Wedding Favors- Tips In Keeping Your Guests Entertained & Happy
We've all been to "one of those weddings"
We've all been to "one of those weddings". The types where you need to amuse yourself between the ceremony and the reception because they're hours apart or you get yourself stuck in a receiving line that never ends. To keep friends and family happy rather than gritting their teeth in frustration, here are some tips for brides and grooms to consider during the wedding planning stages.
Be considerate of friends and family concerning their time. Remember, some of them may need to pay for babysitters and can not afford to purchase an entire day attending a wedding and reception. Plan on having your wedding photos done before the ceremony when everyone in the wedding party is searching fresh. This will permit you to move smoothly from the ceremony to the reception with only a short travel time in between (assuming the reception is being held in a unique location). Your wedding guests will be very appreciative.
Traditionally, the bride, groom and wedding party stand in a receiving line so that guests can wish them well. Consider dropping this custom if you have invited a bunch of guests to your ceremony. It is very time consuming and most people do not even know a good portion of the wedding party. As well, youll always have "chatters" that will hold the line up, causing the guests behind them to become impatient. Most people really only want to congratulate the bride and groom and move on. If you insist on a receiving line, keep it minimal. Have only the bride; groom and parents receive the guests, rather than the whole wedding party.
If your wedding is being held on a Friday or Saturday, then this usually doesn't cause much of a problem. However, if your wedding is being held on a Sunday evening or a weekday, keep in mind that people need to get up to go to work the next day.
Tight timing is important here if you are including a dinner and dance reception. It would be best if the ceremony and the reception are being held in one location to cut out travel time.
Family and friends expect drinks to be free as part of the reception. As a couple, including the cost of liquor should be a part of your wedding budget. On the other hand, if guests need to pay for their drinks, they tend to drink a bunch less and it may help curb somebody from putting forth effort to drive home drunk. Free flowing drinks can also cause other problems like disorderly drunkenness where guests are dancing on the tables or possible fights breaking out. So whether to have a money bar or a free bar is something the bride and groom will need to carefully consider. A possible solution to this is to include one or two bottles of cry per dinner table and have a money bar during the dance.
As the evening progresses, people tend to drink more. It would be best to ask anybody who is to give a speech or toast to keep their drinking to a minimum (or not to drink at all) until they have presented their speech and to do so early into the reception. Once people get drinking, their tongues tend to get looser and they may say things that are not appropriate during their speech if they have consumed too much liquor.
by: Michael SeoVida Francis
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