Especially if you plan to get married in spring it is not always easy to stand out from all the other wedding-receptions. If you want to offer your guests something apart from the usual ingredients of a wedding reception like wedding speeches, the cake and the dance afterwards you might consider to organize some games.

Hardly any wedding is being planed without music. Usually you will have a band, a string quartet or a DJ. They might play during the meal and afterwards for the dance. But if you want to add a special touch to your wedding reception you might plan some musical games. It will add a fun component to your reception and keep your guests entertained.

A nice idea would be to have your guests play musical chairs. While this is a popular game for children, with some variation you can make it work for adults as well. Let the men be the chairs - they kneel on the floor, on leg bend, the other one on the floor. Like this the ladies can "sit" on their men's legs - the couple that fall over last, win the game. Prepare a nice price for the winning couple! You might consider giving the centerpiece of the table-decoration away as a price.

When the bride and the groom have done their first dance and everybody is supposed to start dancing for some self conscious guests it might be difficult to overcome their shyness. Do a snowball-dance, to get everybody out on the dance floor. You might choose a faster, fun piece of music for this dance, and announce that the only excuse not to dance will be broken hip or something similar! Then get dancing. After a little while the music stops and all dancers head for the tables to get themselves a new dancing-partner. Like this you will have everybody dancing in no time!

If your wedding is a smaller more intimate affair where guests know each other and the bride and groom quite well you might consider playing "name that tune". Whoever acts as a master of ceremonies (or DJ) prepares a CD with some of the favourite songs of each the bride and the groom, plus some tunes that have some kind of meaning to the couple (like "their" song). Now the DJ plays snippets of each song and whoever can identify it first, wins. You also can divide the guests in two teams. Again: have a price ready for the winning team, like a special bottle of Champagne.

Musical games are a great way to loosen up a wedding party and making sure that your guests will have a really good time at your wedding!

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