When it’s your time to bring everyone together, it’s hard not to want something outstanding at your Sioux Falls wedding reception. Especially something that everyone remembers! There’s something special about looking around the room and seeing your guests having an enjoyable time at your own wedding or event.
We’ve created a list of four easy entertainment ideas to add to your event that can keep your guests entertained while you’re busy taking photos, eating dinner, dancing, or visiting with everyone else. There’s only one of you, so it’s awesome if your guests can be entertained on their own while they wait for speeches, dinner, or a moment to congratulate you in person.
4 Easy Entertainment Ideas For a Custom Event Experience
We’ll dive into four entertainment ideas, all that can be implemented by your vendor, but offer opportunities to add your own ideas to make them custom. These elements help make your wedding or event unique and finding something that fits you and your partner’s personality will help create a more meaningful, memorable day.
Grazing Table Or Food Station – A Delicious Display
Food can absolutely be a form of entertainment! From the time guests arrive, they will eat if it’s provided! Help keep their belly pleased before or after dinner with a delicious display of snacks, desserts, or candy. Create an appealing display with trays and cake stands of varying heights.
An interactive food station, where guests can customize their food creation to their preferences is a win for everyone. Some of our favorite ideas are smores, popcorn, soft pretzels, or a bloody mary bar. While these are mainly do-it-yourself and low-maintenance activities, you still will want someone’s eyes on the table, like a coordinator or designated helper, to restock and tidy up from time to time.
Here are a few local Sioux Falls caterers that can help bring your display table or food station to life: Roll’n Pin, Catering by Cleavers.
Photo Booth – Complete Customization!
Photo booths are a fun activity with a ton of benefits for your Sioux Falls wedding reception, whether you’re the creative type or not! Each guest leaves with photo strips in hand documenting the fun they had with the people they love at your wedding! The photo strips can also be customized to include elements personal to your days like wedding colors, hashtags, or dates.
Want to take the customization even further? Create a few of your own photo booth signs or props to use in the booth! Also, with open-air photo booths, you can get creative with your backdrop, or use a unique wall at your venue, for an extra bit of flair!
If you’re not the slow dancing type, a photo booth gives you and your guests a dollar dance alternative. Our Complete Weddings + Events DJ and Photo Booth team will help facilitate a flash photo activity where your guests line up to step in the booth to grab a photo with you and their group! This fun ice breaker gives everyone a chance to get their photo with the couple.
Complete Interactive – Guest Engagement at its Best!
With Complete Interactive, your Complete Weddings + Events DJ introduces various activities for your guests to participate in while their answers and submissions are displayed live at your reception. This unique DJ option includes the following elements you can choose from to fit into your evening’s timeline.
- Social Media Wall – Allow all your wedding guests to experience the virtual social media stream of your event, group meeting, or activity. The social wall lets you submit photos and/or messages from your custom url or hashtag to display at the event virtually, or you can integrate Twitter or Instagram so those posts with your hashtag will be displayed.
- Crowd Questionnaire or Trivia – A fun questionnaire on the couple is always a great way for guests to learn more about the couple or see who knows them best! Complete can also provide trivia questions, which is a great way to battle to decide who will be served dinner first or to win bragging rights for the evening. With Complete Interactive, we can show the live rankings on the screen to let everyone know who’s in the lead!
- Polls – See instant answers from the audience as they interact with the platform on their phone choosing from options and sending in their answers from either a multiple choice. We love having guests vote on their favorite songs to help tailor the soundtrack of the evening to the liking of the crowd (with couple-approved choices of course).
Sparklers
Using wedding sparklers at the end of your wedding night isn’t a new trend that took off recently. For the past five years using sparklers as your final wedding exit is one of the most popular wedding trends and for good reason! The types of wedding photos these sparklers produce can easily become some of the best pictures of your wedding night.
Sparkler Girl: Instead of your typical flower girl just mix it up! Have her walk down the aisle holding a single-lit wedding sparkler. This will make the moment priceless and extra special! Instead of the typical petals being tossed everywhere you will have a truly unique sparkling young lady coming through. Making cleanup super easy and breaking away from the norm and making your wedding truly unique is what tends to make your big day one to be talked about for years to come!
Complete Weddings + Events in Sioux Falls
Work with an experienced Sioux Falls vendor. We will help you implement these elements easily for your Sioux Falls wedding reception! Learn more about Complete Weddings + Events photo booth or DJ services, and contact us to get started!