Weekend weddings are becoming more popular, particularly as families are spread further apart. They usually begin on Friday night, continue with the wedding Saturday and conclude with a post-wedding breakfast on Sunday before everyone returns home.

Planning activities for these weekend-long celebrations doesn’t have to be challenging; in point of fact, it can be quite a bit of fun if you keep everyone’s needs in mind. First, consider the wedding. Will this be a formal wedding with a sit-down dinner at its center? If so, you might want to ban a formal rehearsal dinner and replace it instead with a friendly barbecue dinner or picnic.

But how will you keep people occupied during the long weekend? There are many activities to take into account. Will the wedding be near a lake? How about planning a day at the lake on Saturday, filled with pre-wedding pursuits like swimming races and beach volleyball.

One favorite pre-wedding activity is a scavenger hunt. Before the marriage ceremony weekend, a list of meaningful items should be laid down, and guests placed in two teams. The list should include items like ” acquired a brochure from the jewelry shop where (groom) bought (bride)’s ring” or “take an image of the group at the location where the couple got engaged”. You must tailor the scavenger hunt list to the location of the wedding ceremony and the power of the people staying at the resort who will be participating.

You can even offer lavish prizes for the team that wins the scavenger hunt, such as gift certificates or gourmet food and wine baskets. It could seem a plain choice to divide the teams into groups who know or are connected to the bride and teams who know or are linked to the groom, but it might be a little more fun to mix it up a bit. You can produce teams of friends versus family, or men versus women (always a popular choice).

Another activity that’s popular during wedding weekends is a competitive sport activity, like baseball or flag football. Again, add a special twist. Offer prizes for performance (first home run takes its kiss from the bride) or make silly rules, like members of the bridal party have to wear tiaras while running bases or members of the groom’s family should always have their shirts on backwards.

It’s essential that during the marriage ceremony weekend, planners remember that the weekend itself might be costly for some guests, particularly those who had to fly in for the occasion and most of the pursuits should be free, or inexpensive. If they are more expensive, and planned for the entire group, they should be paid for by either the the happy couple or their families.

But there are tons of activities that do not have to be expensive, but can supply big bang for the little buck, such as the scavenger hunt suggested above. If the wedding weekend guests will mostly be family, you can plan a home movie-viewing event, including home movies from both the bride and groom’s families. For even more fun, consider a pursuit where the movies are caught up and the guests have to guess which family’s videos they’re watching. This might sound easy, but depending on the contents, it might be hard, specially if the bride and groom are babies in the photos.

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