Ideas to surprise the bride and groom.

[Geekmama]

Hello lovely Mumsneters,
I would like to pick you brains. I'm posting on AIBU because of traffic. 😊
My husband is going to be best man my one of our dear friend's, he would like to surprise the bride and groom with something nice on there wedding day.
But we can't really work out what to do.
So we are looking for inspiration.
Did your best men do anything nice for you on your wedding day?
Anybody got any ideas about what he can do?
TIA xx

A professional photographer should have nothing against other people taking photos-printed or not.

It's not ideal but of course guests will also want to take photos. Any amatur photography shouldn't be a patch on a professional and photos cheaply and quickly printed should bare no comparison to those from a professional.

I say this from experience both as an amatur and a professional photographer at weddings.

I second the idea of singing waiters. Dd is getting married in the summer and dh and I have arranged for singer waiters to be there, Dd is a bit a control freak although not particularly over the wedding and likes to know what is going on but we felt that we wanted to surprise the two of them.

The waiters have been primed to sing a couple of Queen songs as future sil is really into their music.

Oh good grief. I am normally well up for s laugh, but unplanned signing waiters at my wedding would have had me in tears.

My face if singing waiters were at my wedding.

Wow another no to singing waiters. Very overdone and cliched now and I'd have hated it! Yes to hotel room upgrade

I don't think singing waiters would be most people's idea of 'something nice!' I suspect many people would find that acutely embarrassing. Unless you know that the bride and groom would really really like it I'd avoid anything even vaguely wacky as the outcome could be a lot of upset. Plus personally that type of thing seems to me to be all about the arranger of the surprise and very little about the recipients.

Our best man did his speech with a big screen and PowerPoint. It was hilarious. He's known dh since uni and had clearly spent a lot of time trawling our Facebook pages and wrote his speech around some of his finds. I have the power point and a copy of his speech and it makes me laugh and cry in equal measure.
I know it sounds a bit worthy but that was better than anything he could have thrown money at tbh. The bridal suite came with our reception venue price, we had more than enough to drive k on the day so didn't need champagne and one of us had to drive home so couldn't have it at breakfast. The day is so busy already and we'd put a lot of effort I to planning and I certainly wasn't a bridezilla but not sure if have wanted big grand gesture surprises on the day.

I went to a wedding where during the bride and grooms first dance all the guests secretly put on masks of the bride and grooms face. They were completly engrossed in their dance then suddenly looked up to see 50 people staring at them wearing their own faces. It was hilarious and creepy all at the same time!

Could you tell us some things about them please?

What are they into?

Sci fi = light Sabres as guard of honour when they come out of church

Or golf = golf club guard of honour

As in the friends line up outside with light Sabres or whatever raised up for happy couple to go between

Etc etc

Iyswim

If they want any of their house decorated could you and friends do it while they are on honeymoon to surprise them when they return to newly decorated sitting room as long as somebody can get hold of a key somehow

You could sort of suss out beforehand colours etc by asking them without raising suspicion

Not sure if this work out but it would be a great surprise for them

How about fireworks outside at Midnight? This works best in a country setting!

Surprise fireworks! I would have loved surprise fireworks!

I like the idea of fireworks, but midnight is too late (possibly wouldn't get a licence that late either)- lots of people likely to have left by midnight.

My bridesmaid dropped a care package into the hotel we were staying in - some fizz, chocolate, coke for hangover the next morning (!) etc. Was a lovely thought.