A wedding is a special day for which you need to carefully prepare. Huge expenses are always associated with this event, so many try to save money. The easiest way to reduce financial costs is to reduce the number of guests.
To make a wedding memorable, it is not at all necessary to invite all your friends and strangers. It’s enough to just hold a family holiday, where only your closest and dearest people will be. And to make the celebration special, it is worth including in the program original competitions for a small wedding, which are a must-have entertainment for guests.
Organization rules
In order for everything to go well and the event to leave only the most pleasant impressions, it is necessary to take into account some nuances.
If the newlyweds decide to do without a professional toastmaster, it is worth finding a relative or several who can replace the leader of the feast. These people should be responsible for such responsibilities as decorating the hall, preparing competitions and choosing musical accompaniment. When planning an event, you need to take into account that the ages of the guests will be different, and everyone will want to take part in the fun. Therefore, competitions should be varied .
Important! The competition program should be designed not only for guests.
Newlyweds must participate in at least a third of all events. However, not in all of them, otherwise they will be tired long before the end of the evening, and their own wedding will not be a joy. When discussing a wedding and developing a competition program, it is necessary to take into account the number of guests. If there are a lot of invitees, you should choose competitions where you can participate in teams. Moreover, do not forget about the amount of free space. If it is limited, excessively mobile and active trials should not be included in the scenario.
First, you should take care of the decor of the room and organize a place where the fun will take place. You should immediately prepare props for competitions. Among other things, the person in charge must deal with the banquet - menu, seating arrangements, etc.
The organizer of the celebration must take into account that a small wedding indicates the desire of the bride and groom to save money and simply have a pleasant time with loved ones. Therefore, you should not spend money on expensive props. Competitions should be interesting and fun, but not vulgar or intrusive. After them, the participants should be in a better mood, even if they lose.
Also, correctly selected music always adds positivity. It is needed not only for dancing and a good mood, but also for competitions that will be more interesting with musical accompaniment.
Interesting for a small company
You can come up with a lot of different things to entertain your guests. However, when it comes to a modest event, most likely, the space for entertainment will be limited. Therefore, you should choose a competition program that can be easily implemented even on a few square meters.
Clothespins
There is no need to worry about props for this competition, as all you need to do is stock up on a couple of packs of colored clothespins. 2-4 couples take part in the competition. The men are given the same number of clothespins. The women's task will be to remove them as quickly as possible. Music plays during the competition. She stops when the first pair completes the task.
Kisses
During the wedding celebration, neither the guests nor the newlyweds should be bored. Therefore, it is imperative to prepare competitions for the bride and groom. One of them may be the “Kissing” competition.
The main participant here will be the bride. She is blindfolded with a scarf. She is then kissed on the cheek. She must guess when exactly her husband will kiss her. This is not just a competition, but a practical joke, since every time the husband will leave kisses on the girl’s cheek.
Change the diaper
You can hold a competition for men present of any age and marital status. 4-6 people can participate simultaneously. The participation of a newly-made husband is not prohibited. Everyone is given a toy baby doll and one diaper. The participants' task will be to put it on correctly. A team of women can monitor the speed and quality of task completion.
Advice! It is desirable that these are representatives of the fair sex who already have children.
Swaddle the baby
You can hold another competition with baby dolls in diapers, but this time for women. Their task will be to swaddle the babies in a diaper, and then tie a beautiful bow on top. The audience can evaluate the quality of the task through applause.
the Forbidden fruit
This competition does not require a large amount of free space or expensive props, so it fully meets the requirements of a small and economical wedding. It will require 3-4 pairs of participants. Their task will be to eat an apple that is suspended on a thread.
Fruits can be hung on partitions, if there are any in the room, or you can simply ask distinguished guests to hold the threads. There will be one pair for one apple. Whoever completes the task faster wins. This competition is interesting and fun, but it must be supplemented with high-quality musical accompaniment.
Candy trap
This table wedding competition for a small company will only require the organizer to purchase a couple of kilograms of sweets. All participants take turns taking as many candies from the bag as they want. The catch is that most will try to grab more sweets.
But after everyone has sweets in their hands, the host announces that for each sweet the participant must tell something interesting about the groom or the bride. This competition will allow two families to become much closer.
Mummy
Even if the space for celebration is quite small, you should not refuse dynamic competitions, for which a couple of square meters are enough. “The Mummy” could be such a competition. This is a well-known fun with using toilet paper.
There must be an even number of participants so that they can be divided into pairs. The men stand motionless while the women wrap toilet paper around them from head to toe. At the same time, you need to complete the task quickly and efficiently. The organizer will only need 3-4 rolls of paper , which is not divided by a tear line to make wrapping more convenient, as well as excellent musical accompaniment.
How to decorate a wedding table
The decoration of the festive table should be combined with the overall style planned for the wedding. Typically, a wedding celebration at a dacha is planned to be held in a rustic style, that is, organizing a party as close to nature as possible. Decorating a wedding at a dacha in the chosen style involves excluding pomp and frills from the celebration. There should be more natural and natural accessories on the table: you can cover the tables with embroidered towels, more pottery, make bouquets of wildflowers. Seating for guests can be made from seasonal fruits, for example, attaching a leaf with the name of the guest to an apple - it will look unusual and summery.
All this also applies to treats - more dishes that are simple and understandable. Pickled cucumbers and tomatoes, sauerkraut, filled pancakes, pies are appropriate, and instead of a multi-tiered cake, a delicious loaf stuffed with berries or fruits. Alcohol at such a wedding can be represented by mead, pepper, moonshine, and homemade wine. To quench your thirst, kvass, fruit drinks, homemade lemonade and mineral water should be offered. To avoid the hassle of cooking and serving guests, it is better for the hosts of the celebration to hire waiters from the restaurant and use their cooking. Modern restaurants and cafes provide such services.
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Who can be a toastmaster?
If the bride and groom are planning to save money and do not want to have a lavish wedding, then there is no point in inviting a professional toastmaster. An active relative can handle a couple of dozen guests. In every family there is an organizer who can say a good toast and hold an interesting competition.
Important! You shouldn’t put everything on the shoulders of one person. Organizing a wedding will be flawless if we act together. One can handle the banquet, another can prepare competitions and props, and relatives with artistic talent can decorate the room.
The organization of a wedding also includes such events as the first dance of the newlyweds, presentation of gifts, fundraising, etc. All these points should be taken into account by the person who will be the main coordinator of the wedding. Therefore, you should entrust this important role only to the most responsible relative or loved one.
Sample menu for a wedding at home for 10 people
When a wedding is organized at home, the issue of menu and food preparation should be carefully discussed in advance. It is recommended to hire a chef who will prepare dishes for your holiday, and the bride, her mother and future mother-in-law will be able to enjoy the long-awaited day, and not stand at the stove. The same goes for service. One waiter is enough to serve, set the table, and serve dishes for the feast. The wedding feast menu should contain the following types of dishes:
- 3-5 types of cold appetizers, including salads;
- a plate of vegetables, cheese and cold cuts;
- two types of hot dishes (fish and meat) with side dishes;
- hot snack;
- fruits;
- dessert – wedding cake (calculation 150 g/person) – about 2 kg.
Cold appetizers for a home wedding:
- stuffed fish;
- slicing (meat, vegetables, cheese, fish);
- meatloaf;
- aspic;
- Greek salad";
- Caesar salad"
- meat salad.
Hot appetizers for a wedding:
- julienne with chicken and mushrooms;
- pancakes with meat.
Wedding hot dishes:
- grilled fish with vegetable puree;
- French meat with eggplant;
- chicken kebab on skewers with a side dish of broccoli and cauliflower.
Without toastmaster
Even if the bride and groom do not want to organize a magnificent event for their wedding, there should be at least some entertainment. Many modern weddings do without a banquet or feast at all. But even here you can include several competitions in the program.
A wedding celebration is not complete without a bride price. And here you can hold several interesting competitions for which you don’t need a toastmaster. All you need to do is cut out the feet from paper. On one side write questions that concern the bride. And spread your feet on the steps. The groom must climb the stairs while answering questions. If he finds it difficult to answer, he will have to pay.
There are many wedding competitions at the table for a small company that do not require a professional host. In the middle of the evening, when the guests are already urgently demanding fun, you can sing, but in the form of a competition. For example, the male part of the guests sings any line from a song, and the female part responds with a line from another piece of music. For example: “Well, where are you girls?” - “We are going to the emerald city along a difficult road...”, etc.
Without a toastmaster, you can also hold art competitions. All you need is a few markers, sheets of paper and bandages, as participants will draw with their eyes closed. The tasks can be anything, for example, you can draw a bride and groom. The competition is judged by the applause of the audience.
Attention! When organizing a wedding celebration, you should carefully consider the entire program. It is advisable to stock up on props in such quantities that there is enough for everyone to participate in competitions. Don't forget that winners need prizes. These don't have to be expensive gifts. You can even get by with commemorative paper medals. The main thing is that the participants’ mood improves after each competition.
An organizer without experience in holding such events should learn several important rules:
- First of all, in no case should you invite a person to participate in the competition who categorically refuses to do so;
- There is no need to organize long competitions that require a lot of effort;
- One test should take no more than 15 minutes;
- There should always be a long pause between competitions.
Photo zone in the yard
You can decorate it with artificial flowers, or you can take care of it in advance and grow climbing plants and flowers, and add a few accents to this hedge in the form of ribbons, small lanterns and garlands, so that the photographs will turn out not only during the day, but also in the evening.
As a fashionable and bright accent, you can use 1-3 large artificial flowers made of crepe paper. You can not limit yourself to one photo zone, but make two or three, for different times of the day.
For evening photographs, you can use small jars with lit candles inside. Such jars can be hung on ropes of different lengths, or they can be randomly placed on a small table, and supplemented with details like an old candlestick, a tattered book, and other vintage attributes.
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