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How To Make Your Wedding Fun For Your Guests

Have you ever been to a wedding that was unadulterated fun and excitement from start to finish? If you have, you know it’s such a joy! If you haven’t then you might be wondering how to achieve such a feat! With your wedding around the corner you might be wondering how to make your wedding fun for your guests. It all starts with interactive ideas that get your guests involved. While that can include an endless list of ideas, here’s some great building blocks to get you started! Remember, think of how you can connect with your guests on your wedding day. Not only will your guests have fun, but you and your guests will enjoy the chance to interact during this special day!

Start With A BANG!

I recently had the privilege of capturing Ron and Phil’s wedding at Hilton Fallsview Hotel & Resort, in Niagara Falls, ON. They really knew how to answer the question of how to make your wedding fun for your guests! They kicked off the night with a confetti cannon. A CONFETTI CANNON! I cannot think of a more appropriate way to signify that your guests are in for a fun night! Think of something you can bring to your wedding day that can set the tone for the evening. Something that tells your guests there in for a fun night!

People Come For The Wedding, But Stay For The Dancing!

Let’s get real for a second. Your two won’t be the only ones looking forward to strutting your moves on the dance floor the night of your wedding. So open things up for some fun! Maybe have your MC throw down a dance off challenge to eager guests. You could also try to organize your wedding guests into age groupings, and play a hit from their day that they get to own the dance floor to. Anything that gets those feet moving, and those grins stretching. Talk to your band or DJ as well, see if they have any creative ideas to liven up the dance floor. Maybe throw a freeze dance game into the mix, and see who’s left standing by the end of the song.The dance floor always seems to be the time and place for guests to have fun and connect at any wedding.

Game of Alters

Why was Game of Thrones such a smashing success? The battles? The character development? The sex scenes? NO. The games of course! Ok, maybe that’s a stretch. There is nothing better at a wedding than ice breaking games that get the guests interacting. This can be as casual as a couples trivia game. You can even go as bold as to throw a Twister matt down and let the hilarity ensue. Maybe during cocktail hour you could have your wedding planner organize a mad lib about you two as a couple that your guests could all respond to. While you two are busy having photos done, the planner could put the mad lib together for you two to read during speeches.

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 groom smiles and wedding guest look on as the other groom reads his vows aloud during wedding ceremony at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls man pointing to where the grooms signs the marriage certificate during his wedding at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms holding hands and laughing during wedding ceremony at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls man pointing out where the witness signs the marriage certificate during wedding ceremony at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls man pointing out where the witness signs the marriage certificate during ceremony at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms holding hands and laughing hard after their wedding ceremony at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms holding hands and laughing hard after their wedding at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms holding hands walking past their guests as they exit their wedding ceremony at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls groom hugging one of his wedding guests after the ceremony at the Hilton Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls wedding guests posing together on the dance floor and holding up peace signs with their hands during wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls wedding guests having fun on the dance floor during the wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls gold streamers shoot from a canon during the wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms wearing wacky glasses as they read speeches at the podium during their wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls wedding guest with her hands over her chest and smiling during wedding speeches at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls wedding guest holding up large picture of the grooms during the fun wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms hugging parents during fun wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls wedding guests dancing during a fun wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls wedding guests dancing and a girl in a red dress twirling during a fun wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls guests dancing during a fun wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls groom wrapping his arms around a wedding guest seated at a table with the other guests laughing during the reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls wedding MC holding microphone up to a wedding guest that has his hands up and is yelling during reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls woman holds a glass of wine and looks over her wedding speech during reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms sitting at their head table listening to speeches while one groom wipes tears from his eyes during reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms sitting at their head table listening to a woman deliver her speech while she and the grooms wipe tears from their eyes during reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms reading game instructions into their microphones while seated guests are scribbling away on clipboards during a fun wedding at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms reading game instructions into their microphones for their seated guests that are scribbling away on clipboards during a fun wedding at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms reading their wedding speeches into their microphones during a fun wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls A wedding guest writing down her answers on a clipboard to a game being played during a fun wedding at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms laughing and reading out questions to their guests for their game during their fun wedding at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms instructing guests about the rules for the game they planned for their fun wedding at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls wedding guest and groom laughing during a fun wedding game for the reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls grooms holding hands and dancing during their fun wedding reception at the Hilton Fallsview in Niagara Falls
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If you really want to know how to make your wedding fun for your guests, just remember these two things:

  1. The more fun you two are having, the more fun the guests will have since laughing and smiling is contagious!
  2. The more you find ways to incorporate your guests into the evenings activities the more fun they’re going to have!

It’s as simple as that! If you want to pick my brain and find out some of my all time favourite fun ideas for wedding I’ve shot in the past contact me below.

Vendors:

Venue/caterer/desserts – Hilton Fallsview Hotel & Resort, Niagara Falls, ON

Florist – BBBlooms

Tiffany Sacco, Special Events Manager, Hilton Fallsview

DJ – The Sound of Harmony 

Officiant – Andrew Brouwer

Wedding attire:

Ron – Strauss

Phil – Indochino

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by Gillian Foster

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