Kissing Games

Besides the suggestions below, we also have ideas at www.frugalbride.com/kissinggames.html
If you can think of any others, please add them.

Sunflower:
Guests name a song with the word “kiss” in the title or the whole table has to stand up and sing a song with the word “kiss” in it.

Kellygreen:
We're decorating aroulette wheel with different sections for different things:
- we kiss
- you kiss someone at your table
- you show us how to kiss

Dimples:
We used little gold bells. We had tied little cards on them with ribbon that read:
"Swing me left, swing me right and the Bride and Groom shall kiss all night."

Mandi:
In order to get us to kiss, guests will have to donate to a charity ( I think the heart and stoke foundation - my grandpa died of a heart attack 15 years ago so it is one way of remembering him) minimum donation of a $1 and the more you donate - the longer we kiss. We will be spreading the idea before hand and giving each of the kids a loonie in case they want to be part of the fun.

Jbbride:
have guests give the bride and groom marriage advice or give an interesting story about the bride or groom. The bride and groom can then decide whether or not they will kiss according to the thought that went into the story.

Bella Bride:
I am thinking of stealing a friend's idea and have a bowl of hershey's kisses and when someone wants you to kiss they have to bring one to you.

Kea66:
We are getting married at a golf course so we are setting up a putting green. If they get a hole in one, we kiss. If they miss they have to go back to their table and kiss someone else besides the person they are with.

Sporty:
My FI and I are both trivia buffs (so is his family!), so we're going to do Bride & Groom trivia. You'll be asked a question and if you get it right, we have to kiss and if you get it wrong.....well, I don't know yet.....maybe we'll make that person kiss someone of our choosing!!

DaisyDelight:
We had a Kissing Wheel. The guest would have to spin it and if it landed on a heart we would kiss but if it landed on something else the guest would have to pick a "dare" and do it if they still wanted us to kiss.
The dares were: Get a drink for everyone at your table, do the chicken dance, hula hoop, put on the lay and do a Hawaiian dance etc...
It was fun, lots of guest got into it

Researcher:
For a (very brief) time, we thought it would be cool to give everyone a kazoo & have them play a song.

Distanced:
a- Guests come up with a partner and show us how to kiss (then we'll have to copy them)
b- Guests make up a limerick and tell it aloud over the mike I'm not embarrassed at all about the kissing thing and hope everyone has fun.

Mrs. K:
Guests come up to the podium tell a funny story about one (or both) of us.

Mo:
If they wanted us to kiss, a table (and an entire table) had to stand up and sing a song either about 'love' or 'travelling' ... if they could combine the two, then we did two kisses.

Crystal Blue:
We are doing the hoola-hoop game ... guests come up in front of the head table and hoola-hoop ... as long as they can keep it up, we'll kiss for that length of time

Lucky-In-Love
My table names are going to be various musicians - to get us to kiss, they have to (either alone or as a table) sing a song/verse from the artists' table they are sitting at. So, I need help coming up with about 9 artists with love-related songs and that I can use for both young and old. Some ideas
Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, Madonnna, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jann Arden, Eagles, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Luther Vandros, Diane Krall, Jewel, Chicago, Bon Jovi, Air Supply, Lonestar, Police, Berlin, Chicago, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Sheriff, Bad English, INXS, U2, Bryan Adams, Jeff Healy Band, Nat King Cole, Harry Conick, KC & JOJO, Boys II Men, Barry White, Teddy Pendergrass, Whitney Houston, Depeche Mode, Dave Matthews Band, Sarah McLauchlan, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Fred Astaire.

honeyboo:
We're doing magnetic poetry. We'll have an 8x10 picture frame on each table. inside will be a white sheet of metal with a variety of words on magnet strips. If someone wants us to kiss, they have to assemble at least a 2 line poem and get up and read it.

dancenut :
We had a putting strip created by my now HB.
Two putts with a plastic putter and ball. Neither ball in - no kiss. One shot in we kiss. Both shots in - we REALLY kiss!

Jen :
We haven't decided yet, at our friend's wedding last month had a basket for "donations" to get the bride & groom to kiss, what kind was unspecified. Some people put in $20's. My fiance is sensitive about people feeling obligated to shell out $ for us and I agree, when we will have already gotten some engagement, shower and wedding gifts, not to mention the other expenses our families will have, and we have said NO stag & doe. BUT...some funny stuff went into the donation basket for our friends as well, Subway stamps, old movie tickets, paper clips, silly things. Since we are registering at Canadian Tire we could go with either Canadian Tire $ and/ or a donation to cancer or children's hospitals. We could also let our guests know that if they would like to make a donation to a cancer or children's charity in lieu of a gift we would be honoured, so it would be a nice fit and not for our profit.

Fh is making a Plinko board. It'll have a couple slots with some B&G kiss, you kiss, tell a joke or sing a song, try again. Corny stuff like that.

KK... I love that idea mainly because we are walking in to Stone Cold Steve Austin's entrance music and our WP to the Hulk's.... (yep I was a little tippsy when FI talked me into that one) LOL

But we are doing trivia... we are putting an envelope on each table with 5 questions on it they can choose 3 of them if they gt all 3 right we kiss... 2 right they can choose 2 of the WP to give a peck to...1 right... they have to kiss someone... 0 right & there will be a concequence for their whole table...
this is the poem that we put on in the envelopes... the questions are fun and encourage people to talk to each other

If you wish the BRIDE and GROOM to KISS
Come up to the mic with this list
See how many questions to answer you are able
But be careful because you are speaking for
Your whole table

Ok... so i posted this somewhere else but thought it was relevant:

I was recently at a wedding where they looked for donations (I was the MC) - and the downside was that no one really noticed that people were donating the $ or that the bride and groom were kissing. Then the bride complained to me that her guests were complaining about the lack of acknowledgement, In the end myself and my partner MC watched the donation basket all night, and when a donation was made (against the policy of the hall), we clinked glasses so that the bride, groom and donating guest could have 'credit' for their kissing.

Anyway, here is a stellar idea - for my best friend's wedding, her husband came up with the kissing game and kept it as a secret from her - this could be why I think it is so cute - On his own he bought little galvanized steel buckets and inside were tissue filled pouches. When the guests were seated the best man instructed all guests to open the pouches. Inside the pouches were Legos. The kissing game was a show and tell built from Legos. Where each table was responsible to build something that represented the bride and groom and someone needed to make a presentation of the structure/item.

Ok, seriously this was so cute and EVERY table presented at least once. The most memorable was the lego boat that was built to represent the memories that a cousin had of the bride and groom teaching her little one how to water ski at their cottage. So cute.

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We're going with the plink board idea. Not sure what to have at the bottom yet but we'll figure that out.

DH and I had our guests play rock paper scissor with us. They win we kiss, we win they kiss someone else. It was fun.

that sounds like fun MrsJones... FI loves that game tries to do it when ever the dog has to go out....

It's a fair way to determine many things WendyLady....lol..

My FI is a pilot so we're going to have pink (wedding colour) paper of a variety of types (ie. construction paper, normal, orgami) and sizes on each table. In order to have us kiss they are going to have to make a paper airplane and get it into a hoola hoop that will be on the dance floor.

We haven't finalized everything yet, but it would be similar to the copy cat kissing game.

Put names of guests in a hat (of who we'd think be up for it), and pull out two names when the guests want us to kiss. It'll especially funny when two guys will have to kiss! If the two names pulled out agree to kiss, then we'll kiss too!

I also like the the "everyone's a comedian" one from the fb website where everyone tells a joke for us to kiss.

I think we'll be kissing enough throughout the night that we've decided to opt out of doing this tradition. But here are some suggestions:

"Reverse Kiss" - where the bride/groom have all the couples names bowl, and throughout the dinner they draw one out...the bride/groom introduce them, explain how they know the couple, and then pass the microphone to the couple, and they have to say what they love best about each other, followed by a kiss. For large weddings, its a nice way for your guests to get to know your other guests.

"Bridal Party" - assign each member of your bridal party a song (this could be a song that reminds you of them) - but don't tell them (you could put it under their plate, or put a "do not open" envelope on their chair. Then you announce that if people want you to kiss, they have to come up and invite one of the bridal party members to dance. They bring the envelope to the DJ, who plays the song and they have to dance before you kiss.

I like the Bridal party dance to a secret song idea, that could be really funny!
I also wanted to mention, If you don't plan on doing a kissing game be prepared for your guests to go with the old standard and clink their glasses. If you don't want to do the kissing thing at all you will have to have someone announce that you are not doing it or put a little note on the tables. Any wedding I have ever been to, if there wasn't a specific kissing game explained people clinked their glasses.