Fun Wedding Pranks

Fun Wedding Pranks

Wedding Pranks

Have your favorite mascot marry you.

Sometimes, there are fun wedding pranks to entertain your guests, and surprise your bride and groom at the same time.  Weddings can be full of surprises, and I am not just talking about our “Wedding of substitutions,” as discussed in our last blog in the category “Meeting the Love of your Life.” No matter how well you plan a wedding, some things go right, others go wrong, and the day of the wedding can be full of fun and irritating problems.

What would you do in this wedding disaster moment? 

I recently heard from a pastor about a wedding in Indiana that was planned perfectly.  This was, what I would call “a high-end wedding.”  The church was set perfectly.  Thousands of dollars had been spent on decorations and fresh flowers.  The bride had positioned 6 candelabras in the center isle to finish off the rest of the perfect décor.  The wedding dress was magnificent and had an amazingly long, beautiful trane.  As the bride made her appearance around the corner, everyone in the chapel gasped at her beauty.  That is where things took a turn for the worst.

The bridesmaid who was in charge of the trane lost her focus for a moment and looked away from her duties.  The back corner of the trane caught the first candelabra, pulled it down on top of the dress and set the dress on fire.  After the fire was put out, and the time came to restart the wedding, the bride started to think about how her day had been ruined.  She was about to loose it when her father leaned down and whispered something in her ear.  She smiled, composed herself and continued the march down the isle to complete the journey she had started.

After the wedding was over, the pastor asked the father of the bride what he had whispered to his daughter in that crucial moment.  The father smiled at him and replied, “I simply said to her, ‘One down, five more to go.'”

It’s all about perspective.

What a perfect moment!  I know that no one wants to have problems in their wedding, but the reality is that this can be a part of it!  People have lives.  Kids get sick at inconvenient times.  Accidents happen.  No amount of planning can prevent things like this from happening, but how we deal with them is what makes or breaks the moment.  This father knew his daughter well.  He knew that a bit of humor could diffuse this most incredibly tense moment.  I mean, women plan their wedding day from the time they are little girls, and I am sure that no little girls dream wedding includes being set on fire while walking down the isle or standing in front of the church in a charred dress!  But at the same time, they now have a story to tell, and a memory that will never die!  I mean, it is hard to show someone your wedding pictures and not explain the giant burn mark on your dress!  (And for the record, a swatch of this dress is a perfect thing to put in a wedding time capsule!)

Wedding Time Capsule

It can be more than accidents as well.  Sometimes people think they are being humorous, and are playing jokes.  Things like writing “S.O.S” or “Help Me” on the bottom of the Grooms shoes, so when they kneel at the alter it is shows.  Or pretending to forget the rings and presenting the bride or groom with something else instead, such as a life saver, a piece of yarn tied in a circle, or even a doughnut.  While some jokes are in poor taste, other can be quite funny.  My personal favorite was when I was a best man, the Bride asked me to “make sure the groom was ready” for their first kiss.  So, when the pastor said, “you may kiss your bride,” the groom turned to me and I “brushed the lint off” of his tuxedo, straightened his tie, sprayed his mouth with a freshener, and gave him “two thumbs up.”  The entire thing was planned, with both the bride and groom’s approval, and received a fantastic laugh.  To this day, most of the wedding guests still think it was something the groom and I had planned, and no one believes the bride was in on it.

Planning fun on your Wedding Day

You must really be careful when you plan something of this nature.  All parties need to agree to what is happening.  When my parents were young, my father sent a note to the “honeymoon suite” of their friends wedding on their wedding night that stated, “We found you.”  Needless to say, this spoiled the “planned events” of the evening as the couple was afraid he might show up at any moment.  These kinds of jokes are typically not found to be funny. For 10 great prank ideas for your wedding day check out this fun article here. Also check out these fun videos here, of examples of how to entertain your guests on your wedding day. Whatever you do, don’t forget to save these fun, memorable moments and videos in your Wedding Time Capsule.

What did you do for your first day of marriage? (besides…. you know…)

For my wife and I, we chose to go home for our first night together.  We left for our honeymoon three days after the wedding, but were able to spend that time undisturbed, at home (in our own bed for our first night of marriage).  We were able to start by opening our wedding gifts, and telling stories about the precious relationships we had with the people who had blessed us with so much.  We didn’t worry about who might show up because no one knew we were there. (They all thought we already left for our honeymoon). Our wedding photos were taken digitally, so our photographer dropped off a CD containing all of our photos the first day and we were able to view the images of the wedding before even going on our honeymoon.  This was truly amazing!

There were some jokes that are truly harmless and just make people smile.  Our wedding centerpieces were bowls of water with floating candles in them.  My father-in-law decided it would be a good idea to put two goldfish in the wedding party’s table centerpiece.  This surprised me as I was eating and noticed a goldfish staring at me from under a candle.  Not only did it make me laugh, but it confirmed in my mind that my father-in-law thought of me as “one of his kids.”

Whatever happens on your wedding day.  Be sure that you are planned as much as you can be.  Relax and enjoy the day . . . after all, it is all about you!  Things will go wrong, but it is not something to stress about.  Roll with the punches and make the best of it.  Stressing about the moment will not change anything.  If something comes up that can be fixed, fix it.  If it cannot be fixed – forget it and move on!

So how did you turn your lemons into lemonade at your wedding? Share below in the comments. We would love to hear your story too.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Mark