The best thing about this wedding trend is that it gets guests involved in the action!!!
It’s all about creating moments where guests are involved and not passively watching the wedding happen around them.
Today I’m going to share some really cute and creative ways you can host interactive wedding entertainment:
Get them interacting at the very start
Before the wedding even begins, drop hints that you’re going for something interactive when you first give your guests their wedding invitations.
Make the RSVP options super fun, like “Heck yes, see you on the dance floor”
And then leave a slot where your guests can write the name of a song they’d love to dance to. You can gather these up and add them to your ‘must play’ list.
Give them something to do while you’re preoccupied
There are several moments in the day where you can’t be part of the action, like when you’re getting photos taken. So, have things your guests can do during those moments:
- Lawn games for an outdoor summer wedding.
- Ask guests to write out date night ideas and pop them in a box or jar for you.
- Set up an area or a wall full of photos that guests can look at – they can be photos of you and your partner as children (maybe individual photos of each of you at the same age), photos of your relationship and adventures, or photos of you with your friends and family.
A professional entertainer
Hire a magician, mentalist or mindreader to go around to your guests and entertain them. They’ll love having someone perform magic tricks and read their minds. Some professionals are able to guess the name of childhood pets and that kind of thing – which your guests will absolutely love!
A photobooth
A photobooth or videobooth could double as your wedding favours or your guest book – or both!
Get your guests inside, posing with fun props and having a good time.
A photobooth will capture the photos which can be stuck inside a guestbook and your guests can write you a nice message and then keep the other copy of the photo.
A videobooth will give your guests a video airdropped to them afterwards which they can post on social media.
The party
Your band and DJ:
A band that gets people included
You want your guests singing along
Get them doing a train around the venue
Props:
Inflatable guitars, glowsticks, bubbles
Song choices:
Songs that get them singing along
Songs with actions (the macarena, YMCA, cha cha slide)
Extra fun elements
- Stick on tattoos
- Get them involved in TikTok trends (like the glasses trend)
- Give them a reason to take photos and videos and post them online / share them with you
A special interactive first dance
Instead of dancing, why not invite all the married couples onto the dance floor. Have your MC invite guests to stay on the dance floor if they’ve been married for longer than 1 year… Then continue dancing for a little bit, then ask guests to stay if they’ve been married for longer than 5 years… then 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, and so on until you’re left with one happy couple who have been happily married for the longest.
Games
There are so many ways you can incorporate games into your wedding!
There are cocktail hour games outside, you could have a table with board games for guests who aren’t super into dancing.
You could also host a game or quiz in the middle of your reception.
I’ve seen this amazing game where you have a group of guests come up onto the dance floor and sit on chairs – could be 10 – 20 guests, maybe one or two people from each table.
Then have your MC give them specific things from around the room that they need to collect. Kind of like a treasure hunt. So you’d start with 20 people on the dance floor, seated. The MC would say ‘in 3 seconds, I want you to find an empty wine glass… 3, 2, 1… go’. The first 18 people to come back are still in the game. These 18 guests sit down on the dance floor again, and the MC could say something like ‘in 3 seconds, I want you to find a purse that isn’t yours… 3, 2, 1… go’. First 16 people to come back are still in the game. And you continue until there’s one person left.
Group photos on the dance floor
Create a moment where all eyes are on the dance floor, so you still get that special moment where everyone is nearby and ready to start dancing.
You and your partner can sit together on chairs in the middle of the dance floor. Get your DJ to play a fun song and have your photographer ready and waiting. Have all your guests around the dance floor, standing in their table groups.
Then, with the instruction of your DJ or MC, have each group run up behind you and pose for a photo on the dance floor.
Interactive food
Get your guests involved in creating and interacting with their own food:
- A ‘build your own dessert’ station with ice-cream, toppings and sauces.
- A chocolate fountain with all your favourite foods to dip in.
- Popcorn bar with toppings and sprinkles.
- Donut wall, prosecco wall, cupcake wall.
