Hi Everyone,
First of all, congratulations to all the brides to be and of course those already married who are reading this. Not sure where to put this question up but I guess here is as good as any.
Our wedding was supposed to be in April, but was postponed due to C-19 and we've rescheduled for September. Maybe not the best time to choose in hindsight but back in March when we had to make the decision on our April date, September was the only time until next year that the venue had available.
Our original wedding was planned to be somewhat more standard with a band etc, but with the various restrictions, social distancing considerations, number who can attend, weather, lost deposits with suppliers etc, we've decided to be a bit more out of the ordinary. Our band isn't available and would take up extra numbers of attendees if restrictions on gatherings are still in place which we think is likely.
On the entertainment side, we are planning to draw on our early teenage years TV viewing.
First of all, we're thinking of do an eating challenge like on Fear Factor or I'm a Celeb Get Me Outta Here. Our idea is to have the bridesmaids up on the stage and each of the bridesmaids do 3 rounds each! Not sure if we should have different 'trials' for each, or have the same 'food' in each round for each of the bridesmaids? I've mentioned it to the girls and they think it'll be fun but with a little bit of nerves in the background! They'd be blindfolded so not know what to expect! We have a few ideas for 'weird' gross trials that we could get pretty easily like cow's heart, sheeps brain, fish eyes etc but any ideas we could go with would be welcome?
Our other idea is a sorta Jackass challenge. We'll have each of the groomsmen blindfolded and line up to take a kick to their goolies! We don't think we'll be able to get 3 rounds from each of them for this! My H2B is kinda saying it's like 1 and the guy is done. So I'm thinking maybe they could hold a pint of beer or whatever and go one at a time, which ever guy holds on to it or keeps the most beer in his glass is the winner. Not sure if this would work? Or if there's some variation we could go with?
We're hoping to add another idea as well to try to involve the guests but we're not sure what? If not, we could maybe have the eating challenge done by the guests by pulling a name from a hat in an 'un'lucky dip on each of the tables and then have the bridesmaids be in the second challenge instead (on the delivery end of course, not the receiving!).
Or maybe go with some sort of table v table challenge, like a Who Wants to be a Millionaire type game?
If any of you have thoughts or ideas what else we could do, or how to run it, or how to make it more interactive with guests etc we'd love to hear it. With lost deposits and covid changes with jobs, the more cheap and cheerful the better!
Thank you!
