necessary for this. We will also offer you an example of a scenario that you can use as a basis for your celebration.
How to write a quest script for a wedding?
If you are preparing a wedding quest, the script should be drawn up taking into account many nuances:
- Who is it intended for? Traditionally, either the guests or the groom participate in the game. It is unlikely that the bride will be pleased to run back and forth with a map in a long dress and heels in search of the next clue.
- If this is a wedding quest for guests, you should pay attention to their number, gender, age and status.
- During the game, unforeseen situations may arise that need to be thought through in advance and ways of solving them must be thought through.
- We determine the time for the quest. At a wedding, the game can take place during the ransom, at a banquet in the form of bride kidnapping, during the wedding of the newlyweds or a photo shoot so that the guests do not get bored. Also, in addition to fresh competitions, you can conduct a quest at the wedding.
An original idea for a wedding walk: a quest for guests
If you decide to arrange an exciting quest during your wedding walk, then you will need to take into account the following points:
- Please note that the duration of the game is usually at least three hours. During this period, you can complete from 6 to 9 tasks. When choosing riddles, it is best to be guided by the physical capabilities, erudition and sense of humor of each guest.
- Decide in advance on the geography of the quest. Entertainment can be arranged within one area or you can come up with tasks throughout the city or even the suburbs. If guests will need to travel long distances, then you must additionally worry about their transportation. If you wish, you can make the process of moving a separate entertainment if you use not ordinary vehicles, but a hot air balloon, bicycles or jet skis.
- As a starting point, you can choose any option: a cafe or restaurant, a wedding dress salon, a sales tent or a gas station. You can first of all be guided by the selected places for a wedding photo shoot. While you are taking pictures, guests will be divided into teams, receive the first clue, the driver's number and begin to play. Of course, you should negotiate with the owner of the establishment in advance.
- The script should be simple and definitely interesting. If there are city guests among the invitees, then you can include a list of attractions in the plot of the game.
When creating a quest script, we recommend that you pay attention to this classic option:
- 1. As the first goal, guests will need to find the location shown in the pictures. After they check the map, they will need to call the driver. Please note that he will not go anywhere until the participants, using clues, name the exact place.
- 2. During transportation, guests can be occupied with writing wishes for the newlyweds.
- 3. After the participants arrive at the first point, the host will meet them and tell them that the newlyweds kissed for the first time here. In honor of such an event, you can organize a flash mob or a kissing competition right at this place.
- 4. Based on the results of the competition, the winners will receive a hint and will be able to go to the second point, for which they can choose the place where the bride and groom, for example, met. Here, participants in the entertainment will also have to find a clue. It is recommended to have a small buffet in this part so that the guests can have a little snack and relax.
- 5. If desired, the buffet can be made part of the quest. For example, in the process of devouring dessert, one of the guests will discover a clue. Such unexpected moments will make the game especially bright and exciting.
In general, there are many options for interesting tasks and riddles that are perfect for an quest. You can come up with the plot of the entertainment yourself, but in any case you need to appoint a person who will be the host for each team of guests.
It is very important to calculate the time correctly. Ideally, the quest should end with the newlyweds' photo session. Then you can go celebrate the wedding banquet with your satisfied guests.
Quests for the bride and groom: features of implementation
Since the day of celebration is very stressful for young people, completing a quest for them can cause additional excitement. However, it is still possible to organize a quest for the groom instead of a ransom. At the wedding itself, when the newlyweds have a little drink and relax, you can organize a game in which the guests will participate. In addition, a quest for the groom to find the missing bride will be very useful.
As we have already said, at a celebration the future wife rarely participates in competitions and quests. But you shouldn’t deprive the bride of such pleasure: the game can be played at a bachelorette party! In this case, her friends should take care of the organization and preparation of the quest.
For guests
Entertaining guests is difficult. Just look, someone will yawn or get bored. And the ordinary toastmaster, although he offers scenarios with competitions, has not surprised anyone for a long time. What can you come up with in this case? A quest for guests can spice up your wedding day and add a unique touch of originality to it. You can come up with a plot for it yourself, or you can give a “tip” to the organizers. There are also special people and organizations who develop plots for holiday quests and are responsible for paraphernalia and immersion in the quest atmosphere.
It can be either a classic competitive style or a thematic one, with its own story and original puzzles.
Quest quiz
One of the most popular types of quests at weddings. They are used absolutely everywhere - from bride price to those moments when guests just need something to do. For example, while a photo shoot of the bride and groom is going on.
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These can be either ordinary questions or questions with a twist and a twist, or interesting riddles. And, of course, necessarily connected with the newlyweds, their characters, habits, dreams and desires. Everything is presented in a funny, comic form, and as an incentive they often give out some interesting prizes: it’s both pleasant and something to remember.
If you want to do something thematic and more or less special, look at the formats of such programs as “Field of Miracles”, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” or something like that. Adapted for a wedding, they will look much more original than the usual quick polls “Who knows the bride better.”
Another interesting option is the quest quiz “Chest of Secrets”. Even if the wedding is not themed, find a chest or a beautiful bag, filling it with items that are important to the newlyweds or with something related to the concepts of happiness and well-being. Let the guests, taking turns taking them out, guess why these things might be useful to the young people or somehow express wishes to them with their help.
Quest investigation
But here there is truly room for your imagination to run wild. Come up with a mind-blowing story in the spirit of detective novels - let the groom and his guests not ransom the bride, but investigate her disappearance. Or invite guests to find lost wedding rings. A variety of storylines are welcome.
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The idea of using a card is very popular and relevant among young people. A classic search for treasures or elements of wedding paraphernalia. Having received the map at the beginning of the holiday, guests and newlyweds must follow it, participating in various competitions, solving puzzles and solving “problems” that prevent the bride and groom from getting married. Moreover, this can be either a short adventure-entertainment or a voluminous quest on which the entire wedding scenario is based.
Specialists in holiday quests often agree to conduct professional and full-fledged investigation quests with stories in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes at a wedding.
One of the scenarios:
- the man who stole the rings is killed by the guest. All guests are divided into teams of “suspects”, after which each of them looks for evidence and tries to find out who committed the crime and where. Using logic and collecting clues, guests will have to investigate, finding the culprit and the lost wedding rings.
Finally, I would like to note the options for costume quests and competitions. Nowadays, not a single feast is complete without fun in wigs and false beards - the best thing to cheer up the guests when it has become boring to simply eat, drink and dance, and all the main toasts have already been read out.
Since the main goal of such competitions is not so much to “break the heads of the guests with riddles”, but to have fun and make them laugh heartily, the main emphasis is on the comical nature of the costumes and role-playing situations. As for the plot, it is limited only by the imagination of the organizer and the newlyweds. If a themed wedding was chosen in any particular style, competitions and quests should correspond to it, but if it’s an ordinary one: anything from sumo fights and gypsy singers to congratulations to the newlyweds on behalf of popular celebrities.
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How are quests conducted for guests?
Since this is an intellectual game, it is better to provide for it in a place in the program when the invitees have not yet had time to drink a lot. For example, after the ceremony, while the newlyweds are participating in a photo shoot or getting married. A quest for guests, held before the wedding banquet, will help them have fun and will be an excellent alternative to aimlessly waiting or following the newlyweds in the local park.
One of the close friends of the newlyweds should be responsible for organizing and running the game. He monitors the correctness of tasks. A wedding quest for guests, the scenario of which should not be particularly complex, is usually short-lived. It is better to organize it so that the time of the event at least approximately coincides with the period of absence of the newlyweds, so that they do not have to wait for the guests, and so that the invitees do not finish too early and do not get bored.
Already for the wedding itself, you can come up with a more complex quest scenario for the guests, fortunately there is enough time. But you should choose simpler tasks, otherwise tipsy guests simply won’t complete the game.
By the way, what should you do if, during a quest-style ransom or during a game with guests, someone cannot solve the problem and pass the current stage? It is necessary to come up with a “payment for tips” option in advance. You shouldn’t demand real money, but you can come up with an interesting “punishment”. Let the prisoner dance or sing, recite a poem or do something else funny that will amuse the rest of the guests.
Props for the quest
If this is a themed game, you need to prepare special props for the wedding quest. And this nuance is also very important when selecting a script. For example, if evil pirates prevent the groom from going to the bride price, you will have to at least find costumes for them for the quest. But not in every city you can easily find themed outfits without going broke, so first assess your capabilities and then draw up a scenario.
So what props might we need? For a standard game you usually need:
- Themed costumes, which we have already talked about.
- Maps of the area where the game will take place.
- Paper for notes with tips, creating a hand-drawn map with a route.
- Cardboard for signs.
- Direct tasks, puzzles, logic problems, puzzles. They can either be written or drawn on paper, or they can be presented in the form of toys. They can be easily found in any children's department. Believe me, some puzzles for children 12 years old are quite difficult for adults to solve.
- Additional props, depending on the quest scenario. For example, if the task is timed, it could be an hourglass. If the task is to navigate the terrain, you need a compass.
- Incentives for participants. Usually this is a small buffet or sweet gifts, but you can also buy just small souvenirs, like for regular competitions.
Don't forget about the photographer and videographer. Of course, if they are busy on a walk with the newlyweds, it is enough to simply ask the guests not participating in the quest to film this action with a phone camera. The newlyweds and other invitees will then be very interested to see these photos and videos.
How it all began
I was a witness at a wedding three times, and despite all the respect for my friends, another bride price at the entrance was already starting to irritate me.
A little later, my friend Tanya needed to come up with “something unusual and interesting” for her friend’s wedding, and since at that time I was actively involved in opening quest rooms in Moscow, the question justifiably came to me: “You create quests and cool tasks, Can you help me come up with a ransom?” With this request, the idea of creating such a quest was born, into which we put our whole hearts.
