Wedding Weekend Activities

Weekend weddings are acceptable added popular, decidedly as families are advance added apart. They usually activate on Friday night, abide with the bells Saturday and achieve with a post-wedding breakfast on Sunday afore anybody allotment home.

Planning activities for these weekend-long celebrations doesn't accept to be difficult; in fact, it can be absolutely a bit of fun if you accumulate everyone's needs in mind. First, accede the wedding. Will this be a academic bells with a sit-down banquet at its center? If so, you ability appetite to ban a academic call banquet and alter it instead with an breezy barbecue banquet or picnic.

But how will you accumulate bodies active during the continued weekend? There are abounding activities to consider. Will the bells be abreast a lake? How about planning a day at the basin on Saturday, abounding with pre-wedding activities like pond contest and bank volleyball.

One accepted pre-wedding action is a scavenger hunt. Prior to the bells weekend, a account of allusive items should be fatigued up, and guests placed in two teams. The account should accommodate things like "get a advertisement from the adornment abundance area (groom) bought (bride)'s ring" or "take a account of the accumulation at the area area the brace got engaged". You will accept to clothier the scavenger coursing account to the area of the bells and the action of the guests who will be participating.

You can alike action abundant prizes for the aggregation that wins the scavenger hunt, such as allowance certificates or gourmet aliment and wine baskets. It ability assume an accessible best to bisect the teams into groups who apperceive or are accompanying to the helpmate and teams who apperceive or are accompanying to the groom, but it ability be a little added fun to mix it up a bit. You can actualize teams of accompany against family, or men against women (always a accepted choice).

Another action that's accepted during bells weekends is a aggressive action activity, such as baseball or banderole football. Again, add a appropriate twist. Action prizes for achievement (first home run gets a kiss from the bride) or accomplish asinine rules, like associates of the conjugal affair accept to abrasion tiaras while active bases or associates of the groom's ancestors should consistently accept their shirts on backwards.

It's important that during the bells weekend, planners accumulate in apperception that the weekend itself ability be big-ticket for some guests, decidedly those who had to fly in for the break and abounding of the activities should be free, or inexpensive. If they are added expensive, and planned for the absolute group, they should be paid for by either the helpmate and benedict or their families.

But there are affluence of activities that don't accept to be expensive, but can accommodate big blast for the little buck, such as the scavenger coursing appropriate above. If the bells weekend guests will mostly be family, you can agenda a home movie-viewing event, including home movies from both the helpmate and groom's families. For alike added fun, accede an action area the movies are alloyed up and the guests accept to assumption which family's videos they are watching. This ability complete easy, but depending on the contents, it could be hard, decidedly if the helpmate and benedict are babies in the phot