Pre Wedding Reception Activities

There are many little details to worry when planning a wedding some might be forgotten. One small detail that is often overlooked is how to keep guests entertained before the wedding reception "officially" begins.

There is no requirement that brides entertain their guests at all. In spite of all, they went to your wedding (which of course is interesting and entertaining, right?) And they're easy to get music, food and beverages. What more could they want? Apparently, a lot. While the bride and groom are off having pictures taken, visitors are left to their own devices, chatting with other guests and wondering when to blow open.

In that light, it is worth considering at least some pre-reception options for keeping wedding guests entertained until the reception begins. Here are a few choices, traditions, some not, but still fun.

First, you can do the traditional thing and provide guests with a drink and maybe some snacks. If the wedding is in summer, how about providing lemonade and iced tea? Or if it's winter, coffee and hot tea or hot chocolate depending on the style of your wedding. Provide snacks not a bad idea, either, and it could have some appetizer-type foods or nuts, especially if heavy food.

Now, if you want to deviate from tradition, there are many options. Some brides choose to entertain guests in the truest sense of the word. Clown, anyone? How to live music?

If you want to venture into the fun and funky, consult the party planning pages of local children or old magazines. Here, you can find someone to entertain your kids at their birthday party, but many of them will gladly take the work of marriage. You can hire a clown to make balloon animals for the kids (and adults) are present, or to juggle several things. Some clowns are true entertainers and will happily get the crowd involved by taking items from women's purses and juggling them.

Non-traditional options for entertaining your guests will include taking a band plays music first. If you plan to classical music at your wedding, you can cover band come and play pop songs today, or you could just accept your band to come a little early to entertain guests waiting for full acceptance to start.

If there is a lot of children in marriage, not too expensive to hire a young band to sing and entertain the kids for a bit. And if the kids a little bored with acceptance, they are still the memory earlier entertainment with them. In addition, while the children have been entertained, adults can have a chance to chat and they will surely thank the bride to think this way.

Some other options to entertain the crowd before the festivities begin your anxiety is to include them in the reception before it begins. This is an excellent time to ask people to sign the guest book and write something meaningful, because they will have more time than usual because they accept they have a file of the hall.

If the wedding and reception areas at the same location, but the bride and groom are off having pictures taken, it may seem as though the problem of how to keep visitors entertained, but in reality,.

In this case, the server can spread appetizer trays or you can do something more complicated, because some of the suggestions above. A popular choice is not involved in entertaining visitors at all. Say the wedding took place at a historic house or home. During the pause before the reception, guests were given a tour of the property. If the wedding and reception are both held at the new house mate, tour the property may be in order (assuming the guest list is small enough).