Funny wedding contests for the ransom of the bride

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Surely each of you at least once in your life attended a real Russian wedding. Some have witnessed many weddings and have noticed a trend that they all follow roughly the same scenario, with slight variations. Ransom is the most important part of the wedding ceremony, rooted in the distant past. Maybe the ransom of the bride in verse, with contests, is funny, but its essence is always in a comic test of the groom for certain qualities. A wedding procession is always an important step in the life of young people and their loved ones. Much depends on how one of the most significant days will pass. In this article, we will tell you in detail about funny wedding contests, as well as some types of cool buyouts (competitions) of the bride for the groom.

A bit of history

The phenomenon itself originates from the distant past, as already mentioned, and is inherent not only to the Russian people. For example, among Muslims, this is the so-called kalym. But only in Russian rites, the ransom is measured not only in monetary terms or gifts, but is a whole idea, to whichare prepared in advance with special predilection. The essence of it is to check the groom for bravery, and see how smart he is. On the day of the wedding, the groom had many surprises that he had to adequately overcome in order to meet his betrothed. Therefore, on the way to the bride, the groom met many obstacles in the form of riddles, tasks for strength and endurance. Moreover, having entered the house (where else it was necessary to get), the bride still had to be found! In modern society, ancient traditions also resonate. Recently, more and more traditional wedding ceremonies are being held. Of course, the same ransom was slightly deformed, but the essence remained the same. If you were lucky enough to be a witness at the wedding, then we hasten to please you that the organization of the ransom is now your task. But do not panic, in this article you will find many ideas and competitions for the bride price.

Ransom of the bride, as well as contests for the groom

Cool and varied options we bring to your attention. Choose your favorite or use all!

Contests with signatures

The whole merry crowd, led by the groom, goes out into the street and collects signatures from completely unfamiliar people passing by, causing their bewilderment. A colorful “document” is prepared in advance, which speaks of the love of our heroes, and passers-by must certify this document. The more signatures, the stronger the love will be. If you get more creative, you can make a contest with recording videos from passers-by. After all, everyone has a smartphone. Ask them to say something for themselves(literally a couple of words) or some stupid phrase like “I confirm the love of Petya and Masha.”

Quiz on the steps

On the way to the bride's house (which has not been a hut for several hundred years, as you know), pieces of paper are laid out on the steps with questions about her and her family. The groom is lucky if the bride lives on the first floor. Kind of a quiz. Questions can be in the style of "What was the name of your fiancee's first teacher?" or “What year did her parents get married?” If he does not guess, then he pays, of course. Each step is a question. The organizers can prepare questions in advance with the participation of the bride. Competitions for the ransom of the bride do not imply an analogue of the game “What? Where? When?" Therefore, questions should be simple and fun.

Swear or pay

We are still talking about steps that do not allow you to get to your beloved sooner. Guests and witnesses lay out multi-colored leaves on all the steps, for example, red and blue. The guy must overcome them (but this is practically impossible). Stepping on a red piece of paper, the groom must say a compliment to the bride, and stepping on the blue one, show how he will scold her. If he doesn't want to scold, let him pay! This continues all the way to the apartment. But even at the entrance, further trials await him. Because no one is going to deviate from the bride price scenario. Funny contests continue.

Sour water

After climbing the stairs, our hero is met by his mother-in-law or a bridesmaid with a tray of different drinks. Here everything is limited only by fantasy, but drinksshould be spicy, s alty or alcoholic with a tart taste. The host says: "With what face to drink water, with such a person and with his wife to live." Naturally, the future husband is trying to keep a cheerful or at least neutral expression while drinking sour meat, for the amusement of the guests.

Key

There he is waiting for the continuation of the sophisticated scenario of the ransom of the bride with contests. Insidious witnesses (maybe even in the role of the evil Baba Yaga) froze the key to the apartment in a glass of water, wanting to test the ingenuity of the betrothed. Or even a few glasses to completely confuse. The groom needs some way to melt the water with the help of friends and get the key, check if it fits. You will probably have to melt the next glass if the key does not fit! It will be truly spectacular.

Drink compote

There is an alternative to the contest with keys. If you didn’t have time to prepare the ice or you don’t want to bother with it, but you need to torment the groom with the extraction of the key, then there is an option. It is also suitable if the ice has already been melted, but only the front door is open, and there is still a door to the bride's room. He, like all ingenious, is simple. Pour compote into a three-liter jar, and put the desired key on the bottom. The groom is invited to drink all the contents without the help of friends. If it doesn't work, you'll have to pay.

Poems

Don't underestimate the classics - bride price scenarios in verse with contests. The groom must read to his future wife a poem that he had prepared in advance. Composed or learned, it doesn’t matter, the main thing is that the bride likes it. You can act impromptu -compose on the go. But in this case, you need to build on the character and temperament of the groom, because not many in this case will not be confused. But friends in case of impromptu can help, it will turn out even more fun.

Recognize the bride

These are already almost classic, but do not lose their zest contests for the ransom of the bride. Original ideas are not always original. Sometimes it's just a well-forgotten old thing. So, the essence of the competition is that the groom, who finally entered the house, will have a new task - to recognize his beloved among other girls. There are a lot of options here. For example:

On the finger

Meaning nameless, on which a wedding ring is put on (the groom is blindfolded and allowed to touch the fingers of the girls in turn).

By lip prints

All girls and women paint their lips with bright lipstick and leave their imprint on a piece of paper, and the groom guesses which imprint belongs to his beloved.

By smell

Girls, having generously scented themselves with their perfumes, stand in a row, and the subject in turn tries to smell the smell of his beloved from all the fragrances. Blindfolded, of course. To simplify, you should sprinkle handkerchiefs with different perfumes and let the groom smell them in turn. If you didn't guess right, let him pay.

For a kiss

Our hero is blindfolded, and the female part of the invitees kisses him on the cheek in turn.

In this semblance, bride price contests involve a very large number of variations that cannot be fully listed - this is alsoshoes, and to the touch, and even from photographs of navels, whatever the toastmaster will come up with!

And for attentiveness

The groom is offered several photos of the bride, previously modified in a graphics program … These photos, respectively, should be prepared in advance, but we are sure that someone from those present owns the Photoshop program. He must guess what is wrong with her. You can change the color of the eyes or draw a sixth finger on the hand.

Serenade

This is the ultimate fun and creative challenge. It is better to use it from the moment the groom and his friends arrived at the entrance. Here the host stops them, says a speech that "we won't let you in, well done, until you sing a serenade." But so be it, we will help you with some tools. They give all the guys the simplest things that can make sounds - pots, a jar of cereal, whistles, pipes, which is enough for imagination. Friends help, and the groom must sing a serenade for his beloved, but loudly and smoothly. Of course, he invents on the go and is unlikely to succeed in rhyme, but it will definitely be fun. The task is considered completed when a bunch of radishes are thrown from the window as a token of approval, for example. Or until the police arrive, called by the neighbors. It is also possible to redeem the bride in verse with contests as a variation. But we assure you that the serenade is much more fun.

Heroic power

Of course, let's check the groom and the strength of the heroic. In modern times, of course. Let's imagine how it canlook like:

- pick up two girlfriends;

- sit down a hundred times;

- push up off the floor;

- break the broom.

If some task fails, friends always come to the rescue, bride price contests are also intended for them, whatever one may say. For example, with a task with a broom, the groom is very unlikely to cope on his own. In this case, if friends do not help, you will have to pay. Those are the rules.

Check and ingenuity

Well, since our fiance has successfully passed all the competitions for strength, creativity and endurance, it remains to test his ingenuity and ingenuity. For this competition, pieces of paper with various chaotic words are placed in a hat or container. And our hero must, pulling out one word at a time, on the go come up with a story about how they will live happily with their future wife, using these words. Yes, so that she was colorful and eloquent and everyone heard her. Bridesmaid contests are cool a priori, so don't take the task too seriously. In the end, the ransom involves paying in case of failure of the task.

Oath

When the betrothed finally got into the apartment, solved all the riddles and guessed his bride from a dozen other beautiful girls, showed strength and intelligence, he is offered the final and most touching test. It's about an oath of allegiance. All the guests are gathering, here you can already do without the help of friends, after all, this is a very intimate speech. We warn you, this test can cause an uncontrollable stream of tears of tenderness inolder generation. The speech can be prepared in advance, it would be nice if this speech comes as a surprise to the girl. If you still want to make jokes, then there is an option to complicate the task with the help of, for example, five words that the groom must use in his speech. Of course, they are the most chaotic and completely inappropriate, such as "pumpkin", "dove", "ocean", "electric saw" and the like.

Conclusion

Summing up, I would like to say that the scenario of the ransom of the bride in verse with contests, jokes and jokes does not end there. Many years of experience in weddings has led to the fact that competitions can be found for almost every taste. The main thing in this case is a competent leader, or toastmaster, or witnesses, those people who take on the organization. They should try to channel all the flow of the ransom (and this is not a five-minute affair) in the right direction, avoid awkward moments and maintain a certain degree of fun among the guests.

We hope that the article was interesting for you, and you managed to find answers to all your questions. Thank you for your attention, dear readers. We wish you a great holiday and lots of fun.