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While your wedding day is a set of non-stop activities for you and your spouse, your guests can experience some down time. One way to keep them entertained is to offer wedding games at your reception. Not only can this make your wedding more fun and memorable, but it can also be a great way for your friends and family who don’t know each other to interact and break the ice. 

Whether you are at one of the outdoor wedding reception venues Omaha has or hosting an indoor event, there are a ton of fun wedding reception games you can include! 

Outdoor games

• Ring Toss: While you are exchanging rings, your guests can toss them! This cute horseshoe-esque game can be customized to reflect your personal wedding. The rings can be made in your wedding color theme and decorated with fun stick-on jewels to mimic real jewelry. 

• Cornhole: It would not be a real Midwest gathering without some cornhole! This tailgate favorite is sure to please all your guests and can be custom ordered to have your wedding hashtag on display or your new last name. Plus, you’ll get to enjoy the new boards for years to come. 

• Giant Jenga: What’s not to love about a giant garden version of everyone’s favorite nail-biter of a game. You can even take this game a step further and write dares or cute notes to the blocks. The best part of having this at one of the outdoor wedding reception venues Omaha has is all the reaction photos your photographer can get when guests knock down the tower! 

• Croquet: Croquet can be the perfect outdoor game to play where guests can have a lot of fun without getting too sweaty. Just make sure somebody has a copy of the rules handy! 

Dinner games

• Wedding shoe game: Perhaps one of the most popular wedding games, the wedding shoe game involves the newly married couple sitting back-to-back with a shoe from each person in their hand. The DJ or a member of the wedding party will then read questions out loud and the couple decides who the statement refers to more by holding up that person’s shoe. 

• Scavenger hunt: Leave a list of activities and a polaroid camera at each table and watch the magic happen! This is a fun game that encourages guests to take pictures throughout the night that you can take home and enjoy later! Some fun things they might have to take pictures of can include: a group selfie, a funky dance move, a kiss or a cool drink. 

• Wedding mad libs: You can create a mad libs style template for all your guests to fill out while they are waiting for their dinner. You can write things like “The best date nights include ___” or “Never go to bed without ___” and see all the fun answers your guests come up with! 

Indoor games

• Board Game Table: A bored-no-more board game table will help guests who aren’t really into dancing still have something fun to do when dinner is over! You can include fun games like apples to apples, connect four and more that will get people from all walks of life involved. 

• Photobooth Station: Everyone loves a good photo booth station and its endless entertainment. You can get creative with a theme here and have it match your wedding theme or just have a ton of silly props that guests can use. The photos guests get can also be their wedding favor! 

The Club at Indian Creek is one of the best wedding reception venues Omaha has and perfect for whatever games you want to include during your reception. Contact us to learn about our availability and book your date!