Wedding games that get your guests mingling
You've spent months planning the reception, and you want your guests up and enjoying it, not waiting at their tables for the next course. Let's Tingo gives them something to do. You build a bingo board of moments to find, every guest gets their own board from the same list, and the first to fill five in a row calls a Tingo.
Make it a camera game and it becomes a wedding photo scavenger hunt. Every find needs a photo, and each one stays with its find for everyone in the game to see, the two of you included.
A wedding scavenger hunt built around your day
Pick a game type, tell Let's Tingo it's your wedding reception and where it's being held, and it builds a list of finds from that: the flower girl dancing, a toast that makes someone cry, grandparents on the dance floor. Keep the ones you like, reword or trash the rest, and add your own, like your dog in a bow tie or the song you picked for your first dance.
A good wedding scavenger hunt game is mostly moments rather than objects, because the moments are what you'll want photos of later.
Wedding games for guests who've only just met
A wedding brings together people who've never met: your college friends, your partner's cousins, the neighbors you grew up next to. In most games, finds are shared, so when anyone spots something, it shows up on every board that has it. A guest at one table can see what someone across the room just found, and that gives people who've never met something to talk about.
Wedding reception games that run all night
Guests don't all arrive at once, so make it a join-any-time game. It's live the moment the invites go out, and anyone can join halfway through, from cocktail hour right up to the last song. Put the QR code on the table cards or on a sign by the guest book, and guests join in the app or in a browser.
If you'd rather have a clear finish, make it a timed game that ends at the last dance. Whoever has the most Tingos when it ends wins. Name a prize when you set it up, the centerpiece from the head table or the first slice of cake, and everyone sees what they're playing for.
Wedding scavenger hunt ideas to get your board started
These are the kind of finds that make a good wedding scavenger hunt. Use them, change them, or let Let's Tingo suggest its own from what you tell it. For other occasions, browse more scavenger hunt ideas.
At the ceremony
- Flower girl
- Ring bearer
- Guest book
- Unity candle
- Program fan
- Happy tears
- Officiant
- Something blue
- Petals on the aisle
- Bridesmaid bouquet
- Boutonniere
- Proud grandparents
At the reception
- Cake topper
- Head table toast
- Seating chart
- Centerpiece
- Photo booth props
- Signature cocktail
- Garter toss
- Bouquet toss
- Clinking glasses
- Couple's dog
- Sparkler send-off
- Late-night snack
On the dance floor
- First dance
- Father-daughter dance
- Grandparents dancing
- Conga line
- Line dance
- Slow dance
- Dance-off
- Dramatic dip
- Shoes kicked off
- Air guitar
- Wedding DJ
- Kids' table
Get your wedding games ready
Set up your wedding games a few weeks out, and have the QR code printed with the place cards. The same game works for bachelorette party games on the weekend before, family reunion games the next time everyone's together, and icebreaker games at the rehearsal dinner.
Joining a game is always free, in the app or in a browser. Plenty of games are free to make, too.