Musical competitions for weddings ??: song competitions for weddings, vocal competitions for weddings

“Oh, this wedding, wedding, wedding sang and danced...” It is simply impossible to imagine a banquet without songs and dances, because musical accompaniment is an important part of any celebration. In addition, it is customary to break up the long wedding feast with competitions. In this article we will look at what interesting music competitions there are for weddings.

Why do we need entertainment? The competition program is an important part of any wedding; with its help you can create a fun and relaxed atmosphere at the holiday.

Types of interesting entertainment

Typically, such entertainment is divided into individual and team. Depending on the location, there are two types of music competitions for guests and newlyweds.

Table parties - they are held without leaving the table. The purpose of such competitions is to diversify the feast, take a break between toasts, make guests smile and get to know each other.
Competitions in the hall. They are distinguished by a significant degree of activity. As a rule, for such competitions you need not just to sing some kind of melody, but also to dance or perform some other action to the music.

Based on the degree of involvement, the following can be distinguished.

Competitions for everyone. Such competitions should dominate the program, because to create the right atmosphere at a wedding, it is necessary that no one gets bored or feels deprived of attention. Monitoring this is one of the responsibilities of the leader. For this reason, the competition program is always drawn up taking into account the age and interests of those invited.
Competitions for the bride and groom. Be sure to include a couple of competitions in the program for the main heroes of the occasion.
Competitions for witnesses , as well as for father-in-law/mother-in-law/father-in-law. At every wedding there are separate categories of guests who are usually distinguished from others. Usually this is a friend of the groom and a friend of the bride, as well as the parents of the newlyweds. As a rule, the toastmaster includes one competition in the program specifically for them.

Important! Competitions at a wedding should be varied. Alternate intellectual and entertaining, table and active competitions.

Competitions held in the hall

When preparing for active competitions, it is necessary to prepare suitable props.

You may need balloons, children's musical instruments, clothespins, newspapers, etc. When the newlyweds have danced their first dance, and the guests have relaxed and gotten comfortable, it's time to start holding active musical competitions, for example:

Dancing couples. Pairs of participants are invited to slow dance on a newspaper. During the dance, the music stops and the newspaper is folded in half each time. The winner is the couple that lasts the longest without stepping over the edge of the newspaper.

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"Gophers and minks." Any number of female participants (preferably 8-10) and one more guy are invited. The girls stand in a circle with their backs inward, and the guys are located outside the circle facing the girls. While the music is playing, the guys must move in a circle one after another, and when the music stops, they, like gophers, must hide in a hole, that is, hide their heads between the girl’s knees. The "gopher", who did not have enough "mink", leaves the game, taking one of the girls with him. The most dexterous “gopher” and the most comfortable “mink” win.

Musical applications. The host asks each guest in advance what song he wants to hear. In addition, you need to find out who should perform it and why this particular person will sing it. Having received such a request, guests almost never refuse to perform the song.
"Turnip" . This competition is based on the principle of a famous fairy tale. You need to select 10 famous songs about wedding or love and write down on separate cards the words that end all the lines of the first verse of each song. Using these “tails,” participants must guess the song.

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These competitions may seem a little boring, but they are not. Many guests always take part in them, and the rest actively support them.

Table

Many music competitions can be held without leaving the table.

Remember the song. Guests take turns remembering and singing wedding-themed songs. If you delve into your memory, you can remember a lot of such songs. The winner is the participant who sang last and did not repeat the songs of the previous guests.
Musical questions. Another team competition in which one team asks a question with a line from a song, and the second team must answer it with a line from another song. For example, the question “I asked the ash tree where my beloved is?” Answer: “Where the maple tree rustles over the river wave.”
Musical hat. First you need to “cut” the melodies of popular songs and prepare a hat. The host puts it on the heads of the guests one by one and asks tricky questions, and the hat gives funny musical answers.

For the hall

For these competitions, participants need to get up from the table and go to the presenter.

Guess the melody. This popular game can now be used to hold competitions at weddings. The invitees are divided into two teams; To guess the melody, one participant from each of them is chosen in turn. The team that managed to guess the most songs wins.
Congratulations to the young people. Two teams also take part in this competition - each of them is given a sheet of words, and they must, in a short time, come up with a song in which these words will be used, and then perform it.
Song competition. Participants of the competition stand in a circle facing each other. One participant sings a verse from any song, the next must immediately sing a verse from another song containing at least one word from the text of the previous participant. Anyone who could not do this or got lost is eliminated from the competition.

Musical competitions for guests

There are many games that are played to music; you can choose from competitions that have already been tested over the years, or come up with your own.

The main thing is that they coincide with the theme of the celebration, the worldview of the guests and newlyweds. Therefore, it is worth choosing modern songs or those that were so popular before that older relatives constantly sing them. Otherwise, the contestants may not recognize the melody or the meaning of the words.

The simplest and at the same time famous music competition is “Guess the Melody”. To do this, you need to stock up on music from which the words have been removed.

If there are many older guests at the wedding, then preference is given to Russian-language songs that were popular 10-20 years ago.

But if the holiday is created for young people, then you should choose modern songs, foreign or domestic.
National compositions that are well known enough to be able to guess their motive are also good. It is better not to use melodies from rap, most often they are very similar to each other. In such songs, the emphasis is on words, so the arrangement is rather sparse and can mislead guests.

The second competition that both guests and newlyweds will enjoy is “Remember the Song.”

To do this, several teams are created that must take turns singing the words of a composition on a given topic. Those who remember the most songs will win.

Topics for the competition:

wedding songs;
where they sing about love;
those that mention the names of the newlyweds;
telling about the profession of the newlyweds (if it is popular).

This competition has a more difficult version in which guests are divided into two teams and must remember opposing concepts.

The first group remembers words about everything “very, very big”, the other – small.

For any celebration

Dancing is an integral part of any wedding. Guests can simply dance or take part in a fun musical competition.

Dancing on the newspaper. Participants are divided into pairs; each couple dances on a newspaper laid out on the floor. Gradually the task becomes more complicated - the newspaper is folded first 2 times, then 4 times. A team that leaves the “field” is eliminated from the competition.
Dances of the peoples of the world. Usually, 2 teams of 3-4 participants each are selected for this competition. They must dance to the music of different countries and styles - Lezginka, tap dancing, gypsy dance, hula, etc. In addition, the presenter gives the dancers additional props - for example, flippers.
Dancing on command. Participants are divided into pairs, and the leader commands what they need to do in the dance - for example, connect their right legs, press back to back, take their partner’s right ear with their left hand, etc.

Cool harmless competitions for everyone

25 compliments

All guests of the holiday should be divided into 2 teams and each should be given a blank sheet of paper. In 2.5 minutes, each team must write 25 compliments on their sheet. After this, the presenter selects the sheets and compares the inscriptions on them, crossing out identical compliments. The team that writes the most original congratulations is declared the winner.

Connection

There are also competitions for the birthday boy, in which he takes part along with the invited guests, and here he gets the main role. The birthday boy is seated in the center of the room on a chair or at the head of the table, so that from there he can see everyone gathered. Only the host stands behind him and from there shows the guests cards with some facts (“wears a suit,” “gave birth to twins,” “traveled abroad,” “rides a bicycle,” etc.) concerning someone of those present. The one to whom this fact applies must rise from his seat, and there may be several such people. The birthday boy’s task is to understand what fact connects these people.

find me

The presenter should distribute pieces of paper to everyone present at the birthday party, on which they must give a description of their appearance. After this, all the leaves are collected in a box or bag. The presenter takes the first piece of paper out of the box, reads it out, and everyone tries to guess who this description fits. Each contest participant has only one attempt for each description. The one who can identify the most guests from their descriptions wins the competition.

Magic ball

This modern birthday competition is a bit like the American habit of wrapping small gifts in many large boxes. Well, we can transfer this tradition as a joke to our holiday. To do this, we will make a “magic” ball.

First you need to prepare: find short riddles and write them on scraps of paper. Then you need to take a small souvenir and wrap it in foil. Attach a piece of paper with a riddle to the foil with tape. Then wrap the gift again with another layer of foil and attach another riddle to it again. The result of such layers should be at least 6-7. In this case, the most difficult riddle should be in the depths, and the simplest one on the outside.

Next, you need to cast lots to see who will be the first to begin unwrapping the resulting magic ball. Having removed the first layer of foil, the first participant gets to the first riddle, which he must solve in 5 seconds. If he fails, then everyone else comes to his aid, and the one who does it first gets the right to remove the next layer of foil and guess the second riddle. In the end, whoever solves the last riddle wins this prize.

Guess it

Such competitions for adults are quite acceptable at a children's birthday party. Guests should be divided into two teams, which should be seated on opposite sides of the table. Determine a leader for each team. The first team must think of a word on a topic related to the birthday celebration, and its leader must secretly tell this word to the leader of the opposing team. He should try to portray this word to his team with facial expressions and gestures. Players can ask him questions, but the host can only nod yes or no.

You can guess the word within 3 minutes, and if it remains unguessed, the team is punished with a phantom, for example, by singing a song in honor of the birthday person.

How to use?

An object is placed on the table in front of the competition participants. Next, they take turns to come up with a real action that can be performed with this object. The player who could not come up with the next application is eliminated from the competition. In the end, there is only one winner.

Conductor

The leading “conductor” distributes cards with the names of cities to all players - “tickets” with destinations. He then starts asking if the player knows what country his city is in. If he answers correctly, then the conductor punches his ticket. The winner is the “traveler” who collected the most composted tickets.

For a themed celebration

Recently, themed celebrations have come into fashion - weddings in a certain color or style. If you are planning to hold just such a celebration, at least some of the music competitions should be related to the chosen topic.

Important! When choosing a wedding venue, pay special attention to the size of the hall and the availability of free space for dances and competitions, because some of them may require a large area. By the way, in this article we have collected the best song competitions.

Show your imagination! For any wedding in retro style, you can hold a competition related to the musical traditions of the chosen era. For a wedding in a certain color - sing or dance to those songs that mention the desired color or objects of this color.

A wedding in a nautical style, a pirate wedding, a wedding in the “Scarlet Sails” style give a lot of scope for imagination - after all, there are a lot of songs related to the sea. Having decided on the theme, think about how to connect musical accompaniment and music competitions at the wedding with it.

Tips for choosing

Focus on the musical preferences of your guests. If this is a youth wedding, then it is hardly worth including accordion songs or Russian folk songs in the program. This kind of competition might go off with a bang once, but it’s unlikely to happen again.
Keep it in moderation. Competitions are rightly considered the best entertainment for any wedding, but if you force guests to complete tasks for a long time without a break, it can cause dissatisfaction.
It is ideal to include game blocks of 15-20 minutes in the program (2-3 competitions, no more) with breaks for dancing, toasts and everything else. But even if on paper everything seemed ideal, but in fact the guests are already tired and are performing tasks “under pressure” - a good host should immediately change the program, because his main task at any wedding is to maintain a good mood among everyone present, not allow irritation or boredom to occur.
Say no to platitudes. Everyone knows the traditional wedding competitions that have long set their teeth on edge: if you attend 10 different weddings, at 8-9 of them the program may consist of 90% of the same “terribly funny” tasks.
Don’t be lazy and find original ideas for competitions for your wedding - your guests will thank you for it.
For competitions where participants must guess the melody or sing a song, choose only well-known musical compositions in Russian. Prepare microphones, soundtracks, tape recorder, etc. in advance. Check that everything works without failures or hiccups. Don't forget to also prepare prizes for the winners.

Some useful tips

In order for wedding song competitions to go off with a bang and bring maximum fun to everyone, you need to take into account the characteristics of the company:

average age;
social status;
general mood.

Even nationality matters. For example, in a Muslim company, those songs that glorify Christianity will not be entirely appropriate.

Also remember a few rules:

It is better not to hold song competitions without a toastmaster; this is a rather subtle form of entertainment that requires a professional approach. Read about how to organize a fun wedding without a host;
do not force anyone to perform songs - people may not be in the mood or simply shy;
prefer live music to equipment;
songs must be neutral - no politics, religious overtones or ridicule of certain nations;
You should not include in competitions works that are unfamiliar to a wide range of people;
always reward competition participants with a prize, even if it is simple applause.

The last point is especially important. The fact is that guests who go to sing perceive this event as a competition, a demonstration of their own abilities. And each of them subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) considers himself better than the rest. Don't let people lose faith in their own abilities, otherwise their mood will deteriorate.

So, we looked at the most popular and interesting song competitions that will be relevant at any wedding. Try to include as many guests as possible so that no one feels left out or forgotten. A cheerful song at a wedding is a guarantee of cheerfulness and good mood. If everything goes well, the event will be remembered for many years!

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Summary

Time will pass and guests will forget how many salads and hot dishes were on the menu at your wedding, but they will never forget what emotions they felt that day. Ultimately, this is why newlyweds spend time and money on organizing a wedding banquet instead of just going and signing at the registry office.

The bride and groom want to make a holiday for themselves and give it to others. A good mood is the only thing that matters at any wedding. Interesting and fun music competitions for weddings for guests and newlyweds will help you create the right atmosphere and hold the celebration at the highest level.

Andrey Andreev

Wedding planner and wedding photography guru

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Competitions: musical and dance competitions at weddings

Well, what kind of wedding can take place without dancing until you drop? Why not make real competitions out of ordinary dances. It is best to involve young people in these competitions, since they are the most active and less shy.

Make 2 teams. One group is boys, the second is girls. The task of the guys is to depict how the girls dance, and the young ladies show the men. Then ask the teams to come up with a dance that they will give to the young spouses.

Give them time and the opportunity to choose the music themselves. Make a reservation that the presentation should not be long and complicated. Send the groom to dance along with the guys. And let the bride go to the young ladies. Then they will be able to make truly fiery and energetic numbers.