Bride price is one of the most fun wedding ceremonies and often sets the tone for the whole event. The highlight of the program at this stage of the holiday is, of course, the bridegroom, to whom the close attention of all those present is riveted. Therefore, the excellent mood of the guests and the general atmosphere of the celebration depend on his humor, ability to keep himself, goodwill and resourcefulness.
Redemption tradition
The custom of holding a bride price before the wedding has its roots in the distant past. At that time, giving the daughter in marriage, the family lost an additional labor unit and demanded compensation for it. The ritual has reached our days in a slightly modified form. So, if before the ransom assumed the offering of any material assets, such as: money, cattle, expensive cloth and household items, nowadays it all comes down to comic trials for the groom, a huge number of fun contests and tricky questions.
Engaged in the preparation of ransom usually bridesmaids. They know the bride and groom the best they can and therefore try to ask the groom as many questions as possible. Thus, relatives can make sure how well the future spouse managed to find out his betrothed and if they give it to reliable hands.
Questions are played up in miniature scenes and are often presented in the form of a fun quiz, which is accompanied by original contests and unexpected tests.
Options for quizzes
Questions to the groom should be asked in a playful and playful manner, and the procedure itself should in no way resemble an exam. To do this, there are many interesting options, closely intertwined with drawing, singing and making comic tricks. One of the most common examples of the design of the questionnaire is "Chamomile". The organizers draw a flower with a lot of petals on a large drawing paper, each of which contains a question or a fun task. And if the groom doesn’t have problems with tearing off the petals, the next version of the questionnaire looks a bit more tricky, and to get an answer to the question it is supposed to show ingenuity and ingenuity. We are talking about balloons, inside of which are placed notes with tasks, and which are offered to burst without the help of hands.
The next, no less interesting version of the questionnaire is "Roulette". For this purpose, a tape measure is made of colored paper and cardboard and a list of questions is prepared. Groom offer to bet money and spin the wheel. In case of a correct answer, the money remains at stake for the next question, and if the answer is incorrect, they are taken to the account of the bride price. For each correct answer, the groom receives a token, and in order to proceed to the next competition, he needs to collect 5–7 such chips.
What questions to ask?
Usually all questions to the groom concern his beloved, her parents, as well as the relationship between the young. However, in the preparation of the test scenario, the organizers should avoid indelicate and overly personal questions, as well as those that may offend any of those present. In addition, the questions should not be vulgar, relate to features of appearance and affect the past relationship of young people. Below are the most popular questions that can be combined with comic mini-tasks or fun trials.
- Appearance of the bride. Making up the questions for this block, the organizers should dwell only on some common points, without going into details.If, for example, the bride has a snub nose and this, then questions or jokes on this subject should be strictly prohibited. It is interesting to beat the question of the color of the eyes of his beloved, where instead of describing the color, the groom is asked to draw it. And the desired shade among the proposed pencils should not be. In this case, the groom will need to be smart and get the desired color by mixing several others. Oral questions about the appearance can be replaced by small tests. For example, show the groom several shoe insoles and suggest choosing the one that belongs to his bride, or give several ribbons of different lengths and let him determine which one fits the size of the bride's waist.
- Plans for a joint future. This set of questions is aimed at finding out how young people fit together and whether their views on the future family agree enough. In this thematic section, you can ask the groom about the place that the bride wants to visit, as well as how many children she would like to have. You can also find out how, according to the groom, the bride will call after the wedding of his parents. It will be interesting to clarify whether the bridegroom knows the future dream of the future wife and whether he is able to fulfill it.
- Numbers and dates. This block is very extensive and includes the following questions:
- What day did the young meet?
- What was the time at the time of the first meeting?
- What time was the bride born?
- How many months after they met, was the offer made?
- What size winter shoes does the bride wear?
- How many windows in the house of the bride and how many steps leads to her apartment?
- How many minutes a day does a cone near the mirror spend?
- How many millimeters of growth in the future wife?
- Name the exact number of bridesmaids.
- Bride preferences. In this block of questions you can ask what flowers she does not like, whether she prefers dinner at a restaurant to a barbecue on the river bank, what qualities she considers most valuable in people and what music she listens to in her free time. You can also find out if the bridegroom knows about why the bride fell in love with her, what her hobby is, how she likes to spend her holidays and what perfume she has been using lately. Correct answers to these questions should be recorded with the organizers. For each incorrect or inaccurate answer, the groom gives a symbolic amount or pays off with sweets. If sweets and money come to an end, then as a compensation for the wrong answer, the young man is offered to sing, dance or perform a comic task.
- Questions with a trick. This block uses tricky questions that suggest two or more of the correct options, and sometimes a detailed answer. So, the groom is usually asked:
- What spirits does the future spouse use in summer and winter?
- What is the size of the bride's leg by European standards?
- What was the day of the week when the young people applied to the registry office?
- What toys did the bride love as a child?
- Does the bride have awards and certificates?
- How many fours in the school certificate of the bride and in what subjects?
Variants of complex questions can be mass, however, when compiling the questionnaire, the organizers should alternate them with simpler and more obvious questions. Otherwise, the groom may have an inferiority complex, and the guests will be bored.
- Cool options. The questions in this block do not have a specific topic and apply to all areas of life. Moreover, both the question itself and the answer to it should have a light content, be funny and sometimes resemble a pun. For example, you can ask the groom why he decided to marry our bride, and, in general, list the reasons for marrying him. It does not hurt to find out that the young spouse would prefer to bring her to bed: dumplings or coffee? They also ask the groom to suggest what the future wife will be pleased with more: a bag of potatoes or a bouquet of roses, and whether she prefers cleaning the house to a rest on the beach.Then the bride and groom are asked to name ten ways how to hide the nest egg in the apartment, what the bride looks like in the summer sky and list all the possible colleagues of the bride by the names and surnames.
- Mother-in-law and father-in-law. In this block, the groom is usually asked what were the first words of the mother-in-law at the time of her acquaintance with her future son-in-law, on what day of the week this year she will celebrate her birthday and how many years in the test. You can ask about what the mother-in-law will regale her son-in-law at a dinner party and what dances she does not like.
Other forms of testing
In addition to posing direct questions, the comic quiz can be diversified by solving rebuses and crosswords. To do this, the organizers make a list of questions that involve only unambiguous answers, and, based on this data, draw a crossword puzzle grid. Childish rebuses with painted animals and toys look original, and the children's hobby or current hobby of the future wife will be the answer to this.
Bride price is one of the most striking episodes of a wedding celebration.so you need to try to turn it into an exciting and fun game that would be remembered for a long time by all guests of the holiday.
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