Planning For Fun At Your Outdoor Wedding Reception

How to plan a fun-filled outdoor wedding reception?

The wedding ceremony is done. You are officially married and now, time to celebrate and have a fun-filled outdoor wedding reception! Traditionally, wedding reception activities include wedding traditions like cutting of the cake, first dance as husband and wife and the other traditional dances (bride and father-of-the-bride,groom and mother-of-groom, etc.), garter toss, bouquet toss and of course, the dancing for everyone. You can still incorporate them in your celebration and add other activities and games.

Here are nontraditional ways to have fun at your wedding celebration.

Games for Everyone

Since having the event outdoors, the atmosphere is not as formal as compared to having the event indoors.Outdoor weddings usually have an air of informality and guests are more relaxed because of the casual atmosphere and they easily mingle with other guests. Depending on where the location of the reception, there are many ways you can liven up your wedding celebration.

When having a beach wedding reception, one game that guests really love to watch and participate in is the limbo game. Your DJ can start off with the newly weds and the wedding entourage. The fun and excitement that would generate after that will be a draw for the other guests to join in.

Having a backyard outdoor wedding reception? Does it have a pool? Then ask your guests to bring swimsuits with them and they can have fun in the pool! Get the beach ball out and get ready for a fun-filled evening!

What you play will depend on where the wedding is and how the guests are attired. A game like croquet is easy to set up in a park or large backyard and is possible in semi-formal clothing.

If the wedding is very casual, a park with large grassy area may be great for volleyball or a huge circle of folks passing a frisbee.

More Great Ideas for an Outdoor Wedding Reception

Stage a slideshow of you and your husband's childhood pictures during the reception. How about pictures of you the two of you taken while you were on your destination wedding? (This applies if this is a belated wedding reception for the folks back home who were not able to attend your wedding). Showing slides always interests everybody and makes your wedding celebration more memorable.

Plan a weekend wedding. A weekend wedding is a wedding in which couples and their guests celebrate over the course of a weekend. Special activities, such as spa treatments and golf tournaments, may be scheduled into the wedding itinerary throughout the weekend. Lodging usually is at the same facility as the wedding and couples often host a Sunday brunch for the weekend's finale.

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