The wedding party is the time when you and all the guests end the wedding. The last part of your wedding. But how do you ensure a dazzling opening to the evening? In this blog, I'll share some wonderful ways to get off to an unforgettable start.
Surely the most popular opening during a wedding party is an opening dance. Where one newlyweds are already rehearsing, others get nerves from such a first dance. Why an opening dance anyway? It's a great way to open the dance floor and show off the wedding clothes to all evening guests. Especially when the opening dance is accompanied by an announcement by the DJ or a band and a cool entrance. An opening dance is also a traditional way to open the dance floor. You often follow the dance with a dance with your parents. The bride with her father and the groom with his mother. Then you can pull the guests onto the dance floor.
Why not start a wedding with a spectacular fireworks show? DJs often offer (cold) fireworks fountains. Sometimes even in combination with a dry ice smoke machine. This creates a magical effect during the opening of your party. You can then walk through the low-hanging smoke and past the fireworks fountains together at that one special song. Please discuss this with your wedding location.
Music is an important part of a party and a band can often easily open a wedding party. Live music can be exciting and a band often has contact with the audience. They are then able to respond well to the atmosphere and can then often adapt the music to the mood of the guests. Keep in mind that a band often has to be chosen in combination with a DJ. After all, they can't provide music all night long.
Let your guests get immediately involved by starting with, for example, a quiz about you. A game where, for example, the dance partners must be chosen, so that everyone has to dance.
How cool is it to surprise your guests with a flash mob. An initiative that can be taken by you or organized by your guests as a surprise. For example, practicing a flash mob can be done by a select number of day guests during the reception or during your absence. How cool is it when you pretend to open the party with an opening dance and after ten seconds the dance is taken over by a group of people.
Opening a wedding party with a video is a creative and personal way to kick off the party night. After all, video creates emotions and takes your guests directly into your story. Most evening guests haven't experienced your day themselves and how cool is it when the wedding party starts with a video about the day itself. Projected on a big screen with big speakers. The ideal way to get the evening off to a good start. But of course, variations are also possible. The video projected onto a large sheet of paper, where you hide during the video and jump through after the video.
What do you think about congratulating and opening the party all at once? This is possible, for example, with a hedge formed by all your guests. Of course, everyone already has a welcome drink. While toasting, you walk through the hedge and at the end of the hedge, the opening song is by the DJ.
In Belgium, this French “handkerchief” song is the way to celebrate your love. All guests will spontaneously start waving and turning the handkerchiefs when the song starts. This song causes spontaneous enthusiasm. As a newlyweds, you can set an example by walking in waving a handkerchief.
Cutting the wedding cake is one of the special moments during a wedding day. You can make that moment even more special by moving the cutting to the beginning of the party night. Then choose a song that is special to you. Do you especially want a bang opening? Then choose songs that immediately set the mood, such as “Raise your Glass” by Pink or “Happy” by Pharrell Williams. “I gotta feeling” by Black Eyed Peas also leaves little to the imagination.
