Kissing Games

[mlfallis]

Ok, I searched and found no thread, so what ideas have you guys seen for the kisisng game at dinner. I am looking for something for my wedding and want to see what others have done.

I have seen two recently:
1. A table has to get up and sign a song with the word love in it somewhere

2. Each table has a question regarding the bride and groom, if they get the answer right, the couple kiss.

What have you guys seen. TIA

[Mrs.B716]

This is what we did and it was VERY successful.........

Place a vase or jar infront of you on the head table (or where ever it is easy to get to)

Then we announced to the guests that in order to get us to kiss you need to come up and put a reasonable monetary donation into the jar.
(At this point we were getting some weird looks. MIL had to have her nose into everything and this was one thing she didn't think to ask about and you should have seen the look she gave me when I said this!!!!! It could have killed someone!!!)
Anyways.. then you say all of the money will be donated to an organization that you chose. We chose the American Diabetes Association since my Mom had it and she passed away from a heart attack which is common in Diabetes patients. So when they heard this everyone started applauding and my Mom's best friend's Husband was up to that jar faster than I could get back to my seat with a $10 donation! The guests had so much fun with this!!! We kind of let them do what they wanted so we had people that would go together and come up with $20 and then they would slowly put it in the jar so we did a lot of kissing. But that's ok!!:D We ended up donating $114.
You could chose any organization so you could do like a humane society or like a Malamute society of some kind. Or if someone in your family has breast cancer you could do that. The options are endless!!

[sublime311]

We didn't have a game like this, but I read this idea someone once that I thought was super funny: Have a bunch of hula-hoops available - guests have to get up and hula-hoop to get you to kiss!

[sublime311]

Found this here (http://www.twojsmusic.com/wedding_kissing.asp):

Weddings
Kissing Games

This is just some fun alternatives to the clinking of glasses to get the Bride and Groom to Kiss. If you have any suggestions for ideas to add to this list please feel free Contact Us. We refer to these as the Rules of Engagement

Sing a Song with the word "LOVE" in it.


Sing a TV Show Theme Song (ex. Theme from Gilligan's Island)


Make up appropriate lyrics to: On The First Day Of Marriage, My True Love Gave To Me........On The Second Day ... and so on.


Choose any song and change the lyrics to reflect your special day (ex. We wish you a Merry Wedding, We wish you a Merry Wedding and a Happy Honeymoon).


If Someone wants the Bride and Groom to kiss, they must go to the microphone and tell a joke or funny story.


Set up a Miniature golf course near the head table (1 Hole). The participants must get a Hole In One in order for the Bride and Groom to Kiss.


Have 1 or More Balloons for each table beside the head table in an arrangement. Inside each balloon will be a slip of paper with a question on it like "Where did the Bride & Groom Meet?" If needed maybe a Clue could be added. The DJ or MC will have the answers. A person from the table pops the balloon and if the table can answer the question correctly, then the Bride and Groom Kiss. If not, They Don't.


Have Balloons as Centerpieces. Inside the Balloons have instructions as to certain ridiculous actions that the whole table must perform.


Have Balloons as Centerpieces or Envelopes on the Table, Inside on a piece of paper, Quote a Famous line from a Movie (e.g. Go Ahead Make My Day). The Table must Quote the Correct Movie to Get the Bride and Groom to Kiss. IF they are wrong you may let them try again until they get it Right.


YOU KISS FIRST. Since it is your First day as Husband and Wife, you may need some lessons on how to kiss, so in order to help you learn, another couple must first go up in front of the head table and demonstrate how it's done.


ICEBREAKER - SHARE THE WORK. Instead of having the Bride and Groom kiss all the time, have all the couples names that are in attendance in a jar, have the Bride and Groom draw a couples name and have that couple kiss (We have also seen this done where everyone's name that is in attendance is put in the jar, this can lead to some awkward situations if you pull out 2 peoples names that are no longer a couple). That is why we suggest only couples names in the jar.


DONATION OF MONEY TO A CHARITY - Select your favorite charity. If the crowd wants you to kiss, they have to make a donation (the bigger the donation the better and longer the kiss).


Use a hula hoop. Tell people that they have to hula for 30 seconds to make you kiss. This will also make for some great photo ops.!


Play a game of name that tune. The first person to come up with the answer stands up at there table and calls it out to the DJ. If they are right the couple kisses . If they were wrong the couple picked 2 people from that table and make them kiss.


Make the guests come up with a top 10 list similar to David Letterman's top 10 list - each table has a certain theme, and has to come up with a list of 10 things...like top 10 honeymoon activities (!), top 10 reasons why Bride & Groom are perfect for each other, top 10 famous couples, etc etc...(no wrong answers really, but it makes your guests work a little for the kiss!)


Ask a question about yourself either individually or as a couple, put one question in an envelope on "each table". The table has to put their collective heads together to "answer" the question on their table. If answered "correctly" the Bride & Groom will kiss. If answered "incorrectly" (DJ or MC asks them is this is their "final answer") If still incorrect then the Bride & Groom get to say something that the participants at that table "must do". Sort of a "reverse" consequence clause. The "consequence" clause keeps the guessing to a minimum and therefore the Bride & Groom get to "eat their dinner". This creates a lot of fun and buzz during dinner, especially if the Bride & Groom make the incorrect answering tables do some interesting things such as: 1. everyone kiss someone at another table. 2. everyone go to the dance floor and do the chicken dance. 3. sing a song for the other guests. It is a good idea to have some "harder" questions "extra" for the table that thinks they "know all the answers" or when each table has answered their question. You can therefore keep it going by handing out some "extra" questions for the "advanced" guest tables. This gets to be really "fun".


Remember that beanbag toss game you had when you were a kid? Still have it around? If not you can make one, take a piece of plywood cut holes in it, paint it up nicely and decorate it. Now you can label the different holes with things like “Bride & Groom Kiss”, “You must kiss someone from the Head Table” Bride & Groom kiss You”, etc. You can even have them toss a Loonie or Toonie and have all the monies collected go to your favorite charity.

[mlfallis]

Mrs.B716 and Subline311: Thanks those are great ideas.

keep them coming :D

[Nakakna]

we had a tough time with this one because our friends clink their glasses like none other! we wanted something that would discourage them, not encourage them so we could eat! plus, where did people get the idea that the bride and groom should be embarrassed at their own wedding? ;)

we had friends who did the "pull the name of a couple out of a jar and have the show you how to kiss" - it seemed like such a great idea, but it totally backfired. it was the SINGLE people who clinked their glasses to get names pulled out. they were safe since they knew their names weren't in the jar! and the couples ended up trying to TOP each other in the way to kiss!

what we did was we had a jar with different things people had to accomplish before we kiss. when people clinked their glasses, our MC's pulled a task out of the jar and they choose a table at RANDOM. so NO ONE's safe (except our relatives, who could care less about us kissing haha). it could be the entire table, only a couple people from the table, etc.

we had tasks like:
sing YMCA and do the hand movements too
form a train and choo-choo around the room
do the macarena
do the wave


the best was we specifically had two jokesters who we named specifically in four of our tasks. so if their tasks got pulled, they had to do them specifically! we cornered them because we know they're usually the ones at a wedding who start the glass clinking! the one we really wanted them to do was each had to do a jumping jack while the other yelled out their name and go back and forth! but they didn't want to do it...they did some other task instead.

we only had to kiss 4 times the entire night...it really discouraged people, but it was also fun to watch people make fools of themselves! hey, if we have to be embarrassed, our guests might as well be too! :D

some of our friends got a bit inebriated and tried to run off with the jar of tasks! we had back up though. :D

ETA: remembered more tasks!
the whole table had to do like three hokie pokie movements
the whole table needed to do the alphabet backwards one-by-one

[AllyLeigh]

YOU KISS FIRST. Since it is your First day as Husband and Wife, you may need some lessons on how to kiss, so in order to help you learn, another couple must first go up in front of the head table and demonstrate how it's done.

We did this with a little twist...

When the guest clinked their glasses, we would draw an RSVP (of couples only, obviously..lol) out of a pile, and they would have to demonstrate a kiss for us, then we'd have to do the same. It was a lot of fun and the guests quit clinking their glasses after a while, cuz they didn't want to be picked! It was great! LOL :D

[maplekitty]

Honestly...we just has glass clinking. We'd been to 4 weddings that summer, before ours, and everyone had a "Game", that we just decided to let people clink glasses. I mean honestly, I love making out with my DH so why wouldn't I want to kiss him?!?!

However, one friend of ours had a spinning wheel up at the front. like a game show wheel. On the wheel were a whole bunch of different kisses, and the person had to come up and for a dollar donation, spin the wheel.

[Sare79]

Ours was a dice game, and one wedding we went to was a trivia game with questions about the couple.

[Mrs.Pfeiffer]

I'm interested to hear more about the different trivia game ones....how exactly do those work? :)

[Kaybelle9]

I just attended a wedding where the couple was really into Vegas. They had decks of cards as their place cards. In order to make the bride and groom kiss, you had to go up to the head table and beat them in a game of blackjack. Only problem? They were so good they only kissed twice.

I've also attended weddings in the past where the Groom worked on cars, so to get them to kiss, you had to sing a song that had something to do about cars (i.e. "there's just something women like about a pick-up man") They put matchbox cars on the table as a reminder to guests. This could be done for just about anything to personalize it.

Something I would not recommed for a kissing game, is having people come up and tell a story about the bride and groom. One wedding we had a drunk ex-roommate explaining how the bride had to get a wart removed from her foot ever few months... while we were all eating.
Another one I don't recommend is having people go to the table and give you advice. Aunt Annie and Uncle Joe will be hogging the microphone giving pointless advice that will eventually bore the entire reception.