25 UNIQUE WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT IDEAS YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF

If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we’re all unique, and it’s that uniqueness that we want to express on our wedding day. And to come up with something new in this age of flash mobs and bubble machines, the stakes are due a raise.

Yes, we’ve all seen a chocolate fondue; yes, we’ve all been offered a prawn cocktail from a canapé waiter’s tray; yes, we’ve all seen conga lines in front of a mobile disco.

These are tried and true methods of making merry – but change around the letters of ‘tried’ and you’ve got ‘tired’. It’s time for a fresh perspective, so here are 25 unique ideas to entertain your wedding guests that may not have yet occurred to you.

Hot dogs aren’t just for fairgrounds and cinemas – you can hire a cart for the day that will ply your guests with delicious gourmet snacks smothered in anything from teriyaki chicken to nacho cheese and jalapeños. It’s fancy fast finger food for all the family!

The bouncy castle business has come on in leaps and bounds since your 5th birthday party! You can now hire some seriously stately-looking inflatable structures, so your guests can look more grown up while they’re acting like big kids.

One minute they’re serving up drinks, the next they’re serving up a song! Your guests won’t know what hit them when they realise the entertainment has been hiding in plain sight.

You may have seen props, masks and wacky frames at a wedding photo booth before, but you can also hire a touch screen photo booth packed full of crazy effects! You can also fix your image yourself in post.

This can refer to either the design or the contents of the Pinata. We’ll leave you to imagine the former, but the latter can include mini alcoholic beverages, luxury chocolates or naughty wedding favours, just to name a few. If your guests are bringing their children, make sure you have a kid-friendly pinata kept separate from yours!

Hiring a magician these days is a far cry from watching a clown pretending to saw an audience member in half. No, these days you can hire close-up magicians whose impossible card and coin tricks will leave you checking your pockets for hours.

A game of giant Jenga is a tall order, giant snakes and ladders can get a little dicey, and we’ll be having words about giant scrabble! Oversized board games are great fun outdoors, and can be hired if you’re put off by the equally oversized price tag.

Cocktails are probably the most fun way to drink – but your guests will have even more fun with them if they’re learning how to shake them up themselves! Hire a mixologist to give you the low-down on mojitos and daiquiris – just make sure the lid of the cocktail shaker is on properly.

Photos are pretty much a given these days – we’ve all got a phone now. So why not give your guests a token from the unique mind of a caricaturist, silhouette portraitist or painter for that personal touch?

The Illuminations at Disneyland are a wondrous sight to behold – but you can recreate it yourself using your cake! If there’s one thing that could’ve improved watching the animations dancing across the walls of Sleeping Beauty’s castle, it’d have to be knowing you could take a delicious slice of it away with you.

Just when you thought champagne’s light-hearted younger cousin couldn’t get any more appealing, out comes an enticing array of toppers and mixers! Flavoured cordials and vodkas are an established favourite – and your guests will have plenty of fun with the vanishing candy floss!

Why do with your hands what you can do much more effectively with a cannon? Your guests will have a blast firing clouds of confetti over the happy couple – just try to aim well above their heads.

For the best giant bubble experience, get yourself a pro to show your guests how to recreate those gravity-defying soapy shapes. Then, they’ll have a ball trying to do it themselves!

Nothing makes a crowd ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ quite like a firework display! And these days, thanks to modern advancements in firework technology, you can have your display outside with sparklers or inside with fancy lighting and pyrotechnics (though you should always check with your venue first).

Naturally, this is a lot easier to organise if you’re tying the knot in the countryside, or even on a farm. Fortunately, mobile petting zoos exist, so your guests can enjoy the company of cute and cuddly animals wherever you may wed.

The perfect addition to an extravagant wedding is undoubtedly the champagne fountain! At once a feature and a fancy drinks dispensary, you’ve just got to be extra careful not to knock the delicate glass pyramid – especially if you’ve been dipping into it.

Champagne fountain? Been there, done that. Edge your way into the 21st century with the alcohol-secreting ice sculpture that is a vodka luge! There are enough flavours and designs available for you to give your guests a truly unique luging experience.

A modern upgrade from both the photo booth and the guest book, hire one of these to catch your guests leaving you a personalised message of good will on camera!

Whether they take the form of a palm reader or tarot card reader, you’ll find even your most sceptical guests will be able to suspend their disbelief long enough to be told something fortunate about themselves! If anything, it’s a great conversation starter.

Everyone has fond memories of chalking their garden paths and patios into a technicolour dreamscape as a child – so why not do the same to your wedding venue as adults? It’ll be a fun way for your guests to leave you a personal message, and it’ll all wash off in the rain, so you’re likely to get the go ahead from the venue owner.

When we think ‘DJ’, most of us still think ‘Ibiza’. By all means have a house heavy playlist if that’s your cup of tea – but there are many other brews to sample, such as swing! There are few more persuasive rhythms when you’re trying to get your guests to the dance floor, and the retro style pumped through modern equipment could be your something old AND something new.

While we’re on the subject, you can’t go wrong with a live swing band! Your more mature guests will love the nostalgia kick, and your younger guests will be amazed when your swing band breaks into a Postmodern Jukebox-style cover of a contemporary chart hit.

We’re pretty sure all the donkeys have got their tails back by now – so it’s time to get creative! Pin the beard on the groom, pin the toupee on the president, or pin whatever you like on whomsoever you please.

Sure, the graphics might look laughable next to the latest Xbox offering, but the simple controls can be figured by even the most novice gamer. Plus, it’ll serve as a trip down memory lane for anyone who lost all their pocket money to Pacman in the 80s.

Our top spot is taken by the increasingly popular but nonetheless out there trend of transforming your wedding into a literal circus! Amuse and confuse your popcorn-and-candyfloss-munching guests with fire breathers, acrobats, stilt walkers and clowns, all lead by a top hatted ringleader!

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25 UNIQUE WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT IDEAS YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF

If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we’re all unique, and it’s that uniqueness that we want to express on our wedding day. And to come up with something new in this age of flash mobs and bubble machines, the stakes are due a raise.

25 UNIQUE WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT IDEAS YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF

Yes, we’ve all seen a chocolate fondue; yes, we’ve all been offered a prawn cocktail from a canapé waiter’s tray; yes, we’ve all seen conga lines in front of a mobile disco.

25 UNIQUE WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT IDEAS YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF

These are tried and true methods of making merry – but change around the letters of ‘tried’ and you’ve got ‘tired’. It’s time for a fresh perspective, so here are 25 unique ideas to entertain your wedding guests that may not have yet occurred to you.

25 UNIQUE WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT IDEAS YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF

Hot dogs aren’t just for fairgrounds and cinemas – you can hire a cart for the day that will ply your guests with delicious gourmet snacks smothered in anything from teriyaki chicken to nacho cheese and jalapeños. It’s fancy fast finger food for all the family!

25 GOURMET HOT DOG CART

The bouncy castle business has come on in leaps and bounds since your 5th birthday party! You can now hire some seriously stately-looking inflatable structures, so your guests can look more grown up while they’re acting like big kids.

24 BOUNCY CASTLE

One minute they’re serving up drinks, the next they’re serving up a song! Your guests won’t know what hit them when they realise the entertainment has been hiding in plain sight.

23 SINGING WAITERS

You may have seen props, masks and wacky frames at a wedding photo booth before, but you can also hire a touch screen photo booth packed full of crazy effects! You can also fix your image yourself in post.

22 INTERACTIVE PHOTO BOOTH

21 ADULT PINATA

Hiring a magician these days is a far cry from watching a clown pretending to saw an audience member in half. No, these days you can hire close-up magicians whose impossible card and coin tricks will leave you checking your pockets for hours.

20 CLOSE-UP MAGICIAN

A game of giant Jenga is a tall order, giant snakes and ladders can get a little dicey, and we’ll be having words about giant scrabble! Oversized board games are great fun outdoors, and can be hired if you’re put off by the equally oversized price tag.

19 GIANT GAMES

Cocktails are probably the most fun way to drink – but your guests will have even more fun with them if they’re learning how to shake them up themselves! Hire a mixologist to give you the low-down on mojitos and daiquiris – just make sure the lid of the cocktail shaker is on properly.

18 COCKTAIL MAKING CLASS

Photos are pretty much a given these days – we’ve all got a phone now. So why not give your guests a token from the unique mind of a caricaturist, silhouette portraitist or painter for that personal touch?

17 PERSONAL ARTIST

16 ANIMATED WEDDING CAKE

Just when you thought champagne’s light-hearted younger cousin couldn’t get any more appealing, out comes an enticing array of toppers and mixers! Flavoured cordials and vodkas are an established favourite – and your guests will have plenty of fun with the vanishing candy floss!

15 PIMP YOUR PROSECCO

Why do with your hands what you can do much more effectively with a cannon? Your guests will have a blast firing clouds of confetti over the happy couple – just try to aim well above their heads.

14 CONFETTI CANNON

For the best giant bubble experience, get yourself a pro to show your guests how to recreate those gravity-defying soapy shapes. Then, they’ll have a ball trying to do it themselves!

13 GIANT BUBBLES

Nothing makes a crowd ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ quite like a firework display! And these days, thanks to modern advancements in firework technology, you can have your display outside with sparklers or inside with fancy lighting and pyrotechnics (though you should always check with your venue first).

12 FIREWORKS

Naturally, this is a lot easier to organise if you’re tying the knot in the countryside, or even on a farm. Fortunately, mobile petting zoos exist, so your guests can enjoy the company of cute and cuddly animals wherever you may wed.

11 PETTING ZOO

The perfect addition to an extravagant wedding is undoubtedly the champagne fountain! At once a feature and a fancy drinks dispensary, you’ve just got to be extra careful not to knock the delicate glass pyramid – especially if you’ve been dipping into it.

10 CHAMPAGNE FOUNTAIN

Champagne fountain? Been there, done that. Edge your way into the 21st century with the alcohol-secreting ice sculpture that is a vodka luge! There are enough flavours and designs available for you to give your guests a truly unique luging experience.

9 VODKA LUGE

A modern upgrade from both the photo booth and the guest book, hire one of these to catch your guests leaving you a personalised message of good will on camera!

8 GUEST VIDEO BOOTH

Whether they take the form of a palm reader or tarot card reader, you’ll find even your most sceptical guests will be able to suspend their disbelief long enough to be told something fortunate about themselves! If anything, it’s a great conversation starter.

7 FORTUNE TELLER

6 JUMBO CHALK

5 SWING DJ

While we’re on the subject, you can’t go wrong with a live swing band! Your more mature guests will love the nostalgia kick, and your younger guests will be amazed when your swing band breaks into a Postmodern Jukebox-style cover of a contemporary chart hit.

4 SWING BAND

We’re pretty sure all the donkeys have got their tails back by now – so it’s time to get creative! Pin the beard on the groom, pin the toupee on the president, or pin whatever you like on whomsoever you please.

3 PIN THE (BLANK) ON THE (BLANK)

Sure, the graphics might look laughable next to the latest Xbox offering, but the simple controls can be figured by even the most novice gamer. Plus, it’ll serve as a trip down memory lane for anyone who lost all their pocket money to Pacman in the 80s.

2 RETRO ARCADE

Our top spot is taken by the increasingly popular but nonetheless out there trend of transforming your wedding into a literal circus! Amuse and confuse your popcorn-and-candyfloss-munching guests with fire breathers, acrobats, stilt walkers and clowns, all lead by a top hatted ringleader!

1 CIRCUS SKILLS

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