I forgot that was a thing! I'll have to look at that because I love planning things and forgot it was an actual job. It's probably mostly freelance but still
@@elizabethsmith955 event planning businesses are a thing. They can be big with 20+ people, a smaller team, or just one person. Do a search for event planners or wedding planners near you to get an idea of what there is.
Done a few weddings, yard games are very popular but not as popular as the giant person sized gold frames covered in flowers that the guests use as photo props. We prop them up against trees outside and keeps the guests occupied for ages.
We did teams and single use cameras with little tasks of what they needed to take photos of. It worked really well with our families especially considering they didn't speak each other's language (tasks were bilingual). Everyone really enjoyed it. Also, we got all the photos and I wouldn't want to miss any of those because they're some of the funniest I've ever seen! Plus, we saved money on a wedding photographer.
Our wedding was at an art gallery. Our guest were supposed to be able to walk through it and admire the art (Chihuly glass sculptures, etc) but no one directed them...no one told them they could. So only a handful of people I told even went through the gallery! Grrrr...we were taking pictures. No one said anything! 🙄
Omg a wedding at an art gallery is like a dream, especially with Chihuly glass sculptures!!! I would have been walking around the gallery and maybe forgot why we were there, any excuse to embrace some art!
A jigsaw puzzle table - you can order a custom puzzle with your photo on it. You can encourage guests to sign pieces too! Would be very cute and a unique activity. Just know that putting 1 500 piece puzzle with another person takes about 2-3 hours if neither of the people are experienced puzzlers:)
My only concern is that the table sign thing isn’t very accessible. Many people can’t see well enough to decipher stuff like that, and honestly even if they can it might just make them anxious lol
I have a way to improve. You have that, but another that's smaller that someone can look at that's not like that, but it's around the corner and the bride and groom can tell guests that would benefit from it and still have the "fun" one. (It doesn't seem fun for me, patterns and repeated lines make me dizzy and my friends wouldn't care if it was like and just sit wherever which is understandable)
Also your ideas are so fun! I’ve been to a couple of weddings and they were almost identical even tho they were planned by different people and those weddings were kinda boring. So if one day someone proposes to me I’m I will be obsessing over your channel so my wedding will hopefully be unique and fun!!
At my best friend wedding, I gave her an idea of doing a table for games so people who didn’t want to dance or needed a break from dancing could still do something fun. We found the games at dollar tree. Also mess free coloring books for kids a big hit too!
"Picture me standing awkwardly in the corner because I don't know anyone, and everyone else is treating this like a family reunion" THIS WAS MY BEST FRIEND'S RECEPTION (they didn't have a public wedding). I literally knew three people there-- 1) the bride 2) the groom 3) the bride's sister 80% of it was the groom's family and at least 2/3 of said family was 40+ (I was 27). The bride and groom were doing their job being hosts, while the bride's sis was following her boyfriend around like a lost puppy. I came for an hour, had cake, had a very awkward conversation with an older woman (no clue who she was) who tried to pawn more cake off on me, and then promptly told the bride (my connection) that I was leaving. She took a break from the barrage of people by showing me to my car. Even the awkward attempts of "oh hello, I'm so-n-so, who are you?" died after little more than saying what we did for a living. If there hadn't been live music, I don't think I would have lasted that hour. That was by far the most excluded I have ever felt and I will never breathe a word of it to either one of them.
I just went to a wedding where the couple LOVES games, so in addition to small games on the tables (tiny boggle, miniature jenga...) They had a mystery you had to solve, with paper clues, scissors, and tape, the order the tables solved it in was the order released to the bugget 😂 (excluding the families). It was one of the most fun weddings I'be ever been to.
I highly, highly disagree with complicated seating charts if you have a large amount of older people. We just had names with the table number on cards clothes pinned up on a board and it was the biggest hold up and some of the older people just walked off. It was seriously not difficult to find their name but I got comments from close family afterwards about it. The younger people had no issue, so pay attention to the ratio in your personal guest list before doing anything too 'fun'.
Our DJ sang during cocktails, people drank and chatted. It was a smaller to-do than originally planned due to covid so they were also happy to see people again. Bonus, our theme was books and there were several at each table as decor. My grandfather picked one up as a joke and then got quite invested in it.
The best thing we did to keep our guests from getting bored was doing pictures beforehand and keeping the entire event (ceremony and reception) about 3/3.5 hours long with a well paced schedule. Not for everyone, but for us and our people it worked great!
You should make a video of what your wedding would look like if you had all the money in the world. Oooo or a wedding March madness chart where you chose the best wedding items/ideas.
I figured guests needed something to do - but had to be able to do it in dresses and suits -so I set up croquet games, and horseshoes. Then people could play - and get to know each other - but not get sweaty or dirty.
When you mentioned activities in your previous video I got scared 😅 I wouldn't like anyone to feel as embarrassed and pressured as I do to sing at a karaoke or take a forced dance class 😅😅
can you explain your dream wedding and wedding aesthetic and stuff? unless you haven’t already? it doesn’t have to be everything but you explain so much and i wanna hear some stuff that you’d like for your wedding!
We had a bouncey castle and boardgames as we had a ton of kids and my husband and I had gaming nights every week. This also gave people something to do between ceremony and reception while we took photos
Just be careful with the campaign table, from working at weddings I know you usually aren’t allowed alcohol into the room of service and if the officiate isn’t certain that both people in the wedding pair aren’t sober then they are allowed to refuse to marry the pair. This is English rule and may be different elsewhere, a wedding has to be two people who are in their full honest minds. Also can be different if you have someone register to officiate for your wedding, like a friend or family member. I’ve seen too many weddings where everyone is throwing back drinks so the ceremony can begin
My friend had red betta fish as part of the centerpieces (dont judge because it was the late 90s, so a different time). I took home the one on my table and had him for 8 years. Surprising because the average lifespan is 3-5 years.
Would love more ideas for table games or something!! My wedding is in a month 😱!!! Would love ideas for things people can do while sitting at the tables (groups of 5-6)
my dream wedding is me and my partner taking our best friends who are dating on vacation finding a beautiful spot and having a ceremony there. the rest of the activities is whatever the heck we feel like doing on the vacation and it's a built in honeymoon since we're already there together
My cousin got married a few years ago back when corn hole was really popular, and she asked my dad to make her and her husband a corn hole game for people to play at the reception, that doubled as part of our gift to them. It was personalized too with their names on it and my mom made the bean bags
Honestly I love this idea, i felt a lot of anxiety at my first wedding because I knew my partners family but id only ever met them a few times over the years because we're long distance So suffice it to say when the dancing and chatting started and my date was busy chatting up other family i was feeling very anxious and unsure of what to do or who to talk to, thankfully everyone was super nice but im definitely taking notes for my own wedding!
I went to a wedding in the Northwest Territories and we shot guns at balloons in the water and went fishing for dinner almost everyday. Best experience of my life.
We had two sets of cornhole (which we built together ourselves before the wedding as a fun date night), a giant connect four, trivial pursuit cards on the table, as well as a station to leave us notes for our X anniversaries.
We’re doing karaoke at the end of the night when everyone is well and drunk 😄 my fiancé and I are both singers and we thought it would be an awesome unique idea!
We’re getting married at a castle and are organizing walking tours for the time between cake and dinner. We’ve also hired two drag queens and a DJ who will be entertaining the guests during the party!
When I get married if my partner also wears a dress we could go black and white like that couple on the internet but if they wear a suit they can wear a tie that matches my dress color or whatever bc I’m not going to force my ideas over theirs bc we are a team❤I’m not a bridezilla😂 I’m open to my partners ideas too😊 it’s not just my day it’s theirs to ❤
Best LGBT+ wedding tips? I don't know when but my partner had started talking about rings so i need to get the ideas flowing! Both of us are trans (myself ftm she is mtf)
“I don’t know all my wedding guests that well” right, that’s probably because it’s the grooms family and believe it or not men should participate in writing thank you notes for THEIR wedding
One thing I've wondered about is: how people have the Mr and Mrs things, I prefer to use the Mx honorific, but I do use Mr sometimes, so would it be better to go with Mr or Mx?
I don’t understand having people you don’t like know at your wedding? There was another video that was like I don’t want a party favor with your name on it I don’t care it’s like… people that don’t care shouldn’t be there? If I don’t give enough of a shit about you to care why are you paying for me to eat and drink. Makes no sense
There is no way to know your partner's entire family unless you've been together for upwards of 5 years and have attended many of their family events together. Otherwise there is alot of unknown but important people.
You are making me want to be an event planner so badly 😂
I forgot that was a thing! I'll have to look at that because I love planning things and forgot it was an actual job. It's probably mostly freelance but still
@@elizabethsmith955 event planning businesses are a thing. They can be big with 20+ people, a smaller team, or just one person. Do a search for event planners or wedding planners near you to get an idea of what there is.
Done a few weddings, yard games are very popular but not as popular as the giant person sized gold frames covered in flowers that the guests use as photo props. We prop them up against trees outside and keeps the guests occupied for ages.
We did teams and single use cameras with little tasks of what they needed to take photos of. It worked really well with our families especially considering they didn't speak each other's language (tasks were bilingual). Everyone really enjoyed it. Also, we got all the photos and I wouldn't want to miss any of those because they're some of the funniest I've ever seen! Plus, we saved money on a wedding photographer.
Our wedding was at an art gallery. Our guest were supposed to be able to walk through it and admire the art (Chihuly glass sculptures, etc) but no one directed them...no one told them they could. So only a handful of people I told even went through the gallery! Grrrr...we were taking pictures. No one said anything! 🙄
Omg a wedding at an art gallery is like a dream, especially with Chihuly glass sculptures!!! I would have been walking around the gallery and maybe forgot why we were there, any excuse to embrace some art!
A jigsaw puzzle table - you can order a custom puzzle with your photo on it. You can encourage guests to sign pieces too! Would be very cute and a unique activity. Just know that putting 1 500 piece puzzle with another person takes about 2-3 hours if neither of the people are experienced puzzlers:)
My only concern is that the table sign thing isn’t very accessible. Many people can’t see well enough to decipher stuff like that, and honestly even if they can it might just make them anxious lol
I have a way to improve. You have that, but another that's smaller that someone can look at that's not like that, but it's around the corner and the bride and groom can tell guests that would benefit from it and still have the "fun" one. (It doesn't seem fun for me, patterns and repeated lines make me dizzy and my friends wouldn't care if it was like and just sit wherever which is understandable)
You don’t have to make your wedding accessible to every person on the planet. You have to know your guests.
Also your ideas are so fun! I’ve been to a couple of weddings and they were almost identical even tho they were planned by different people and those weddings were kinda boring.
So if one day someone proposes to me I’m I will be obsessing over your channel so my wedding will hopefully be unique and fun!!
At my best friend wedding, I gave her an idea of doing a table for games so people who didn’t want to dance or needed a break from dancing could still do something fun. We found the games at dollar tree. Also mess free coloring books for kids a big hit too!
"Picture me standing awkwardly in the corner because I don't know anyone, and everyone else is treating this like a family reunion"
THIS WAS MY BEST FRIEND'S RECEPTION (they didn't have a public wedding).
I literally knew three people there--
1) the bride
2) the groom
3) the bride's sister
80% of it was the groom's family and at least 2/3 of said family was 40+ (I was 27). The bride and groom were doing their job being hosts, while the bride's sis was following her boyfriend around like a lost puppy. I came for an hour, had cake, had a very awkward conversation with an older woman (no clue who she was) who tried to pawn more cake off on me, and then promptly told the bride (my connection) that I was leaving. She took a break from the barrage of people by showing me to my car. Even the awkward attempts of "oh hello, I'm so-n-so, who are you?" died after little more than saying what we did for a living. If there hadn't been live music, I don't think I would have lasted that hour.
That was by far the most excluded I have ever felt and I will never breathe a word of it to either one of them.
I was in my aunt's wedding and she had a bunch of jumbo yard games like Jenga and Yahtzee and they made them themselves so it didn't cost much!
I just went to a wedding where the couple LOVES games, so in addition to small games on the tables (tiny boggle, miniature jenga...) They had a mystery you had to solve, with paper clues, scissors, and tape, the order the tables solved it in was the order released to the bugget 😂 (excluding the families). It was one of the most fun weddings I'be ever been to.
I highly, highly disagree with complicated seating charts if you have a large amount of older people. We just had names with the table number on cards clothes pinned up on a board and it was the biggest hold up and some of the older people just walked off. It was seriously not difficult to find their name but I got comments from close family afterwards about it. The younger people had no issue, so pay attention to the ratio in your personal guest list before doing anything too 'fun'.
Our DJ sang during cocktails, people drank and chatted. It was a smaller to-do than originally planned due to covid so they were also happy to see people again. Bonus, our theme was books and there were several at each table as decor. My grandfather picked one up as a joke and then got quite invested in it.
The best thing we did to keep our guests from getting bored was doing pictures beforehand and keeping the entire event (ceremony and reception) about 3/3.5 hours long with a well paced schedule. Not for everyone, but for us and our people it worked great!
You should make a video of what your wedding would look like if you had all the money in the world. Oooo or a wedding March madness chart where you chose the best wedding items/ideas.
I figured guests needed something to do - but had to be able to do it in dresses and suits -so I set up croquet games, and horseshoes. Then people could play - and get to know each other - but not get sweaty or dirty.
When you mentioned activities in your previous video I got scared 😅 I wouldn't like anyone to feel as embarrassed and pressured as I do to sing at a karaoke or take a forced dance class 😅😅
I do not plan to have a wedding but you kinda make me want to lol 😅
can you explain your dream wedding and wedding aesthetic and stuff? unless you haven’t already? it doesn’t have to be everything but you explain so much and i wanna hear some stuff that you’d like for your wedding!
Me. I've decided to not go to anymore weddings unless it's super close family because I don't really like drinking
this is like a perfect "work friends party" hack thank you!!!
We had a ton of games on the table with four guest book! Most of our reception was filled with ultra competitive blokus and cribbage matches. So fun
Lol I have that same shirt love it
We had a bouncey castle and boardgames as we had a ton of kids and my husband and I had gaming nights every week. This also gave people something to do between ceremony and reception while we took photos
Just be careful with the campaign table, from working at weddings I know you usually aren’t allowed alcohol into the room of service and if the officiate isn’t certain that both people in the wedding pair aren’t sober then they are allowed to refuse to marry the pair. This is English rule and may be different elsewhere, a wedding has to be two people who are in their full honest minds. Also can be different if you have someone register to officiate for your wedding, like a friend or family member. I’ve seen too many weddings where everyone is throwing back drinks so the ceremony can begin
Consider sparkling cider if there’s gonna be kids showing up so they aren’t left out? It’s also cheaper.
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My friend had red betta fish as part of the centerpieces (dont judge because it was the late 90s, so a different time). I took home the one on my table and had him for 8 years. Surprising because the average lifespan is 3-5 years.
My cousin had a Mac and cheese bar at her pre ceremony thing and it was everyone’s favorite part. Should have been the main meal XD
Would love more ideas for table games or something!! My wedding is in a month 😱!!! Would love ideas for things people can do while sitting at the tables (groups of 5-6)
Early! Also yes, we want MORE
I’m not planning a wedding, I’m not a photographer - but you’re nice to listen to and I can’t stop watching your videos 🤷🏻♀️🫶🏻
my dream wedding is me and my partner taking our best friends who are dating on vacation finding a beautiful spot and having a ceremony there. the rest of the activities is whatever the heck we feel like doing on the vacation and it's a built in honeymoon since we're already there together
YES! we need ALL your tips 😁😁
Can you do The Lost Boys (1987) as a wedding theme?
I had Legos on all the tables, I had mad lips on each place setting.
My cousin got married a few years ago back when corn hole was really popular, and she asked my dad to make her and her husband a corn hole game for people to play at the reception, that doubled as part of our gift to them. It was personalized too with their names on it and my mom made the bean bags
Honestly I love this idea, i felt a lot of anxiety at my first wedding because I knew my partners family but id only ever met them a few times over the years because we're long distance
So suffice it to say when the dancing and chatting started and my date was busy chatting up other family i was feeling very anxious and unsure of what to do or who to talk to, thankfully everyone was super nice but im definitely taking notes for my own wedding!
I went to a wedding in the Northwest Territories and we shot guns at balloons in the water and went fishing for dinner almost everyday. Best experience of my life.
Could you please explain what the interactive table thing is
I think it's just a different way to show people which table they'll be seated at.. you find your name and follow the line to your set table number
I think she means like mad libs or another type of game.
We had two sets of cornhole (which we built together ourselves before the wedding as a fun date night), a giant connect four, trivial pursuit cards on the table, as well as a station to leave us notes for our X anniversaries.
Idk why but I have the same shirt as her and when I saw her wearing it I was so happy😂💕
These are the most important things 🎉
If your guest gave you a gift you should write individual thank you notes.
I had my reception at a bowling alley and kids got to go bowling
Went to a wedding with corn hole and it rocked!
YES PLEASE am trying to be introvert friendly😫
What about vowel renewals??? Any suggestions??
We’re doing karaoke at the end of the night when everyone is well and drunk 😄 my fiancé and I are both singers and we thought it would be an awesome unique idea!
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We’re getting married at a castle and are organizing walking tours for the time between cake and dinner. We’ve also hired two drag queens and a DJ who will be entertaining the guests during the party!
When I get married if my partner also wears a dress we could go black and white like that couple on the internet but if they wear a suit they can wear a tie that matches my dress color or whatever bc I’m not going to force my ideas over theirs bc we are a team❤I’m not a bridezilla😂 I’m open to my partners ideas too😊 it’s not just my day it’s theirs to ❤
At my parents wedding we had a nerf gun fight
I have that same shirt
Best LGBT+ wedding tips? I don't know when but my partner had started talking about rings so i need to get the ideas flowing! Both of us are trans (myself ftm she is mtf)
Do you have any advice for a dry wedding?
When i was younger i had to go to a wedding and something fun they had to do as we waited was play jenga it was sooo fun (even though i broke a glass)
Omg I would hate that seating chart. Just looking at it gave me anxiety. Not introvert friendly 😂
Wedding Kahoot: First place gets to make a speech and gets a crown saying "I know these idiots best"
Puzzles of a picture of the couple
Did you make your own cards to fill out?
Why golf pencils they’re awful 😭 a pack of mechanical pencils is a couple bucks
YES
So doing the thank you notes on tables because then i don't have to do it later😅
“I don’t know all my wedding guests that well” right, that’s probably because it’s the grooms family and believe it or not men should participate in writing thank you notes for THEIR wedding
Is there a part 2?
I like your wedding
At mine we are gonna have a pinata
yes maam
What is the kids gonna drink?
Blame it on the apple juice!
The first one would make me want to leave.
kahoot on the projector
Give us alllllll the things, please!
One thing I've wondered about is: how people have the Mr and Mrs things, I prefer to use the Mx honorific, but I do use Mr sometimes, so would it be better to go with Mr or Mx?
You could just skip all that together and just be like "The Adams" or whatever the last name is lol.
Answer:yes
I don’t understand having people you don’t like know at your wedding? There was another video that was like I don’t want a party favor with your name on it I don’t care it’s like… people that don’t care shouldn’t be there? If I don’t give enough of a shit about you to care why are you paying for me to eat and drink. Makes no sense
You may not know some of your partner's guests.
There is no way to know your partner's entire family unless you've been together for upwards of 5 years and have attended many of their family events together. Otherwise there is alot of unknown but important people.
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Alcoholism
Can you do The Lost Boys (1987) as a wedding theme?