After a while, the more weddings you go to, the more you’ll feel like you are spending your weekend in Groundhog Day mode. The day and the night can start to feel repetitive for guests who have become frequent wedding guests. So if you’re looking for fun and out of the box ways to make your wedding stand out, here are 7 easy and inexpensive ways to impress your wedding guests with a party they didn’t expect to attend.
1. Cater Your Favorite Food
Skip the traditional wedding reception food and instead do a buffet or a side dish table with a unique type of food that you love, perhaps even cater your wedding dinner from your favorite local restaurant.
2. Have a Donut Wall
Having a standard, old-school wedding cake has been a thing of the past. Instead, couples are serving desserts that are more inline with their personality. Some guests are even taking on the trend of doing a dessert wall, where guests can pick and choose a donut, or two, they’d like to eat.
3. Incorporate Live Music
If you can’t afford a full-band, instead, have a DJ provide the music for the wedding reception and hire one or two musicians to play an instrument to accompany the music playing. It’ll be a good dance floor surprise for your guests.
4. Give Them Some Games
Photobooths have become a standard tradition at weddings, but giving guests more activities will keep them from sitting down in their chairs the whole night. Have lawn games, table tennis, even darts at the wedding for guests to play.
5. Toss Out the Wedding Traditions
If tossing the bouquet, walking down the aisle, or even having a 45-minute long cocktail hour isn’t your style, then don’t do it and skip it instead.
6. Do a Flash Mob
A random flash mob happening in your wedding will give your guests an unexpected twist to experience during the night.
7. Let Them Sit Anywhere
Toss out your seating chart and have your guests pick their own spots to sit for the night. It’ll help them socialize even more and feel like they can be more relaxed for the night at the party.
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