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Fun Wedding Music Pursuits

Music is as much a component of a great wedding as food and drink. You can have a wedding without music, but it’s likely it will look at a little quiet and dull. So whether you have a full live band, a string quartet, a DJ spinning tunes or recorded music from a boom box, it should be included.

But music’s not just for dancing. The’re a myriad of pursuits you can plan around the music that will add an element of fun to your big day.

One popular idea is to play musical chairs. Sure, this is a fun kid’s game and you don’t want to insult your guests in any way, but you may have some fun with this interpretation of musical chairs. The chairs can be just about anything, from chairs aligned from the food tables, to the floor, if you think your invited guests may be ready to accept sitting on the floor (and then having to arise and down again). One fun alternative is to use the men as the chairs – they kneel on the floor, with one knee on the floor and the other bent. The women sit lightly on the men’s’ knees as they are playing musical chairs. When either the male or female falls down, that partnership is out, until one couple is left.

Some newlyweds like to play musical chairs in order to give away the table focal point, which lots of guests love to take home. As opposed to assigning a number and awarding the centerpiece to the individual in possession of that number, you have each table play musical chairs until the person left standing is the one that gets to take home the centerpiece.

How about a rousing game of “name that tune”? This is a game that’s best for a smaller, intimate wedding where everyone knows the the happy couple well. Before the wedding ceremony, whoever is planning the wedding ceremony should get a directory of favorite songs of both the bride and bridegroom. Build a CD of those songs, and then make a game of “name that tune”. Guests can be separated into teams and then be played just a tiny snippet of each song.

After guests hear that first snippet, they can then “bid” on how quickly they can name the tune. So one set may say they can name the tune in 10 seconds, while the other set may say 5 seconds. Once one group has bowed out, the other group will then have to “name that tune”. This is a fun game that gets everyone involved and which the the happy couple are particularly delighted by.

Dependent on the type of the wedding ceremony, there are lots of enjoyable games you can play to have the the happy couple out on the dance floor. Now, if this is a huge and very elegant wedding, this alternative may not work since there’s certain decorum to maintain, but for a casual, fun, family-centered wedding a large number of these games can be entertaining.

If guests want to “call out” the marriage ceremony couple onto the dance floor, they can be asked to go out on the dance floor themselves first and hula hoop or perform their own version of a break dance. Much in the way guests occasionally have to “perform” to get the pair the kiss this is a different way to get the guests involved and having fun as a way to create fun wedding memories for the bride and bridegroom.

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