Quizzes for Guests? Ideas?

We were considering doing this at one point, partly because a lot of our guests don't know each other and partly because we met at a pub quiz, so it was quite apt.

I don't like the "questions about the bride & groom either" because there are always some people who will obviously know the answers more than others. Some ideas I had:

1. Quotes from love movies

2. Picture round - photos of celebrity weddings

3. Questions on marriage traditions - you'll find these anywhere on Google

We had a quiz, there were several sections. The first section was about June (when the wedding was) eg who was born on this day in such and such year. Then there was a section about Suffolk (where we live and where the wedding was). Then there was a section about us. Then there was a section about song lyrics. We choose some of our favourite songs and printed out a couple of lines of the lyrics and people had to name the song title and artist. It seemed to go down really well and got people talking. We mixed the tables half and half with my guests and hubbys guests. We tried to design the questions so that each friendship/family group would be likely to know the answer to at least one of the questions about us.

Liking all three of those ideas! Am off to google ?

Thank you

Great ideas, thank you - I particularly like the song lyric idea - definately going with that!

I quite like the ones with clues like '13 in a BD", "15 M O A D M C" and you have to fill in the phrases (13 in a baker's dozen, 15 men on a dead man's chest). I think they're good for ice breaking. I'm sure there are whole quizzes of them on the internet.

My brother had the 'wedding tradition' type quiz. What animal does the bride ride on in Mongolia, what is the blacken in Scotland etc. The table with the most correct & also funniest answers won small prizes.

Hi, we are planning in doing a quiz as an ice breaker too as we are having a BBQ buffet as our main meal so people may have a little wait before there table.

We also met at a pub quiz too!! One question I liked that I found was (if your having one) what is the combined age of the top table? Also we were getting baby pictures of the bridal party too? Someone as a tie breaker had "what piece if advice would you give the happy couple for a successful marriage"

Are you marking yours or is it only as a fun ice breaker? As one issue I can't work out is when/how will they get marked or will you have answers somewhere on table? As I wanted to do a silly little prize for winning table?

We're going to be doing a 'Pass the Parcel' type thing. There will be a present on each table with a different tag on each layer saying things like ' the person who has known the bride and groom the longest or the person who travelled the furthest to be here etc' this person then opens the layer with a little present in and then the next layer has another tag on with something different. I saw this on a website and thought it would be a good way of getting people talking and it ties in well with our Christmas theme with the present.

Rachel xx

Oh, that's a great idea! We're having a Christmas wedding too. Would you mind sharing more info re the different tags etc, or the website where you saw it? I'm not very good at thinking things up, but I think this would be great as we'll have some potentially 'dead time' before the evening buffet.

Heres the website although I'm gonna make my own as seems simple enough. Havn't thought about what questions to put on all the tags yet though.

http://www.partyfavourz.com/acatalog/info_PP01.html

Rach xx

Ah that's fab - thanks so much. That helps me get a better idea of this. Definitely going to suggest it to my OH!

I just did a quick Google search for wedding pass the parcel questions and found some ideas... hope these help you too!

Who has travelled the furthest to be here today

Who has known the bride or groom for longest

Who had the most recent birthday?
Who has the most siblings?
Who's moved house the most in the last five years?

The person who has had the most alcohol to drink! That might be a funny one
The person who has the funniest memory of the bride/groom
Who has attended the most weddings?? In last two years

Wearing the most bling

Who took the longest to get ready that morning

Who has been in their job the longest

Fab ideas everyone ?

OH is quite excited about pulling sections together which include elements of most of your suggestions! Might have to restrict him to maximum of 50 questions, otherwise he's prone to getting carried away!

LB xx

I went to a friend's wedding where she asked all the guests to supply her with a random fact about themselves before the wedding. When we sat down, there was a little envelope with our names on and inside was a question saying stuff like 'someone on this table once climbd mount everest, can you guess who? etc - then we all had a guess before the person who it was owned up. That person then had to read out his/her fact and it started again.

Sounds similar to the pass the parcel idea, it was a great ice-breaker!

These are all such fab ideas! Such a shame we dont have time for something like this really.

What about baby photos of each of the guests and they have to work out whose who?! Might be a bit embarrasing for some though...

Ooh... and if you have wipe clean table names and dry wipe marker pens on the table, each table could make up their own team name!! Hmm.. may be getting a little carried away..