Organizing a wedding is not an easy task and requires not only financial investments, but also nerves. But if the wedding is organized with a twist, with a bit of originality, taking into account the wishes and capabilities of the guests, it will definitely be remembered for a long time. And various competitions will help the organizers in this matter. The issue of entertainment is especially relevant for those weddings that take place “with continuation,” that is, for more than one day. Now this is largely a tribute to tradition, and is rare, but if you are planning just such a celebration, you should take care of entertainment on the second day. In addition, it is worth considering that the second day of the celebration, as a rule, takes place on a smaller scale and for a narrower circle of people - usually overnight guests and close people.
Oh, this second wedding day: traditions dictate food and fun
In villages and towns, the second day of a wedding is still celebrated without fail, but city residents have begun to forget such traditions.
Such organized fun was aimed at helping the young people adapt to a new role, learn together, greet guests amicably, and in addition, the guests themselves thus helped clean up after yesterday's fun. Naturally, if the celebration was held in a restaurant, then such help will not be required, but the very fact of continuing the banquet already warms the soul, especially when you consider that our traditions on the second day of the wedding are very diverse, entertaining and interesting. Customs on the second day of the wedding allow not to invite all, without exception, guests who were present at the celebration. You can limit yourself to relatives and closest friends. This has a very practical explanation, because a banquet for the same number of guests will cost a pretty penny, and this way you can save money. Moreover, a modest lunch with the family may be more than enough.
If the family is not limited in funds, you can also spend the second day of the wedding in a restaurant, go for a picnic somewhere to a picturesque lake, or just sit at home. After a wedding held at home, for example, for which a special festive hut decorated with flowers was built, the second day is considered a day of cleaning and rest, and in addition, this is a real opportunity to improve your health with a light snack for everyone who slightly overdid it with alcohol at the holiday .
Of course, only you can decide how to spend the second day of the wedding, but people have their own ideas on this matter. Moreover, there are even competitions and rituals prepared in advance that not only diversify the celebration, make it more interesting and lively, but are also designed to attract the favor of heaven and providence to the new young family.
Where to mark?
There are many options for places to celebrate your second wedding day. The final choice depends on the mood and preferences of the young people.
Outdoors
In summer this is the most popular option. If the weather is good, you can go to your dacha, to a country hotel, or organize a picnic somewhere in the forest or on the shore near a pond.
At home is a classic option for a small number of guests. You can have a party in an apartment or in a country house. If there are still a lot of guests, then it’s worth renting a cottage.
- You can organize a feast and interesting competitions in the cafe. This raises the question: who should pay the bill? If finances allow, then young people can do it. It is also acceptable if the newlyweds pay for the drinks or the guests pay for their order in full.
- A boat trip will be romantic and quite unusual. There you can also order a small buffet and entertainment program.
- A trip to another city is more suitable for a small group of friends who love traveling.
- An alternative travel option could be a walk around your hometown. It would be interesting to organize it in the form of a quest.
- Parks and squares are also suitable for festivities.
In winter, it is better to choose active types of entertainment:
- Downhill skating, for example, on cheesecakes.
- Visit to the skating rink. A “picnic” on skates with a thermos and light snacks will be memorable for your friends.
- Horseback riding in a sleigh. You can arrange a leisurely walk admiring the suburban landscapes or a fun competition.
- Snowboard. Bravely conquering the snowy slopes with friends will give you only positive emotions.
It is worth considering that in the fall, celebration options may be limited by weather conditions.
- In rainy weather, it is better to organize entertainment indoors: in a cafe, restaurant, country house.
- On fine days there are more interesting activities, such as cycling.
- You can organize a hike in the autumn forest. Admiring nature, colorful leaves, mushrooms, berries, sitting around a burning fire - everything will give you an unforgettable experience.
- Horseback riding. You can visit the equestrian club and arrange horseback riding.
Only double
Tired of the hustle and bustle of the big day, some newlyweds just want to finally be alone.
- Go on a trip. Many newlyweds fly off on their honeymoon immediately after the first day.
- Arrange a romantic evening, for example, dinner for two.
- Do nothing, take a break from everything. This option also has a right to exist. You can just lie on the couch and watch your favorite movie or TV series.
Competitions for guests
Don't forget that you are not celebrating alone.
We need to stir up the guests too! This is how they will have good memories of the wedding. Here are just a few interesting options:
Competition “Sultan”. The competition is of a comic nature, for all the unmarried people in the room (and women too!). Men are given rubber bands with which they will have to connect the ring fingers of their fair half. The bigger, the better. The winner is the one who has more brides than his comrades.
Competition “Long Road”. Guests need to be divided into teams, each of which must make a long clutch from each other and available materials (clothes, forks/spoons, etc.) to create the longest line.
The winners are the team members who form the longest line and receive gifts from the newlyweds. Competition “Uniting Families”.
The competition is as follows: the newly-made husband is followed by his relatives, and the wife is followed by her relatives. To the music, these two “camps” walk parallel to each other, and then begin to play trickle. The presenter shows the movements, and each of the two columns mirrors this on a relative of the son-in-law/daughter-in-law. At the end of such twinning, everyone kisses and hugs.
Competition for mother-in-law and mother-in-law. Here you will need two participants and two jars of soap bubbles. Guest volunteers come out to blow bubbles, and the participants are asked tricky questions: how many times a month will you visit the young people? How long should I wait for advice in a week? Etc. The answers will be visible through counting bubbles.
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Like all other guests, it is necessary to prepare prizes for parents for participating and winning the competition. These do not necessarily have to be practical things that will be useful around the house - most likely, you will like pleasant little things more. For example, you can prepare comic medals or orders in advance. You can make them yourself or purchase them at a gift store.
In most cases, what is important for parents is not so much winning the competition as participation, so even if you make both couples winners in each competition, this will only bring positive emotions. From the moment of the wedding, the father-in-law and mother-in-law and mother-in-law become one family, so all victories and defeats are shared equally, as are their children.
Children's theme
The topic of children is an eternal theme at weddings, including in competitions.
This is who will swaddle a rubber baby doll faster (and better!), and put on a diaper, and other clothes. A standard competition that is often held and thereby at least slightly replenish your family budget is “Boy or Girl?” To do this, they “vote” with money, choosing from two plates - pink or blue (a girl or a boy, respectively). Whichever of the plates contains the largest amount will probably be the first-born in this family. The money remains with the young.
Or this next competition.
Competition “Feed the toddler.” If the second day of the wedding started off sluggishly, then believe me, after this competition everyone will not only perk up, but will be rolling with laughter. The husband must sit on a chair, he is hidden behind a pre-prepared screen with holes, the groom sticks his head into one of the holes (for the image, you can put a cap on him), and into the other holes his hands, on which he should put rompers and booties.
The newly-made wife sits behind her husband and puts her hands into the holes - and voila, the big toddler is ready! This “child” is asked to eat, comb his hair, etc. and so on. This will be the fun itself: the wife does not see where her husband’s mouth is, and hits him with a spoon everywhere except his mouth. Your wedding will instantly liven up after such a competition.
Bride ransom
At every wedding there is a ritual of bride price, which has long been famous for serious trials, because representatives of one clan paid another for the bride. Nowadays, everything is much simpler; the ransom scenario is prepared for the groom by the bridesmaids and relatives, giving everyone a positive mood for the upcoming celebration. It all starts with the groom meeting at the house of the bride's parents, where he is tested. In this peculiar game, the groom and the witness bargain, showing miracles of ingenuity and wit, offering various types of “barter”: champagne, sweets, outdated bills, money “dolls”, ridiculous gifts. The point is that the groom should not rush to shell out money. After haggling a lot and agreeing on the “price” with the bridesmaids, they finally buy the bride and go to the registry office.
Size matters
For this competition, all men will be needed, as well as various objects reminiscent of manhood, of different sizes, for example, a small cucumber and a large cucumber, eggplant, zucchini, banana and so on. The men are given “items.” They put them in their pocket. And then a participant or several participants take turns walking through a row of men and using their hands to try what is in their pocket. From memory, each participant must determine who had more. Participants who guess correctly receive prizes.
Breast surgery
Since the second day of the wedding should be fun and memorable, the competitions should be cool. For this competition, two women with small breasts will be needed, in the roles of men. For maximum fun, they can wear wigs or headscarves. Every man wears a huge bra. And at the “start” command, each “woman with small breasts” begins to enlarge her breasts in all possible ways, stuffing leaves or balls, money or fruits into them. Everything about everything in 1 minute. The participant with the most magnificent and beautiful breasts will win and receive a certificate as a plastic surgeon.
Pot of wishes
The leader stands in the center. The participants, having formed a circle around it, pass the pot to each other. The presenter says: “I’m friends with young people, I’ll put a letter in their pot...” and names any letter of the alphabet. As soon as he names it, the participant in whose hands the pot is must name 5 wishes for this letter. For example, if the letter “b” is dropped, you can wish for wealth, a carefree future, great love, stormy nights, unbridled fun. The author of the most original congratulations wins, and the pot is awarded to the young people.
Venue of the celebration
Surely you spent a lot of money to organize the holiday on the first day, but few people’s budget will tolerate such a load on the second day.
The amount of money spent directly depends on the venue. Here are some options:
1.In nature. A second outdoor wedding day will be an excellent option for those who cannot stay indoors for more than one day when the weather is good outside.
You can rent an outdoor pool and cool off there and continue competitions, games and photo sessions.
You can rent a ship and celebrate the second day on it, or you can just enjoy nature.
You can go out into the countryside, into the village, or just have a picnic with a guitar, songs, jokes and competitions and comic prizes as souvenirs. Use your imagination, only you can know what is acceptable for your guests.
Important: check the weather forecast and plan in advance what to do if it rains. It is better to order a large tent or awning. Even if it doesn’t rain, guests will be able to sit under it during the sun.
2.Restaurant. You can continue in the restaurant. But it’s better, of course, to change the situation.
Competitions for the second wedding day or “The fun continues!”
No matter how strange it may seem to you, the number of competitions should increase, due to the fact that there will no longer be an official part with marriage registration.
Competition “Who is more economical?” The main theme of the title will be a young woman in the role of the mistress of the house, and her husband is the owner. Who said that only the wife should be able to do everything around the house?
The newlyweds will compete in peeling potatoes (who is faster, who is longer (cuts the peel in a circle), who sweeps better/knows more ways to sew on a button, tie a tie, etc.
A little about traditions...
There are many traditions about what exactly needs to be done on the second wedding day. One of these is the daughter-in-law's housework. Moreover, according to tradition, the husband’s relatives should not only celebrate in the background, but also disturb her (apparently, so that marriage does not seem like honey))). Another option is to give gifts to relatives (also from the daughter-in-law). And finally, folk pastimes like replacing the bride and groom. In short, the choice is wide, although somewhat absurd for modern times. And yet, there are two main traditions of the second wedding day: a bathhouse, symbolizing the purity of marriage, and pancakes, which the newly-made wife bakes for her husband. You may well want to incorporate some of this into your plans.
What must be included in the scenario of the second wedding day
An important moment of the second wedding day is the young people’s address to their parents.
The bride gives her mother-in-law a piece of woolen fabric or a scarf as a sign of respect and submission, and her father-in-law a pouch or snuff box as a sign of goodwill and wishes for peace.
The groom, with bows, swears to cherish and protect the bride throughout her life and to listen to the advice of his mother-in-law and father-in-law, to honor and respect them as his own parents. This action can take place both at the beginning of the day, upon arrival at the mother-in-law's for pancakes, and at its end, when the newlyweds are escorted off and given farewell to family life.
Also, don’t forget about the entertainment program. Even if the second day of the wedding is planned to be spent in a close circle of relatives and a few friends, you can hold fun competitions that can brighten up the feast and prevent anyone from getting bored. Dressing up, acting out mini skits, reading tongue twisters with intimate hints, etc. always look so funny.
Hungry
A fun and simple competition in the “Russian roulette” format - depending on your luck. Glasses with different contents are prepared in advance: beer, brine, milk, kefir, wine, vodka, liqueur, kvass, mash, tomato juice, whey, and so on. Each glass is numbered. Each guest, in turn, pulls out a note with a number from his bag (hat) and approaches the table, unfolds the note, finds out his number and drinks a glass corresponding to this number. If you drank, well done, you're hungover, but if you didn't drink, give the money to the family budget of the young people.
Gang-watering can
Guests are divided into 2 teams with the same number of people. At the same distance from each team (in the middle) there is a container of water (if the company is already quite cheerful, plain water can be replaced with carbonated water or even alcohol). The teams line up as the game will be played using the relay race method. At the “start” command, the first participants run to the container, take the maximum possible amount of water (alcohol) into their mouths and run to their container, splash out the liquid and pass the baton to the next participants. The game continues until the common vessel remains empty. After which, the winning team is determined, which will be able to transfer more liquid into its container with its mouth.
Wedding shamers
Judgment day for those who behaved in a completely non-wedding manner yesterday. Based on the voting results, the disgraces of the celebration are determined, for example, who had the least fun and smiled the least - receives the title “Sad Squishy” and, as punishment, must only smile for half an hour, otherwise - a fine (a full glass in one gulp); whoever moved the least and practically did not dance receives the title “Log” and dances a fiery dance as punishment; whoever drank the least and remained sober receives the title “Teetotaler and Parasite” and drinks a bottle of champagne or beer as punishment; whoever did not wait for the cake receives the title “Hurry” and, as punishment, must eat the cake in a minute without using his hands, and so on.
Honeymoon in Thailand
The couple goes straight to Thailand for their honeymoon. And there is a beauty contest going on. Of course, men and boys participate. The competition is held in three stages: the first - a business card (each participant comes up with an interesting female unusual name and introduces himself), the second - a talent competition (each participant comes up with a female hobby, for example, dancing, fitness, cooking, and demonstrates these talents and the third stage - fashion show in swimsuits (swimsuits must be prepared in advance for the participants). By vote of the jury (all guests), the beauty queen of this wedding is chosen and the most artistic, active, cheerful, charismatic man is awarded the crown. Fun is guaranteed!
