What are they?
The main task that wedding table competitions solve is to entertain those present and prevent the banquet from turning into a banal drinking party.
Therefore, competitions should be fun and humorous: there is no place for sadness and boredom at a wedding. However, vulgarity should not be tolerated. Table wedding competitions can be divided into several large groups:
- shouting games;
- congratulation games;
- quizzes;
- lotteries;
- comic games;
- music and creative competitions.
Important! It is necessary to discuss with the newlyweds which competitions and prizes should be used and which ones should not. Not everyone will be happy about a lottery in which the winner is a roll of toilet paper or a toothbrush. If you don't know which prize to choose, use sweets (sweets or small chocolates) - they will suit almost all guests.
What is love?
- Participants: guests.
- Props: pieces of paper with pens.
Such a wedding competition at the table will fit into the format of any celebration. Guests are given pieces of paper on which they must write what love or marriage is in their opinion. The host collects the pieces of paper and reads them out loud, and the newlyweds choose the best judgment. You can even make several nominations: “The funniest judgment about love/marriage”, “The most vital”, “The most touching”, etc.
The portal www.svadbagolik.ru has collected 7 fun table competitions for you. Choose the option that your guests will like, and feel free to include it in the festive banquet scenario, then it will be fun and relaxed!
Toast games, congratulation games
Usually at the wedding table the order of toasts and congratulations to the newlyweds is established according to different principles:
- by kinship : first the closest relatives - parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters;
- by place at the table - starting with those sitting closer to the young people and further in order;
- voluntarily.
However, this order can also be established with the help of a fun game.
Unusual alphabet
In advance, small cards with the letters of the alphabet are laid out on the back of the chairs or under the plate - from A to Z (if there are more guests, you can use the letters two or three times). When the time comes for congratulations, the host suggests that the guest who has a card with the letter A be the first to congratulate the newlyweds, then B, and so on.
We wish the young
So that guests do not get tired of toasts and feasts, you can invite them to organize a collective congratulations to the newlyweds , illustrating it with gestures. The presenter announces that his words of congratulations must be accompanied by actions:
- if words about love are heard, you need to draw a heart in the air;
- if it’s about health, men show off their biceps, and women check and admire them;
- if the word “luck” is pronounced, everyone makes the “Okay!” sign;
- When it comes to happiness, guests blow a kiss to the newlyweds.
Comic games with cards for women's company
A special place in the entertainment program is given to games for the ladies present. The most popular ones are using props, such as cards. Table games of this kind are comic in nature, so you will be guaranteed a lot of smiles and fun. Choose entertainment according to your taste:
- "Creative person". This game requires cards with feminine words written on them, for example, broom, beauty, lipstick, cosmetic bag. Participants are given 4 words, a piece of paper and a pen. The ladies must compose a poem in five minutes, which must contain the words that fall out to them. Afterwards, the girls read out their creations, and the men choose who won.
- Table competition "Sale". Prepare small gifts, each one should have a specific number. The girls are presented with a bag of cards with a certain number written on them. Each guest is invited to try their luck and draw a piece of paper. The number of the drawn card corresponds to the gift that the winner receives.
- "Women's Logic". The purpose of this wedding competition is to determine who has the best logic. Participants are asked tricky questions involving non-standard situations. For example, you liked a co-worker at work, but you discover that your friend also likes him, what are your actions. Girls must come up with interesting answers. Whoever does it better will win.
For newlyweds - “Who is the boss in the house?”
While the guests are getting to know each other, it’s time for the young spouses to distribute responsibilities around the house. You can choose different options: use pre-prepared notes with comic duties, such as “brush a strand off your spouse’s forehead during a quarrel,” “sing songs in the morning on the balcony,” and others. You can invite the guests to make a list of responsibilities: let them write them down, and the host will invite the young people to take turns taking notes out of the bag.
Options for props can also be different:
- small balloons;
- paper daisy with tear-off petals;
- a bag or box where the notes rolled into a tube will be placed;
- a lotto bag, where the role of barrels will be played by containers from “Kinder surprises”: inside them there are notes with responsibilities.
For parents - “Who will be born first?”
The presenter introduces the parents of the newlyweds and talks about the difficult path they went through while getting their children on their feet. After the parents say their parting words, the presenter asks if they dream of grandchildren and offers to find out who will be born first in a young family - a boy or a girl.
Future grandmothers make up one team, future grandfathers another. Each team is given a head of cabbage. The presenter says that a coin is hidden inside each head of cabbage. If the grandmothers are the first to find her, the first-born of the young family will be a girl, if the team of grandfathers is the first child, a boy will be born.
Future grandparents, on command, “undress” the cabbage to the music. When a bare stalk remains and no one has found the coin, the presenter says: “Dear parents! You’re adults, are you really still looking for children in cabbage?”
Lotteries, quizzes
Lotteries and prize drawings are a traditional part of the wedding party. They are suitable for both adults and children . You can attach a token with a number under the seat of a chair or put it under a plate in advance, and during the feast you can hold a comic win-win lottery. You will need to think about prizes for her in advance - prepare them and small poetic descriptions.
Interesting! Another win-win option in the literal sense of the word for a table competition at a wedding party: simple comic questions and no less comic answers, and as a prize - small souvenirs, the same sweets as a gift from the newlyweds.
Finish the sentence
A popular game is when the presenter invites one person to choose a question or half a phrase at random, and his neighbor to complete it. No one knows which answer option will appear and sound, and such a quiz causes a lot of laughter.
Through the mouth of the people
The host says the beginning of a proverb about family life, the guests must finish. For each correct answer - a small prize or token. Then at the end of the game, the one who has the most tokens can be awarded the “Most Smart” medal.
A slightly modified version of the game: before the toast, guests are invited to select and name as many synonyms for the word “drink” as possible. Whoever names the most wins.
Cool questions for the groom about the bride
If at a wedding there is a competition with the theft of a bride, then to organize the ransom, you will need to know what questions you can ask the groom. You can put them just so that the wedding is fun:
- What city does your wife dream of visiting?
- What does the bride prioritize: children or a professional career?
- What did the young wife dream of when she was little?
- What size shoes will you buy for your wife?
- How tall is young?
- How long does the chosen one stand in front of the mirror?
- How many friends does the bride have?
- Why does your spouse love you?
- What flower bouquet would she prefer?
- What is the young man's hobby?
The presenter can prepare such humorous questions about the bride with answers in advance so as not to get into an unpleasant situation during the competition.
The groom answers questions about the bride at the wedding
Musical
This is one of the most popular entertainments during a wedding feast. There can be many options:
- remember and perform the song according to the first line;
- who knows more songs starting with a certain letter;
- who knows more songs in which some kind of paint is named (an excellent option for a “rainbow wedding”, and for any “color” it can be changed: for example, for red - sing songs about everything that has a red color, for blue - everything , which is associated with shades of blue, and so on);
- who knows more songs with a certain word (for example, “love” - wedding!);
- and, finally, a traditional competition similar to the television game “Guess the Melody”, when the participant needs to guess the song by 3, 4... 7 notes.
Guests like such musical games; they can be used during a pause when guests are sitting at tables, for example, while waiting for hot food. Their main advantage is that both young people and representatives of the older generation, who find it difficult to endure, for example, dance marathons, play with pleasure.
I know this song
The conditions are simple: a melody sounds, and the first guest to guess it wins a prize. As a prize, you can prepare sweets or small chocolates in advance, wrapping them in a wrapper with photographs of the newlyweds (these can be ordered at any printing house). The interesting thing about the game is that you can record not only modern hits or old songs, music from famous films, but also the sounds of nature, sounds made by animals, and advertising tracks.
Who will sing who?
This is a game for two teams - they could be, for example, guests sitting on the left side of the bride and groom and on the right. The presenter gives each team a task in turn, asking a question with a line from a song (it is better to select the musical accompaniment in advance). Participants must remember a line that could answer the question, for example:
- “Why do birch trees make so much noise in Russia?” - “Because someone loves an accordion player”;
- “Where are you, my black-eyed one, where?” - “There, beyond the horizon”;
- “Why are you indifferent to me?” - “Because, because we are pilots”;
- “Tell me, Snow Maiden, where have you been?” - “Somewhere in this world, where it’s always frosty...”
Fun wedding competitions for the bride and groom
Forecast for future life
First you need to prepare 4 glasses, into which you need to pour regular boiled water. Pour a little sugar into the first glass, add a spoonful of salt into the second, add a little lemon juice into the third, and a small amount of chloramphenicol into the fourth. The bride and groom must choose one of the glasses together.
If they choose a glass of water sweetened with sugar, their family life will be sweet and romantic.
If with medicine - bitter, and they must solve their problems, as is customary at a wedding - with kisses.
If the newlyweds chose water with salt, their life together will be salty, spicy and interesting.
With lemon juice - family life will be with sourness and zest.
Perhaps the wedding would have happened without a fight, but the newlyweds began to open the envelopes.
Wedding hide and seek competition
Children are always present at a wedding, so you can play such a game. All children must stand in a circle, with the young ones brought to the center. They are blindfolded, spun around and placed with their backs to each other. On command, the children scatter in different directions, but not very far.
You can even fence off the space with rope or chairs. The bride and groom must catch at least one child. If a boy is caught first, then their firstborn will be a boy. If it is a girl, then the girl will be born first.
Guess the name of the firstborn
For this competition you need to prepare several balloons, in which you need to put notes with the names of future children. The bride and groom are invited to choose one balloon each, pierce them and see what they chose. If the bride and groom's sense of humor allows, you can write funny names, affectionate nicknames or the names of fairy-tale characters.
Fun competition at a wedding with balloons
For this competition you also need to prepare balloons with notes. The bride and groom take turns piercing the balloons and reading the notes. Here are some examples of inscriptions on a note:
- Repair, plan, break and build - I will do it all.
- If my friends invite me, I’ll go to the restaurant.
- Sewing and knitting is my destiny.
- I was destined to run around the shops and sweep everything off the shelves from birth.
- I will drive the car.
- Reading newspapers on the sofa is lucky, I will do it every day.
- I'll have to build a dacha.
- You will do the renovations in the apartment.
- And I will iron the trousers.
- I'll chat with my neighbor.
- I'll wash the diapers.
- You will cook lunch.
- You will have to babysit the child.
At a friends wedding, I ran to catch a bouquet, then came to my senses and returned. You should have seen my husband's eyes!
Compatibility test for the groom
The husband is obliged to prove that he is suitable for his beloved much more than any other man on earth. On the table, a photo of the young wife is placed in the center, and several photographs with other men, including a photo of the husband, are laid out face down in a circle.
The newlywed takes the photographs one by one, turns them over and places them next to the photograph of his wife.
If the elongated photo is not his, he must come up with three reasons why this man is not suitable for the bride. Next, the groom takes the photo again. When a guy comes across his photo, he must provide irrefutable evidence of why he is the perfect match for the bride.
Competition for the bride: Guess your loved one by voice
For the competition you will need a bride and a helium balloon. The bride is blindfolded or turns her back to the guests. After this, men are called out of the hall one by one, saying three simple words “I love you”, changing their own voices with the help of helium. Among the men summoned there should, of course, be the groom. The bride's task is to recognize the groom's voice.
For guests
To cheer up those present at the wedding and give them a break from food and alcohol, you can offer the following competitions for guests:
Greedy
Everyone sitting at the table can participate in the competition. The prize is placed in the middle of the table, and the presenter announces that it can be claimed on the count of 3. But the trick is that the count is not in order, but randomly: 1, 2, 50, 34, etc. The prize will go to the one who is attentive.
Why not Pushkin?
The host offers the guests a few words from which they need to make a toast in poetic form. Rhyme is required. Another version of the competition: guests are given a line of a romantic poem. You need to recite your version of the continuation.
My light, mirror
The host gives any of the guests a small mirror. While looking at it, the participant in the game must say at least a dozen compliments to himself, and at this time the rest of the guests must knock him down or try to make him laugh. It is important not to smile or lose your temper, then the guest gets a prize.
Useful video
You can watch one of the options for the Question and Answer competition in the video:
The more absurd the questions, the more laughter they will cause. Come up with your own list of questions and answers that would reflect the qualities, professions, hobbies of your guests or the newlyweds themselves.
The question and answer game is very popular not only at weddings, but also at other holidays. It refers to table competitions, in which you can participate without leaving the table. “Question and answer” will save the evening at a time when guests are already tired of dancing, playing, and just want to sit at the tables and enjoy the atmosphere.
For a small company
For a small company or family celebration, you can choose games that do not require many participants.
For example, you can pass the baton of toasts and congratulations using a regular (or unusual) alarm clock. The presenter sets a timer on it. Guests pass the alarm clock from hand to hand. In whose hands it rings, give a toast and congratulate the newlyweds.
Please note: many music competitions also do not require a large number of participants (this does not apply to team competitions, where, on the contrary, as many guests as possible are welcome).
Balloon competitions
At a wedding celebration where a large number of guests are not planned, competitions and games with balloons are often held:
- who can inflate the balloon faster?
- lottery: each ball contains a task. The guest, approached by the host, must choose a ball, burst it and complete the task;
- the balloons may not contain tasks, but wishes that guests have written in advance on small pieces of paper. Even before the wedding ceremony began, the hosts placed them in balloons, and the balloons were attached to the backs of the guests’ chairs.
Chipmunk Speaker
The presenter gives the participant a card with a written word, the player must put as many small candies or nuts on his cheek as possible and say the word or phrase written on the card. The rest of the guests must guess. So that all the guests feel not “bitter”, but “sweet”, let everyone be “chipmunks”.
Kiss and bite
When the company has become so cheerful that friendly kisses with a neighbor will not cause jealousy in your spouse, you can hold “kissing competitions.” The following tasks can be included in the game “forfeits”:
- The host asks the guest to name the place in the neighbor’s house that he likes (for example, his hairstyle) and the place that he doesn’t like – for example, the earrings in his ears. After this, the guest is invited to kiss the neighbor in the place he liked and bite in the place he doesn’t like;
- A variation of the game is to pass a small soft toy around in a circle. When the music stops, the host invites the guest, who is holding the toy, to kiss it in the place he likes. After this, it is proposed to kiss the neighbor in the same place.
Options for competitions with tongue twisters
There are a huge number of tongue twister competitions that are used to entertain guests at a wedding. We invite you to consider the ones that are well-known and loved by everyone.
"Who's the spy?"
We all know that there will be at least one person at a wedding who practically does not drink alcohol. This is what we need to find. How? Of course, with the help of tongue twisters!
The competition is very simple, but interesting. The presenter selects funny tongue twisters. For example:
- “I drive through potholes, I can’t get out of potholes”;
- “To speak all the tongue twisters, not to speak them out, not to pronounce them, not to over-speak them.”
You can use any , not necessarily thematic, tongue twisters about a wedding as a basis. We recommend choosing a simpler option first to whet the interest and excitement of the participants. From the second or third phrase, move on to something very complex.
So: guests are divided into 2 teams and compete with each other in pronunciation. Of course, the one who manages the phrase best “wins.” Here he is - a spy!
The spy identified by the host must say a toast to the young people and empty the glass. The remaining participants receive incentive prizes.
"Casting"
The presenters conduct a kind of casting for the radio station. The main criterion is the employee’s clear diction. Of course, it is checked using tongue twisters.
5 girls take part in the competition. Each one says: “Oh, there’s a hill with sacks near the pit, I’ll go out onto the hill - I’ll straighten the sack, if you straighten the sack, you’ll take the sack,” while holding the candy in her teeth. Speed does not matter, the main thing is clear pronunciation .
The winner is the one who pronounced the sentence as clearly as possible.
"Duel"
The meaning of a verbal duel is quite simple. The presenter invites the participants to split into two teams, after which each of them receives cards with tongue twisters.
First, a member of one team clearly, loudly and expressively reads out what is written on his card. An opponent from the other team repeats the same quickly, without blurting out words or skipping them. Then the sides change.
Those who make the fewest mistakes win.
"Sign language interpreter"
The presenter also divides the participants into two teams, each of which is given a set of tongue twisters.
The task of the first team is to reproduce the tongue twister as accurately as possible in sign language. The second is to guess and repeat it quickly, clearly, without errors. Participants are ultimately awarded two prizes - for the best visualization of the phrase and for the most guessed tasks.
In this competition, it is better to select popular and funny tongue twisters. This will make the competition easier and more fun for the guests.
Total
When choosing competitions for your wedding feast, consider the audience. Talk to the newlyweds in advance: how many young people will be among the guests and how many elderly people. Games should be chosen so that all guests, regardless of age and income, do not get bored. Alternate active games with calm competitions and do not forget that guests want to do more than just play. Give them time to eat, dance and just chat with each other and with the young people.
And most importantly, remember: both the young people and their guests came to relax. There should not be too many competitions - do not overload the script, distributing them evenly throughout the celebration. If the guests have fun and interest, everyone will remember the wedding for a long time as a fun and joyful pastime.
