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Wedding Weekend Activities
Weekend weddings are becoming more popular, particularly as families are
spread further apart. They usually begin on Friday night, continue with
the wedding Saturday and conclude with a post-wedding breakfast on
Sunday before everyone returns home.
Planning activities for these weekend-long celebrations doesn't have to
be difficult; in fact, it can be quite a bit of fun if you keep
everyone's needs in mind. First, consider the wedding. Will this be a
formal wedding with a sit-down dinner at its center? If so, you might
want to ban a formal rehearsal dinner and replace it instead with an
informal barbecue dinner or picnic.
But how will you keep people occupied during the long weekend? There are
many activities to consider. Will the wedding be near a lake? How about
planning a day at the lake on Saturday, filled with pre-wedding
activities like swimming races and beach volleyball.
One popular pre-wedding activity is a scavenger hunt. Prior to the
wedding weekend, a list of meaningful items should be drawn up, and
guests placed in two teams. The list should include things like "get a
brochure from the jewelry store where (groom) bought (bride)'s ring" or
"take a picture of the group at the location where the couple got
engaged". You will have to tailor the scavenger hunt list to the
location of the wedding and the energy of the guests who will be
participating.
You can even offer lavish prizes for the team that wins the scavenger
hunt, such as gift certificates or gourmet food and wine baskets. It
might seem an obvious choice to divide the teams into groups who know or
are related to the bride and teams who know or are related to the groom,
but it might be a little more fun to mix it up a bit. You can create
teams of friends versus family, or men versus women (always a popular
choice).
Another activity that's popular during wedding weekends is a competitive
sport activity, such as baseball or flag football. Again, add a special
twist. Offer prizes for performance (first home run gets a kiss from the
bride) or make silly rules, like members of the bridal party have to
wear tiaras while running bases or members of the groom's family should
always have their shirts on backwards.
It's important that during the wedding weekend, planners keep in mind
that the weekend itself might be expensive for some guests, particularly
those who had to fly in for the occasion and many of the activities
should be free, or inexpensive. If they are more expensive, and planned
for the entire group, they should be paid for by either the bride and
groom or their families.
But there are plenty of activities that don't have to be expensive, but
can provide big bang for the little buck, such as the scavenger hunt
suggested above. If the wedding weekend guests will mostly be family,
you can schedule a home movie-viewing event, including home movies from
both the bride and groom's families. For even more fun, consider an
activity where the movies are mixed up and the guests have to guess
which family's videos they are watching. This might sound easy, but
depending on the contents, it could be hard, particularly if the bride
and groom are babies in the photos.
Article Courtesy of BetterLivingGuides
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<a href="http://www.weddingonabudget.tv">Visit www.weddingonabudget.tv
</a>
Weekend weddings are becoming more popular, particularly as families are
spread further apart. They usually begin on Friday night, continue with
the wedding Saturday and conclude with a post-wedding breakfast on
Sunday before everyone returns home.
Planning activities for these weekend-long celebrations doesn't have to
be difficult; in fact, it can be quite a bit of fun if you keep
everyone's needs in mind. First, consider the wedding. Will this be a
formal wedding with a sit-down dinner at its center? If so, you might
want to ban a formal rehearsal dinner and replace it instead with an
informal barbecue dinner or picnic.
But how will you keep people occupied during the long weekend? There are
many activities to consider. Will the wedding be near a lake? How about
planning a day at the lake on Saturday, filled with pre-wedding
activities like swimming races and beach volleyball.
One popular pre-wedding activity is a scavenger hunt. Prior to the
wedding weekend, a list of meaningful items should be drawn up, and
guests placed in two teams. The list should include things like "get a
brochure from the jewelry store where (groom) bought (bride)'s ring" or
"take a picture of the group at the location where the couple got
engaged". You will have to tailor the scavenger hunt list to the
location of the wedding and the energy of the guests who will be
participating.
You can even offer lavish prizes for the team that wins the scavenger
hunt, such as gift certificates or gourmet food and wine baskets. It
might seem an obvious choice to divide the teams into groups who know or
are related to the bride and teams who know or are related to the groom,
but it might be a little more fun to mix it up a bit. You can create
teams of friends versus family, or men versus women (always a popular
choice).
Another activity that's popular during wedding weekends is a competitive
sport activity, such as baseball or flag football. Again, add a special
twist. Offer prizes for performance (first home run gets a kiss from the
bride) or make silly rules, like members of the bridal party have to
wear tiaras while running bases or members of the groom's family should
always have their shirts on backwards.
It's important that during the wedding weekend, planners keep in mind
that the weekend itself might be expensive for some guests, particularly
those who had to fly in for the occasion and many of the activities
should be free, or inexpensive. If they are more expensive, and planned
for the entire group, they should be paid for by either the bride and
groom or their families.
But there are plenty of activities that don't have to be expensive, but
can provide big bang for the little buck, such as the scavenger hunt
suggested above. If the wedding weekend guests will mostly be family,
you can schedule a home movie-viewing event, including home movies from
both the bride and groom's families. For even more fun, consider an
activity where the movies are mixed up and the guests have to guess
which family's videos they are watching. This might sound easy, but
depending on the contents, it could be hard, particularly if the bride
and groom are babies in the photos.
Article Courtesy of BetterLivingGuides
For more Wedding Planning Tips & How to Plan Your Wedding on a budget -
<a href="http://www.weddingonabudget.tv">Visit www.weddingonabudget.tv
</a>
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