Wedding competitions for newlyweds are small tests to prepare for their future life together. With their help, you can check your knowledge about each other, as well as make sure of your common plans for the future. Wedding competitions should be light, relaxed, fun and create a good mood for both participants and spectators. The “Distribution of Responsibilities” competition at a wedding meets all these criteria.
Essence and props
The main idea of this competition is to distribute responsibilities within a young family, so that it is fun and interesting for both the newlyweds and guests. There are several options for carrying it out. Depending on which option the presenter offers, the newlyweds either determine their responsibilities in the family themselves, or chance does it for them.
The competition will fit perfectly into the entertainment program for a small wedding.
To conduct this you may need one or another props. You will also have to prepare a text for the presenter and select music. Important! You should not completely rely on the tastes of the host or DJ in choosing wedding music, as their preferences may not coincide with yours.
Props for the competition “Distribution of family responsibilities”:
- balls with pieces of paper on which responsibilities are written, and needles;
- objects symbolizing some kind of duty (for example, a frying pan or a hammer), and a rope;
- cards with text, tray or jar;
- homemade chamomile;
- spinning top with an arrow, envelopes with questions.
Preparing the groom's appearance
The groom's appearance on the wedding day should be neat and tidy; not only the bride is preparing to be beautiful. It is enough to take an integrated approach and carry out a number of regular procedures. After all, there will be a professional photographer at the wedding who will capture the best happy moments.
Facial skin care
To keep your skin in good condition, you need to wash your face every day with cool water using foam or gel wash. To exfoliate, you should use a facial scrub once a week.
The skin also needs to be nourished from the inside; for this, you need to drink about 6-8 glasses of clean water every day. This will keep your skin hydrated.
For skin care you should use creams, the type of cream should be chosen based on the time of year, for example, in winter the skin is drier and flaky, and in summer it can be prone to oily sheen.
As for the beard and mustache, it’s up to you to decide; if you usually wear them, then it’s enough for them to be neat and well-groomed and of the right length. Perhaps they give you a certain charm. Tidy up your eyebrows if they are too overgrown.
Preparing the groom's haircut for the wedding
You should get your hair cut at least two weeks in advance, no closer to the wedding date. After all, the haircut may turn out to be too short or not as successful as usual. And it will take time to correct the situation or just let the hair grow a little.
The issue of manicure and pedicure is very individual; not all men resort to such procedures, considering them feminine. If your nails have a neat and natural appearance, then you can easily do without such procedures.
Pay attention to the condition of your teeth when preparing for your wedding. Especially if you smoke or drink a lot of coffee, then in addition to the whitening paste, visit the dentist for teeth cleaning or whitening procedures.
On your wedding day, be sure to use perfume and eau de toilette. You can use your favorite scent or choose a new pleasant scent for such an event.
Ideas
You can distribute the following responsibilities of young people in the competition:
- provide for family;
- to take out the trash;
- rest;
- iron clothes;
- do makeovers;
- change children's diapers;
- lift someone else's spirits;
- paint your nails;
- have a romantic dinner;
- call your parents to find out how they are doing;
- let go for walks with friends;
- be responsible for the family budget;
- delight your spouse with pleasant surprises;
- support your spouse;
- be in love;
- value;
- give gifts;
- carry in your arms.
Competition - Super Wife
To conduct the competition you will need a table, a doll, a bottle of beer, an opener, a glass, an inflated balloon, a broom, a chair, ingredients for a simple salad (for example, tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, chopped and laid out on plates, as well as sunflower oil and a salt shaker), spoon and salad bowl. In this competition, the bride must show what kind of wife and mistress she will be. The girl picks up the doll. You can’t put her on the table - she will be conditionally her child. In 1 minute, the bride must drive the ball under a chair standing at a distance with a broom, fold the salad, open and pour beer into a glass and serve it all to her father-in-law. At this time, the mother-in-law can give advice or comment on the work of the young housewife. If the girl does not think of taking the salt shaker from the table and salting the salad, she receives a pack of salt as a gift. If she does everything, the mother-in-law must admit that the bride will be a super wife.
Scripts for young people
Surprise inside
This scenario uses balloons. To carry out it is necessary:
- Prepare notes in advance on which responsibilities are written:
- put one note in each ball;
- inflate the balloons.
Important! Family responsibilities in this scenario are distributed by chance.
The newlyweds take turns choosing one of the balloons, popping it and reading out the dropped note.
Before reading the note, you can say:
- Darling! I'm ready for you...
- My only one! For the sake of your smile, I agree...
- My only one! I love you so much that I'm ready...
- My dear! No matter what, I'm ready...
For "The Surprise Inside" you need the following props:
- balloons;
- notes;
- needles.
Association
This version of the competition involves the use of things and objects that symbolize one or another duty.
For example:
- frying pan - who cooks the food;
- iron - who irons things;
- children's book - who raises children;
- skewer - who cooks kebabs;
- garbage bag - who gets the privilege of throwing out garbage;
- a spool of thread - who will have to sew up socks;
- mop - who cleans the house;
- diaper - who changes children's diapers;
- plate - who washes the dishes;
- car keys - who controls the car;
- travel magazine – who plans and chooses places to travel;
- knitting needles - who knits socks.
Advice! To carry out it is necessary to select items in advance (in approximately equal quantities for the bride and groom) and hang them on a rope.
The newlyweds are blindfolded and brought into the hall with a rope with objects previously hung on it. The bride and groom cut off half of the items that hang on the rope. After this, their eyes are untied, and a cheerful distribution of responsibilities begins - everyone puts on their shoulders what the things from the pile are associated with.
Props:
- objects;
- rope;
- 2 scissors;
- 2 scarves for blindfolding.
I will
This version of the competition is the simplest. Its preparation requires a minimum of time and materials. All you need is:
- write on paper various actions and activities that most people do in everyday life;
- fold the pieces of paper so that what is written is not visible;
- place them on a tray or put them in a beautiful jar.
The bride and groom take turns taking out folded pieces of paper, unfolding them and reading what is written on them. Every time before reading the content they must say: “I will...”.
For example, “I will...”:
- ...cook soups;
- …repair the car;
- …taking out the trash;
- ...put the children to bed;
- ...laugh at your jokes;
- ...bring breakfast in bed;
- ...to treat you when you are sick;
- ...make you smile;
- ...give you a massage;
- ...kiss you in the morning.
Props:
- pieces of paper with responsibilities;
- tray or jar.
Who will do what?
It is necessary to prepare envelopes in advance with questions that can be of a different nature and belong to certain areas of knowledge. It is worth choosing questions from the school curriculum so that the competition does not tire the guests.
Envelopes are laid out in a circle on the table, and in the center is a spinning top with an arrow. The host names some duty and the newlyweds spin the spinning top. She then stops and points to the envelope with the question. The presenter reads out the question, and the responsibility that the presenter named goes to the one who was the first to answer the question.
For this option you need:
- spinning top with arrow;
- envelopes with questions.
Yours/mine/ours
The competition will show whether the young people discussed their future life and were able to agree on who will do certain household chores. The newlyweds independently determine what responsibilities:
- will be performed by everyone;
- what the spouse will do;
- and what they will do together.
Advice! A list of questions that the presenter will ask must be prepared in advance.
The host calls the newlyweds forward. He places two chairs with their backs facing each other and invites the young people to sit down and take off their shoes. After this, the groom must give the bride one of his shoes, and the bride must give the groom one of her shoes. The newlyweds sit with their backs to each other so as not to see their spouse’s answers (it will be more fun this way).
After exchanging shoes, the host asks questions beginning with the words “Who will be in your house”:
- ...cook pancakes;
- ...waking up at night when the child cries;
- ...buy sweets for home;
- ...make jokes wittier;
- ...laugh louder at your own jokes;
- …solve problems;
- ...wash socks;
- ...bargain on the market;
- ...ask parents for money;
- …tolerate your spouse’s antics;
- ...be the first to make peace?
And for each question, the bride and groom must:
- pick up their shoes - if they themselves do it;
- spouse's shoes - if he should do it;
- two at once if they think they will do it together.
Advice! Shoes can be replaced with other items, for example, a ladle (feminine attribute) and a hammer (male attribute).
For the “Yours/Mine/Ours” competition you need:
- list of questions for the presenter;
- shoes of young people or other male and female attributes.
Tips for an interesting wedding
Responsibilities of guests at a wedding
The comic responsibilities of the bride and groom can be recorded in a certificate prepared in advance and presented as a memory of the wedding.
When conducting an entertainment program at the very beginning of the evening, the toastmaster can distribute comic duties to the guests at the wedding. The most active with a great sense of humor can receive the position of right-hand toastmaster or toast speaker. Treasurer, cupbearer, maid of honor, and other humorous appointments will help make for a fun, interesting holiday evening.
Who owes whom what?
Let's start with the fact that the list of responsibilities will differ not only from the type of housing (apartment, private house, bungalow on the seashore), but also from couple to couple.
Surely you have heard or even seen with your own eyes unions where the entire burden of household responsibilities lies almost entirely on the shoulders of one of the partners, while the other performs a purely decorative function in the home. It's unfair, don't you agree?
However, meticulously dividing each action, weighing its difficulty, can also lead to a break in the relationship.
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So what should each of you do? In our opinion, the problem is in the wording. The word “should” sounds like a yoke that is hung on you against your will and which you automatically want to resist.
Moreover, this reflex works in both men and women. But, alas, having come to the decision that you both should not do anything around the house, your couple risks either living in dirt and chaos, or giving substantial amounts of money from the budget to the service staff.
This means that current affairs still need to be distributed somehow. At this point, many remember the classic “female” and “male” responsibilities that they have heard or read about, and take them as a standard.
However, we all understand perfectly well that stereotypes about “breadwinners” and “hearth keepers” are hopelessly outdated, and even these “gold standards”, long before our time, have repeatedly changed among different peoples and at different times.
Just remember the period of World War II, when women of the USSR had to do all the housework without exception, as well as in factories, factories and in the fields, since their men were at the front or died.
And even without looking that far into the past, we see around us a lot of people who do not fit into the rules: men who cannot hold a hammer, and women who can fix a car and screw a shelf.
Conclusion? You cannot demand that a girl mop the floors, do laundry, iron, and do other housework just because “that’s what mom did.” But you shouldn’t put everything on yourself either. What should I do? Let's look at the principles of optimal separation of duties.
Measures to protect marital rights
Property and personal, non-property rights and obligations of spouses can be violated when, in the exercise of rights, one of the partners infringes on the interests of the other. To ensure compliance with legal norms, within the limits of family law, protective measures can be taken:
- if divorcing spouses are concerned about preserving the largest part of the property (in the interests of the family, citizens enter into an agreement on the re-registration of shares;
- a court decision initiates forced collection of debt and cancels marriage contracts;
- arrange alimony payments;
- establish the identity of the father for subsequent submission of claims for child support payments.
Legislation
Chapters of the Family Code and a set of federal legal acts are devoted to family issues. Chapter 3 of the RF IC regulates the following issues:
- rules for registration and termination of marriage;
- conditions for the emergence of marital relations;
- marriageable age;
- insurmountable obstacles, prohibitions and exceptions when deciding on the permissibility of marriage.
In addition, every nuance associated with the implementation of the rights and obligations of citizens in the role of family members is also reflected in the norms of the RF IC.
Article 256 describes the regimes for the ownership of property by spouses and the distribution of responsibility for obligations.
The process of state registration of marriage relations and the moment of the beginning of marriage is described in detail in Art. 27 Federal Law On acts of civil status.
Features of the implementation of family legal relations
In the process of fulfilling the property rights and obligations of the spouses, it is necessary to look for common points of contact with the partner, and determine specific conditions for the disposal of joint property, household, budget, etc.
When making general decisions, determining family needs and values, you have to act taking into account the current legal rules:
- The freedoms and interests of the second marriage partner or third parties, including minors, must not be violated (for example, a spouse changes his place of residence within the framework of his right to independently determine his place of residence, but the interests of the child suffer in this case).
- It cannot be abused (abortion in the name of a wife’s career violates a man’s right to become the father of a child).
- Rights are implemented taking into account accepted principles of morality and legality.
