Wednesday, May 27, 2009

alternatives to clinking glasses





Ok bridesmaids...so kev and I have been thinking about nixing the clinking glasses tradition and finding an alternative way for our guests to get us to kiss. I found an article from another blog and posted it below. Let me know your thoughts or if you ahve seen any alternatives that were really cute.

Alternates to glass clinking to get bride and groom to kiss
  • You can use Kiss rating cards numbered 1 - 10. When guests clink their glasses to get the bride and groom to kiss, the members of the wedding party will hold up their kiss rating cards and judge the kiss, much like judges scoring the Olympic diving competition.

  • Instead of clinking glasses to get the bride and groom to kiss, can get guests to sing part of a song with the word love in it. MC can announce something like "Since love is a journey, and so is the honeymoon, The Happy Couple will be taking in a few days, we ask you to serenade them with travelling songs about love or containing the word love." Variation on this is for the song to contain one or both of the bride and groom's names.

  • Can have the guests go up to the microphone and tell a CLEAN joke that could be enjoyed by all

  • Tell the guests the bride and groom will only kiss if the guest made a contribution to the (insert bride and groom's favorite charity's name here) donation jar.

  • Our MC included in his speech something to the effect of "you've been to weddings where you have had to sing a song with love, put a golf ball [etc] but today, you can go ahead and clink your glasses. All that Cathy & Greg have requested is that, since they just got married today, they could benefit from all your years of experience. So if you would like them to kiss, clink your glasses, but then get up and show them what a real kiss is." From newsgroup alt.wedding

  • From newsgroup alt.wedding: Rather than clinking glasses, we asked folks to get up and tell a story about either the bride or groom, or us as a couple. From Rob Alberti of After Hours Disc Jockey Service in newsgroups alt.wedding: The couple can arrange for everyone in the wedding party to have a little story or funny fact about the couple and whenever their guests clink their glasses, another person from the wedding party can stand up and tell their story.

  • Have balloons (which are a typical decorating feature of many receptions / dinners) that have a subject written out and rolled up inside of the balloon. If one of the guests wants the bride and groom to kiss, they must get up, burst the balloon, then follow the instructions on the note inside the balloon. We have come up with some humorous ideas....such as Tell us your most embarrassing moment...or what is the funniest moment / memory you have of the bride or groom. From newsgroup alt.wedding

  • At our wedding, we're having a trivia contest. If the guests want us to kiss, they have to correctly answer a question about the bride/groom/couple, etc. If they can do that, we'll be happy to oblige them. We're also having our best man announce that glass-clinking will be ignored. From newsgroup alt.wedding Questions can be put in a fishbowl for people to draw from. Some sample questions: Where was the bride born? What was the groom's favorite stuffed toy as a kid?

  • Have a person or persons have to come up and kiss in front of you. Note-don't have it be "demonstrate the type of kiss the B&G should do," because some people will be rowdy and lewd about it. You may or may not mind what they come up with! Instead, just say that the price of a kiss is a kiss. From: newsgroup alt.wedding

  • Adaptation of an old Irish custom as an alternative: The ringing of a bell is said to restore harmony between a couple; it's also said to remind them of their wedding vows and to keep evil spirits away. A bell has become a traditional Irish wedding gift. The adaptation of this custom is to give each guest a miniature bell as they enter the church. You can explain in your program that they are to be rung during your recessional and then taken to the reception where they are to be used in lieu of clinking glasses. From: newsgroup soc.couples.wedding

  • Since I have a large number of golfers in my family, we decided to have the guests 'sink a putt' to make us kiss. We had the best man mention this just before dinner. We borrowed a putting green from my sister and we set it up in front of the head table. For every putt that was sunk, we had to kiss. Looking back, I think that we should have had the guests do something if they missed, (i.e. kiss their spouse / date or drink a shot). Anyway, it was a big hit and lots of fun to watch! From: newsgroup soc.couples.wedding Another variation: have 2 holes, with little flags sticking out. On the closest hole's flag write "Short kiss", and on the further one write "Long kiss." From newsgroup alt.wedding

12 comments:

  1. okay so i love the Golf one, because its very your families... and u can always make the person do something if they dont make it... (best/worst dance move, shot, kiss their date or someone of ur choice...) something fun like that lol...

    Bell is traditional alternative to clinking glasses if u want to stay more traditional...

    I like the balloon idea too because its loud and its not like you will be sitting down the whole night, so golf would be good for dinner and maybe balloon during dancing cuz ur gunna need something loud and that way when the balloons are gone its done with lol

    I feel like the ?'s in a fishbowl is cute but its kind of time consuming to do that or a song in the middle of the night cuz u need to stop the dj from playing the song that is on, and that could get irritating...

    Donations is a really cute idea since u love american heart and stuff court,

    Rating cards are cute for during dinner, what if we arent sitting down, does the bridal party have to carry the cards around?

    just some things to think about

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  2. katie bean has a phobia of balloons :-p I can't play her like that...

    I like the golf thing too, but kev says that if we do a photobooth for favors (which is looking like what we are doin) and then do the golf he says "I don't want have a circus going on court"...haha i dunno is it too much ya think? hmmm..

    if we did the cards i def would only have like a couple at the table you guys sit at and you would do it during dinner, no carrying crap around fo sho

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  3. Thanks for not doing the balloons, I owe ya ;)

    My family is Irish and my sister did the wedding bells thing. The small favor on the table at every seat was a sterling silver bell that people could ring to get the couple to kiss. It was a nice sound throughout the night similiar to glasses; but got just as annoying as the clinging glasses too.

    This makes me think that having the request of kisses only be allowed during a certain time is actually good - like the mini golf thing. I agree with Kev though - no circus needed - we'll be getting crazy enough on our own.

    So what about instead of golf; the guests have to do something else - - they have to kiss to make you kiss? I liked that one.

    I agree with Julie that anything that would be like telling a story, like the notes in the fishbowl-that would only get out of hand and be annoying bc it would stop the music, etc.

    Honestly, I really like the donations to your fav charity. But I like that idea so much that I want to do it at my own wedding, so I won't advocate for you to do it SOO much ;)

    So I guess this leaves me with my favorite choice for you being the kiss for a kiss or the bells. Both are very cute. I also saw at a wedding once; they had bubbles as a small favor at everyone's table. And if they blew bubbles near at you, then you kiss. That was cute in the pictures.

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