Fun table entertainment

Here are some ideas for you -- word search with words meaning somthing for the two of you.

Guess the amount.

I see this quite a lot - you have to guess the length of the speaches

I have also seen a cross word with things like what month did we meet.

You could even do both cross word and word search, but the word search with out words, so you have to do the cross word 1st and the answers to that would give the words to search.

1st to complete wins a prize

To me, tables of adults at weddings don't really need 'entertaining'. If it's a some jokey ice breakers, perhaps - but to be honest adults should be capable of making conversation with strangers, and as someone said, those questions would naturally come up. I'd be a bit insulted if I was a guest at a wedding and the couple thought I'd need a crossword puzzle to keep me quiet/entertained.

The speech sweepstake I've seen before, but more naturally done usually someone going round with a pint glass of pound coins and a bit of paper!

I agree with ATB, I am not a fan of forced fun. We had wine monitors on each table to make sure everyones glass was topped up and to tell the waiting staff when they had run out, this went down well and was a talking point. We made sure we gave the job ( and badge ) to the most outspoken person on each table which soon got the ball rolling.

People left to their own devices will talk though, I would say it is more important to get the right mix of people on a table though.

Agree with ATB

Eating dinner at a table is entertainment enough for me and I actually would find it quite rude/irritating for people to be doing these things at the dinner table (like I would be if someone was on their phone every 5 minutes)

We didn't have any games although I did have scrabble letters as place names and people had some fun making filthy sentences out of those.

Hours of fun....

I completely agree with Bea - you really don't need to provide anything to entertain your guests during the meal - if you get the right mix of people they'll just chat to each other. The wine monitor idea is great too, we've seen that at quite a few weddings.

I don't think the crossword / wordsearch idea is great, if you did want to provide something for people to "do" then some kind of team activity would be better than everyone having their heads buried in a puzzle and not chatting to each other ?

This is a fabulous idea, love it! I think all these little quirky ideas add up and just makes your day that bit more special. Plus just think how exciting it'll be to read all the comments, doodles little bits of random awesomeness when you return from honeymoon...you can piece together who was the most drunk first! But yes questions...could be, tell us a funny fact about the person sitting to your left?! Good luck, fun fun fun.

Thanks NathalieSB. We're having a hogroast so there is going to be various people waiting to go up to get those while others are eating, and all our friends and family love doing silly little things like this so I didn't really want to listen to what people didn't want to do, but be given ideas of what to include.

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