THE KISS

Often, during the meal, the guests will clink their glasses to get the Bride & Groom to kiss. Some couples don’t mind this, and will even welcome it as a pleasant ritual they’ll enjoy participating in. Others see it as an annoyance - one that interrupts their meal, and keeps them in the spotlight. So what else can be done by the guests instead of clinking? We offer you these options:

1. Have your guests stand up at their table and sing a song with the words “love” or “marriage” in it.

2. Have them sing a TV show theme song.

3. Have individual guests come up to the microphone and give a toast

4. Have individual guests come up to the microphone and tell a funny story about you.

5. Have individual guests come up to the microphone and tell a clean joke.

6. Have a group of different colored balloons in an arrangement next to the head table. Have a question about you placed inside each balloon. (e.g. Where did the Bride & Groom meet?). You can make it a multiple choice answer, or provide a clue to the answer. In order to get you to kiss, a table must pick a balloon, have someone from that table come up and pop the balloon, and answer the question inside. The MC will have the answers.

7. Have balloons as centerpieces. Inside each balloon, on a piece of paper, have a funny action that a table must perform to get you to kiss. When someone from the table pops the balloon, the whole table must perform the action. Some examples: Yell like Tarzan; Stand and do jumping jacks.

8. Have balloons as centerpieces. Inside each balloon, on a piece of paper, quote a famous line from a movie, (e.g. “Go ahead, make my day”). When someone from the table pops a balloon, the table must come up with the name of the movie, or perhaps the name of the actor or character who said the line.

{Some beautiful Centerpieces for your Wedding Reception}

9. This is similar to #8, but instead of a line for a movie, use a line from a song, and the table must come up with the name of the song or the artist who sings it.

10. Have the names of couples who are in attendance placed into a jar at the head table. Every time the crowd clinks, you draw a couple’s name from the jar. That couple must then kiss, and then you must imitate the kiss exactly the way the couple did it.

11. This is similar to #10 but, in this case, if your guests want you to kiss, two of them must voluntarily come up in front of the head table (or they can do it from their own table) and kiss. You must then imitate their kiss.

12. Select your favorite charity, and have a box with the charity’s name placed on the head table, or at a table easily seen and accessible to the guests. When your guests want you to kiss, they must make a donation to the charity.