All newlyweds want to organize a bright and unique celebration, which will be remembered for its scope and interesting features. And if previously a candy bar with sweets and a sand ceremony were a novelty, now this will no longer amaze anyone! The Svadbaholik.ru portal has collected a couple of creative ideas for you on how to surprise your wedding guests so that they remember your celebration as a “wow event.”
Scratch invitations
Present your guests not with ordinary cards, but with original invitations with a scratch-off stripe, by erasing which they will find out what date the celebration is planned for. Your family and friends will definitely like this idea, because it’s original and fun!
By the way, under the scratch strip you can hide not only the wedding date, but also an instant prize for guests, like in lottery tickets. Imagine how excited your family will be to erase the strip to find out if they won any gift from you.
Fireworks
Fireworks will be a wonderful end to the wedding evening, when guests say goodbye to the newlyweds and see them off for their first wedding night. A bright, noisy, fabulous fireworks display will lift your spirits and become a symbol of a new stage in the life of two people in love.
Fireworks are bought according to your desire and financial capabilities, because the choice is huge:
- Ground-based, up to 7 meters high, are suitable for small open areas: turntables, fire fountains and rain, waterfalls, inscriptions.
- Lower level, up to 40 meters high: batteries of fireworks, pyrotechnic balloons, Roman candles.
- Medium level, up to 70 meters high, allows you to create effects and patterns, requires a lot of open space: golden willows, twinkling stars, red peonies.
- High level, up to 300 meters high, the most spectacular, bright and colorful.
The first type is most popular for weddings due to its relatively low cost and ease of launch. The latter are found at large, public events.
Original meeting of guests
The first impression of the holiday is created at the moment when guests arrive at the holiday. And your guests can remember these minutes for a long time if you organize an interesting meeting for them. Previously, mimes or living sculptures were invited to the beginning of the celebration, but this already looks too pretentious and artificial.
How can you surprise your guests at the beginning of the celebration? Book a magician for your wedding who will perform small tricks using both their props and their personal belongings. He will work with the public, approaching each guest or group of guests and involving them in interactivity, thereby preventing them from getting bored.
Flash mobs and dancing
Modern newlyweds are liberated people who live in the rhythm and constant updates of society. A flash mob is an original way to touch and surprise guests quite inexpensively.
There are several ideas you can use to implement this:
- Friends of the bride and groom prepare a dance as a surprise. Music is usually turned on immediately after the first dance of the newlyweds. And right in the midst of the guests, they begin to move to the beat.
- Waiters are specially hired dancers. At one point they begin to dance synchronously.
The groom's dance for the bride is a pleasant surprise for all guests. Especially if it is well prepared and planned. A joint composition, a dance of the bride for the groom, is a good opportunity to entertain the guests.
Unusual wedding traditions
Everyone is already pretty tired of banal traditions like bread and salt, removing the veil, etc. Change or even replace them with more interesting options, for example, planting a tree, a wine ceremony, tying a knot, etc. And your guests will watch with bated breath!
Traditional gifts
To facilitate the process of choosing prizes for participation in wedding competitions, newlyweds can purchase standard souvenirs
There is a certain list of symbolic gifts designed to emphasize the importance of the event
Most often, small notebooks, keychains, pens, rattles, lollipops and small toys are awarded for participation in competitions. Also, quite often at such events you can get a prize in the form of a magnet, candle, scented soap or figurine.
In order not to waste a lot of time and effort searching for different gifts, newlyweds can opt for bombs and bath salts. These products can have a variety of packaging and flavoring, and therefore each guest will receive an individual gift.
Coffee cups, teaspoons, waffle napkins and soft toys are often used as prizes. The main thing is that these things have a festive design. For example, a soft toy can be decorated with a veil, and a spoon can have a festive engraving.
Sweet prizes are very popular at weddings. These could be lollipops, chocolates, candies, marmalade or cookies. For beauty, they can be packed in bonbonnieres.
Food bar at a wedding
If earlier at weddings you could often see a candy bar with sweets, now more unusual options for food zones are trending, for example, a bar with fried ice cream, a lemonade bar, a cart with beer and shrimp. Which of these options should you choose? Consider the style of the holiday, for example, for a nautical wedding, a bar-boat with seafood would be a great idea, and for an eco-style celebration, a bar counter with fresh fruit and vegetables would be a great idea.
Static areas for guests
It is becoming popular to create special themed areas to entertain guests. This:
- A photo booth is a specially designed booth where you can take a photo. A photo zone created in the style of a wedding will also be a good place to spend leisure time during the event. A great idea is to prepare attributes for creating unusual photos.
- Flower area or gazebo. This idea is for weddings in the warm season. The gazebo is decorated with floral compositions. They also offer wreaths and other accessories for those who want to take photos.
- Wall of wishes. A screen or wall is decorated with photographs of the newlyweds. There is room for wishes on it.
- Thematic zone - shooting range. You can prepare prizes for the most successful shooters.
- Relaxation area - hookah bar. Many young people love to sit in the relaxing atmosphere of a hookah bar.
- Sweet zone - candy bar or chocolate fountain.
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Sketchist for a wedding
Remember how popular cartoonists were at weddings? But now you won’t surprise anyone with them! The trend is for sketch artists who draw stylish “quick” sketches – scenes from a celebration in which guests look like stars from the pages of fashionable glossy magazines.
Such modern entertainment at a wedding will be received with a bang, because guests will take home memorable mini-paintings, which may well become a decoration for the interior of their apartments.
Stars
If young people want to see real stars at their wedding who flash on TV screens, then in this case there are 2 options:
- star as presenter;
- a famous dance or vocal group, individual performer.
The host spends the entire festive evening with the newlyweds and guests; he is the lighter and the main character, of course, after the newlyweds. Therefore, some want to be sure that the evening will go off with a bang and will delight the audience. This function is performed by the star artist. Not only is the man easily recognizable, he is also a real pro, with elaborate, colorful numbers, his own group of assistants, and wonderful costumes and accessories. The star host will definitely arrange an unforgettable and most wonderful wedding evening.
TV show hosts are invited as toastmasters: Ivan Urgant, Andrey Malakhov; showmen: Timur Rodriguez, Ruslan Bely; actors: Elena Biryukova (Sasha and Masha), Stanislav Yarushin; even doubles of Putin and Medvedev.
A performance by a famous group or individual artist will be the highlight of the evening. They will sing their favorite songs only for the newlyweds and their guests, and after that they will take wonderful pictures that will preserve pleasant memories for many years.
The only negative is that many stars work only in Moscow and the immediate Moscow region. Not everyone has the opportunity to agree on a performance in a remote city, and the amount of the fee will increase significantly.
Play area with activities
Everyone is pretty tired of the banal competitions that are usually held at weddings. Instead, it is better to prepare a gaming area for guests with interesting entertainment: video games, darts, Jenga, etc.
Your family and friends will be very enthusiastic about this idea, because it is much more interesting and creative than boring competitions in the center of the hall. Moreover, you can prepare both active and board games for the wedding. It all depends on the preferences and age of the guests.
If you are thinking about how to surprise your children at your wedding, be sure to prepare a small play area for them with paper, markers and toys. Your little guests will be simply delighted, and their parents will be able to fully relax during the holiday, for which they will say a special “thank you” to you!
Show program
Show rooms will be a real boon for a wedding reception in a large room. This part of the program can permeate the entire evening, starting from the second hour of the feast. When the first toasts have been made, the dishes from the wedding menu have already been tasted, the first wave of delight after the ceremony has subsided, then it’s time for the masters of entertainment art to take to the “stage.”
Here the imagination of the organizers is limited only by the wedding budget and the capabilities of the premises. Most popular shows :
- sand or cryo;
- soap bubbles;
- laser or neon;
- illusionists;
- bartender, fire, candy show.
The most demanding audience will be surprised by circus and acrobatic acts if the holiday is held in a suitable hall
Separately, it is worth mentioning the dance numbers. Professional dancers can involve guests in their show program:
- European version - ballroom dancing (waltz, tango);
- oriental flavor - belly dance;
- classic for weddings of the century before last “gypsy”.
Non-standard cake from pizzas, sushi, etc.
Does the idea of a regular sweet wedding cake seem trivial to you? Come up with something more interesting, for example, it could be a shelf with pizzas or a cake made from rolls. The main thing is that such an unusual dessert fits into the format and style of the celebration.
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A wedding dance can be anything. Choose from your preferences what kind of music/dance you like and what you will have time to learn for the wedding. It can be a traditional waltz, gentle and touching. Maybe tango. Maybe a fiery fast dance - whatever you want.
An interesting option is to combine several at once: a traditional slow start, then the music is abruptly interrupted and replaced by a fast, comic composition, and by the end of the dance it slows down again. You can choose a dance from your favorite movie, video clip or TV show. The main thing is that it reflects your mood, interest and taste.
Funny vows at the ceremony
Everyone is accustomed to the fact that wedding vows should be touching and tender. And you can be super original and come up with original texts with humor for the ceremony, for example, about the fact that the bride will not slam the door in the car, and the groom will not throw socks around the apartment. Your guests will definitely be surprised by this turn of events and will have a good laugh at the ceremony.
Raffle
A prank at a wedding is a great way to lighten the atmosphere and make the celebration more interesting. But a good joke requires careful preliminary preparation, and should exclude jokes about religion, appearance, nationality, financial status, and the reasons for the wedding. The main thing is the effect of surprise.
- A mysterious letter that is handed to the bride or groom in the middle of the evening and asked to be read aloud. It declares his love... single life.
- A mysterious package with small gifts that, when opened, will shower the newlyweds with colorful confetti.
- Wedding vows, which are preceded by a saddened face and words that there is no strength to remain silent about this terrible secret any longer.
- The arrest of the groom in the midst of fun.
- A dummy cake that falls to the floor when taken out.
- Fake questions, when guests are asked questions at the beginning of the evening, and then they edit a funny video and show it at the end.
- A false sign on the door of the establishment stating that it is closed for technical reasons.
- Instead of a bouquet, throw a fake chicken into the crowd of unmarried brides, or the groom, instead of a garter, throws XXL size panties.
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Good humor is the key to success at a wedding!
Flash mob from newlyweds
Organize a wedding flash mob together with venue staff and contractors or close friends. It might look like this: a couple goes out to perform the first dance, and at the end contractors and waiters (friends) run up to them and begin to reproduce the same movements. Believe me, your guests will not only be very surprised, but will also be happy to support this idea and immediately join you!
The portal svadbagolik.ru has prepared for you the top 10 creative ideas for entertaining guests at a wedding. If you adopt any of them, your family and friends will long remember your celebration as an original and interesting holiday!
How to make a celebration unique and memorable?
There are many ways you can surprise your wedding guests. Surely you know: the more unusual ideas you implement, the more emotions you will evoke among those invited. However, you shouldn’t “overdo it,” otherwise the celebration may turn into a wedding of informals. This is not bad if only close friends with whom you have the same tastes and preferences are invited to the holiday, but the older generation may not understand too much creativity.
It is much better if you choose a format close to the classic one, but add a few bright accents to it. Let's find out what wedding entertainment for guests will seem unusual, but will not scare them away, and also figure out how newlyweds can play up the key moments of the celebration, making them more interesting.
Creative gifts for guests
Let's start, perhaps, with an alternative to standard bonbonnieres for guests in response to gift giving. Firstly, it is not necessary to present mini-thanks at this very moment: a memorable souvenir can be presented at the entrance to the wedding venue, as well as at the end of the evening.
Secondly, why give boxes of candy if there are many worthy replacement options? It can be:
- small plants in pots;
- commemorative coins with the wedding date and initials of the newlyweds;
- jars of spices, honey or jam, bottles of sauces, etc.
If your wedding budget allows, you can prepare some nice little things for your guests that they can use right at the wedding and then take with them. These can be soft slippers for ladies tired of heels, sunglasses for a summer celebration in nature, warm blankets for a winter or autumn wedding, umbrellas and raincoats for a celebration in inclement weather. Guests will appreciate your care!
Wedding ceremony with interesting rituals
Painting in the registry office is quick, simple and too traditional. So, if you have the opportunity to have a destination ceremony, use this opportunity to make your marriage more memorable. Organize a small show at the wedding right at the moment of registration: hold a flower, sand or wine ceremony at the wedding, tie a knot or plant a family tree. All these rituals have a deep meaning, look beautiful and are very popular in the West and in the USA.
Active rest instead of walking
Guests who want to watch the registration and have fun at the banquet are faced with a problem: what to do on a walk while the newlyweds are being photographed? Usually guests follow the bride and groom while drinking champagne - not the most fun development of events. Why not turn a walk into an active holiday for everyone present? Sleigh rides in winter or a boat trip in summer will be an excellent alternative: both guests will have fun and the photographer will take beautiful shots.
When and where to organize the shooting?
When planning your wedding celebration, allow no more than 40 minutes for a photo shoot with your guests. As a rule, this time is enough to take a photo with each of the invitees.
If you decide to take photographs with friends and relatives at the feast itself, it is recommended to take main portraits, as well as group shots, before the banquet begins. Blurred makeup and red faces from dynamic dancing will not make anyone attractive.
It is best to organize a photo session with people invited to the celebration during their gathering. In the same place you can arrange a buffet with welcome cocktails. If you are taking wedding photos with guests in the summer, then the meeting place should be set up outdoors.
Individual shots and group wedding photos will become more interesting if you supplement them with reportage shots taken throughout the feast. A professional operator will be able to preserve the atmosphere and mood of the event.
