Activities for Marriage Wishes

Every guest present at a marriage feast has a duty of care to give best wishes to the newly wedded couple. But a lot of people are not very confident doing so. Offering some form of advice or best wishes is something which has to be done in the presence of all. This is what makes it difficult for people. Most people will not find it very convenient to speak in the presence of a gathering.

If while organizing a wedding feast you realize that most of your guests will be apprehensive in speaking in the presence of others, you should confine the offering of best wishes to just a few people. For this, you may consider the immediate parents, one or two relations or the best man and any other person who will want to do so out of his or her own will. But if this is not what you think of, there are other options that might be open to you.

The very first thing is that you can decide to leave out this part of best wishes. Best wishes are not even obligatory. It is at the option of the organizers. What most people fail to know is that wedding ceremonies should be exceptional occasions signifying the coming together of the couple.

Another option is to have people give in their best wishes through the use of a video. This is a very unique way of making an offering to the new couple. Interested persons will give their best wishes and these will be recorded and handed over to the couple for future view. Although this is not very common, it is a good way of saving time and of avoiding the embarrassment that some guests always face in front of a crowd.

You can also make this funny. You can fashion out a scheme in which people will be given the chance to say something unexpected. If you make the guests know that offering best wishes should not be very serious or very formal, this could relieve them of their apprehension.

For example, you may let them know that any person with a “T” initial will have to offer best wishes. Of course, every person with that initial will begin preparing. Keep in mind that to be forewarned is to be forearmed. It is certain that when you call people up to offer advices when they are unprepared can be intimidating. But if you add a bit of fun to it and let them know it is all fun in doing so, it will be heartening. You may even be surprised at the amusements that this might bring up.

One more option is to announce that best wishes will be offered from table to table and just a chance is given to each table. This will allow the table members to decide on who is to speak for them and they may also chip in their advices with that of the speaker.

What of the case in which a lot of guests will really be bold to offer best wishes and will want to be given the chance to speak. This should not be a problem. You can still manage this with the time you have. You can decide to let every speaker speak on any topic or you may call for them not to repeat on what has already been said. You can equally allocate a time limit for every speaker. In most cases, you can even astonish the speaker by offering a strange topic on which the speaker will have to say something on it. But make sure any surprised topic should be directly related to that marriage of the day.