Hit, drink, play, drive: how to entertain the guests without a host?

In this article we won’t talk about magicians, cartoonists, photo booths and bubble shows. You know about them without us! Catch some unorthodox ways to make friends with the Millers and make a wild annealing at the party. And it doesn’t matter if it’s a wedding with the host or a chamber event without him: ideas will fit both scenarios of the holiday. Spoiler: At the end of the article, the comedian-clubbie and famous showman Dmitry Kojoma will tell you why it’s better not to give up the presenter at all!

When’s that gonna work? If there are a lot of young people at the wedding, if guests have to spend a lot of time waiting for their newlyweds, if the holiday will be held on the big stage or outdoors. In this case, the games will help to befriend all the guests, relax them and wrap them in the atmosphere of children’s joy.

It is important to choose not too clever and long games, but easy and interesting, where you do not have to strain and be afraid to embarrass yourself (as it can be with the intellectual!) Miniature golf, table football, “Danetka”, “Crocodile” – the mother of the bride, explaining the gestures of skunk – that’s a laughingstock! 🙂

The bride and groom’s task is to come up with a few funny headings in advance that relate to real-life situations, such as “Open the letter after the first quarrel,” “When you want to strangle each other,” “In moments of sadness,” “When you want to laugh,” and so on. And we need to prepare containers or crates for each column. The guest chooses which letter he writes to the couple. And when that very moment comes, you will open the right box and have fun or reconcile yourself, if your wife scolded for scattered socks, and your husband was offended!

Nothing will make Fockers and Millers feel more comfortable than hot drinks and a positive atmosphere! Trust the bartender, who is almost like a psychologist, has a talent for liberating people and making them a little closer… and drunker! 🙂

Everybody will be drinking at the wedding, but drinking after a spectacular show or even taking part in the creation of a cocktail for the future father-in-law – that’s more fun! Will fix the effect of wow using lights, music, pyrotechnics, fire, juggling and other bartender chips.

But don’t overdo it with strong drinks at the very beginning of the holiday: the guests still need to be sober to go out and remember the whole wedding, not just what happened before the bartender show! At non alcohol weddings you can serve soft drinks, frescoes and smoothies.

How does this work? At the festival set up a flipbook studio with equipment and props. Guests come and go in short and dynamic clips (about 7 seconds) and in a few minutes get their book with a flipbook photo! Believe me, it’s cooler than bringing home magnets, cookies and just single photos!

All adults are just tall children! And men are like that. Driving on controlled cars instead of a starchy and high-society cocktail of welcome with harpists – what could be better?

Mini-trails can be installed on the floor or on a table. There is only one danger of such entertainment: the guests will be so passionate about the game that they can forget why they all gathered. But don’t panic: you can remind them of the event by changing the machines to wedding machines.

Live quests with moving around the playground will be suitable for the wedding. For such entertainment it is necessary: a) a lot of space, b) time for its passage in order not to separate the guests from the main celebration. Hide tasks in different objects, create puzzles, set traps – do everything you can imagine. And if you don’t have enough, you can hire a quest developer. Yes, there are!

The second option – static field quests. This is most often a container, box (for example, telephone) and other variations of the quest without moving, a la “try to get out of the room”. And you don’t need a lot of space, and it’s interesting!

Oh, it’s a childhood dream for all of us! Remember, in American movies on holidays, children beat a rainbow unicorn or a shiny ball suspended from a tree with baseball bats and beat them until the figure broke and prizes, candy and confetti fell from there? Well, that’s what they call a piñata! : )

For the wedding, you can prepare a few of these toys of papier-mache or wrapping paper so that guests could not once watch the wreckage of a mumps, heart or some animal, as well as laugh at waving sticks with closed eyes of the participant! Needless to say, the pictures from such entertainment will be as lively, sparkling and juicy as possible!

• Say “No!” to the over-saturated program. Don’t turn a wedding into a concert or worse, a circus! In any case, everything will not be in time: it will be hard both physically and emotionally, not only for you and your fiancé, but also for the guests. Guests should not be torn between contests, congratulations, toasts, shows and entertainment.
• Don’t overdo it! Do not scuffle like a goose on New Year’s Eve with different activities and rooms. I’d rather have less, but better! Choose only what reflects the style and idea of the wedding! And without additional entertainment at the wedding there are a lot of interesting activities: the first meeting of the bride and groom, traveling ceremony, the first dance, dance with parents, taking out the cake, throwing a bouquet and garter, lighting the hearth, the finale of the evening. This is not counting the work of the presenter, his interactivity and contests, and do not forget about the dance, show program and artists!
• Follow the logical pauses between activities. Between all these activities you need to maintain a balance, so that you and your fiancé and guests have time for simple communication, snacks (whatever it is there!), selfies, reflections (selfies with their other half), belfies (photos of the back facade of your body) and all other types of photography. 🙂