One of the win-win ideas for organizing any wedding is a wedding lottery. Why is this entertainment so popular? Firstly, as a rule, it is very funny. You just need to pick up the necessary items, skillfully beat them, and the comments of the guests will help make the competition even more fun. Secondly, believe me, everyone loves gifts. Let your wedding be organized in a chic palace, a country restaurant or outdoors, appropriate souvenirs (from Faberge eggs and champagne bottles to sweets or toilet rolls) will delight your guests and make the celebration memorable and unusual. So, consider the main points of the popular contest.
Wedding Lottery: Prizes
The main principle of the competition: for each guest - a gift. Sometimes organizers use “dummy” tickets or make every fifth ticket a winner, say. But it is better to refuse such savings.
A variety of things can act as souvenirs. It is interesting to beat both office supplies (paper clips, notebooks, envelopes, felt-tip pens, erasers), and “soap-shaving” accessories (massage or toothbrush, wet wipes, a mirror, washcloth, deodorant, small towel), and household goods (corkscrew, pins, bags, clothespins, candles and candle holders), and products (fruits, sweets, spice and drink bags, sweets), and much more.
Come up with special souvenirs related to the life of the newlyweds. Is the bride from Orenburg? Magnets, calendars and postcards with city views will be a great prize! Did the groom play table tennis in his childhood ? In this case, ping-pong balls are a great gift for guests. And the newlyweds will undoubtedly like such a "personalized" lottery.
A lot of guests gathered for the wedding, but is the budget limited? Who said souvenirs are certainly something tangible? Guests can be “gifted” with the smiles of the bride and groom, a dance with the mother-in-law, a kiss by the witness, an invitation to dinner at the newlyweds' house, and a song performed by musicians. In the case of particularly austerity, you can make most of the prizes just like that. Agree, an unusual lottery!
For a wedding dedicated to some topic, souvenirs should be selected appropriate. For weddings in the French style, almond dragees, key rings in the form of the Eiffel Tower or CDs with French songs are suitable. For a
rainbow wedding, prepare a red scarf, orange oranges, yellow toilet paper, a green comb, a blue pen, a blue phone case, purple sequins. A celebration in the Soviet style will require items of recent shortage as prizes: buy buckwheat, bananas, a pack of tea "with an elephant", nylon tights.
Wedding Lottery: tickets
The easiest option is to specify the lottery ticket number directly on the invitation. True, they are often sent to the whole family. And souvenirs should go to each participant in the wedding. Therefore, it is better to print tickets separately by the number of guests. Design is arbitrary. If you want, you can make them in the style of the whole wedding. Sometimes “lotteries” become works of art. They put photographs of the bride and groom on them, the date of the drawing indicate the day of the marriage. Especially “hand-woven” newlyweds even make a “magnetic strip” on tickets, covering the indicated number with a mixture of silver acrylic paint and liquid soap in a ratio of 2 to 1. Well, and those who allow the funds order exclusive lottery tickets with scratch strip in printing companies .
Tickets can simply be handed out to guests before the start of the celebration. But you can invite those invited to buy real "lotteries", which they will exchange at the entrance for wedding lottery tickets . And Superloto or Keno tickets will go to the newlyweds and, possibly, will bring something of value to the family budget.
What is a wedding lottery? Cool!
Simple distribution of prizes will not bring much joy. For a successful competition, you must first prepare humorous descriptions of the subjects being played. “With this subject the world will become brighter and brighter” (light bulb). "Such a tool will instantly stop the most severe cold" (clothespin). “No matter how fashion changes, no matter what designers come up with, this item will never become obsolete” (shoelaces). It turns out a very funny lottery for the wedding! In poems you can come up with even more fun "anti-advertising" to the handed objects. “Unfortunately, you have a rusty nail, although you are a very valuable guest.” “We will have some fun: you - kiss the neighbor on the right!” “There is no need for a souvenir than a garbage bag.” "Whether you need it or not, here's a lipstick for you." “You are lucky, you will be convinced, for you a glass - get drunk!” (a glass of vodka). Such rhymes can be invented by yourself or use ready-made samples.
Usually the lead is the contest. A good toastmaster will turn a lottery not into giving away gifts for free, but into fun entertainment for the whole company.