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Entertaining your guests should not be a priority that is overlooked when planning your wedding. There are several ways to please your guests while still maintaining your budget!

YOUR DJ

Reception entertainment, whether a live band or a DJ, can take your reception from a hum drum dinner into an evening everyone will remember! Some DJs will get out into the crowd and do a lot of the entertaining for you! Through songs, a group dance, or a break-dancing contest the DJ you hire can have a big impact on your reception’s success. Speaking with your DJ, and having him or her get to know you and your fiance, can create a personal touch to your wedding, and will allow your DJ to know what songs to disc, and which songs to ditch!

WEDDING I SPY

This is a wonderful way to get extra photos from your wedding. Ask your guests to use their digital cameras or smartphones to capture the moments even the best photographers sometimes miss.

YARD GAMES

For outdoor weddings consider a beanbag toss, ring toss, giant jenga, ladder golf, horseshoes, or croquet.

THE SHOE GAME

The “Shoe Game” is a great ice breaker, and gets a lot of laughs! Set two chairs back to back in the middle of the dance floor and ask the bride and groom to take a seat. Have the maid-of-honor remove both the groom’s shoes and the best man remove the bride’s; then give them each a shoe of theirs and one of their spouse.

Then the DJ announces “This game is to show how much the new Mr./Mrs. John and Jane Doe really know about each other… I will ask you a question and you raise the shoe that you think best fits the answer to the question…his shoe for him and her shoe for her.”
Sometimes the bride will put up her shoe, and the groom will put up his, and the guests will roar. This can also be done with parents of the bride or groom or other guests. The trick is, do not let the couple know the questions ahead of time.