Ideas for evening entertainment at a small wedding with no disco!

[Wedding1234]

My son is getting married in mid Feb. Small wedding in a hotel with about 28 guests. There is a no loud music rule (so as not to disturb the hotel guests) so there won't be a disco or dancing etc in the evening.

There's going to be a period from about 4.15/4.30 to about 11 to fill.

The couple have thought of doing some board games for a little bit with drinks and there will be some buffet/nibbles early evening.

Has anyone done wedding entertainment without a disco/dancing? What did you do? They would love some ideas!

Thank you!

A comedian - just make sure they are actually funny.

Are you near a uni with a performing arts department? Lots of students have to perform in empty theatres because there is no audience.

A talent show, the top table can be the judges, you'd have to have the right sort of people though, I know one of my friends would jump at this, another would hide under the table to avoid.

Get someone to be a reporter and interview / photograph guests to make a newspaper or news report, either delivered on the day or sent out afterwards.

Silent disco suggestion sounds good, I think. Maybe also make a wedding reception slideshow with the couple's love story or how they met, etc?
Here is a list of games, there are also many table ones that do not require any special stuff to be brought or prepared
www.theknot.com/content/wedding-games

Also quizzes, i.e. how well you know the couple, or something like that.

Silent disco.

But it partly depends who your guests are. If you're talking about board games then maybe they're not the "dancey" type anyway? In which case a quiz could be fun.

I think it's a bit odd that the venue are allowing a wedding until 11pm but no music. As a guest I'd find it strange to have no music-related entertainment at a wedding going on that late into the evening.

In your position I think I'd do speeches, games, cocktails/canapes, and finish a bit early at 8/9ish.

@Wedding1234 this is a chap who’s local to us but does travel. The photo is a few years old now! www.jasperblakeley.co.uk/
His shows are outstanding

Thanks everyone! They absolutely love the quiz idea which can be combined with some drinking, nibbles and socialising! Hopefully it goes well, I'll report back!!

Could they do a sort of craft whereby you make your own wedding favour - paint a pebble with the date on or something like that - or colouring a specific template with space for words and then that can be bound and becomes the guest book

I assume all the times are fixed ? We had a 3pm wedding, got to the hotel about 4. Had dinner at 5 which went on till 6.30 ish. Then we just had a pianist for background music. Had a light buffet type thing about 9. Everyone just pottered round chatting. It was in a nice small hotel max guests 40. People could go to bed/leave when they wanted. Most were staying over. It was really relaxed and enjoyable but we are not into late nights and parties so it worked for us.

Silent disco
Quizzes are good
Art work
Speeches
Music
Cocktails
Canapes/nibbles/snacks
Reporter type thing
Prayers
Talent contest type affair