If you are having your wedding reception outdoors, that opens the door for many activities that'd be troublesome to pull off within. You can plan games and activities based typically on the outdoor theme and carry that theme within if part of the reception is inside also. Contingent on where the reception will be held, you can plan many activities based completely on the setting. If it's the park or on a farm, there are a myriad of activities you can plan. One fun game for a winery wedding is a blindfolded wine tasting game. If the bride-to-be and groom are wine drinkers, this may not a game the bride-to-be and groom should perform a part in, but instead guests and wedding party members.

Blindfold maybe 6 volunteers and have them do a blind taste test ( provide something to scrub the palate between sips ).

The volunteers should guess which wine is the pinot noir, which is the Cabernet, and so on. A bottle of wine is the clear prize for the winner of this game. Say you are having a reception at a members club on a golf course. As an easy, "who gets the center piece game", you will have people guess how many golfing balls there are in the floral center piece ( which could decorate a plain giant glass vase crammed with flowers ). In an analogous fashion, there could be an enormous vase or other clear container full of golfballs at the reception somewhere and guests could guess how many golf balls are in the vase.

A daft game could be made on the floor by asking everybody to incorporate their best golfing swing into their dancing for one actual song.

As an example, if the reception is being held at a park, perhaps guests might enjoy a "walk down memory lane". Before the reception, someone can use potted plants or arbors to form a little private lane, which guests can walk through. Along the trail, guests will find photos of the bride-to-be and groom at various stages in their lives. There should be a place for guests to record their thoughts and memories on the way also.

Try and imagine the fun photographs you will get out of a stirring game of football or baseball played by girls in dresses and sneakers and men in suits and sneakers. You can offer a challenge activity concerning shoeless dancing in the grass or a Frisbee toss in the yard. Is there a pool in the yard where the reception will be held? Why don't you have got a swimming activity for after all the reception is done?