Ideas for a meet-n-greet party?

Question

I'm having a meet-n-greet party for my wedding party (bridesmaids & ushers). Some of them have never met. So I want to do something interactive and fun. I was thinking bowling or mini-golf, or my sister suggested a games night with games like Cranium and stuff. Any more ideas?

Answer 1

I think the game night sounds great. Bowling does as well but I think with the games there would be a little more interaction between all of them. With bowling you may just end up with the ones that already know each other pairing up, as with games everyone is on there own to get to know each other. Am I making sense?

Order some food in, have some mixed drinks or beer (if you want) and sit around the table and play away. You could even have a game of poker (that's always fun).

I think you've got the right idea though! Good Luck

Answer 2

Bowling is a great idea, especially if you have a place which does glow-bowling.

Answer 3

Remember that the wedding party doesn't need to be best buddies, so don't feel upset if they don't wind up being good friends afterwards.

I'd personally just invite everyone to your home or out someplace (bowling alley, restaurant, bar), have some yummy food and drinks, and maybe a loosely-structured activity if you feel you must have one (mini golf, etc.). Don't go nuts planning games or icebreakers or anything, or else it could wind up feeling like a work conference.  

Answer 4

Those sound like great ideas. I would probably do a pizza/game night. Don't forget to play Scattergories (as well as Cranium)!! It is the Best! I think the best way for them to interact would be in a smaller setting like at your house for game night. With other things, they may spread out to much and not really get to know each other as well. Except for when you all sit down and eat together.

If you guys are all pretty dorky (as me and my friends are) you could go to a roller rink and rent old-fashioned skates (you know - the ones with 4 wheels!) and hang out and eat there. That might be a little harder to keep everyone in a group to really get to know each other, but it would definitely be fun and would make some great memories! (and pictures!)

Of course, if it's this fall you could always do a Hay Ride (provided no one is allergic!) and maybe a haunted house together, then have a little get-together back at your place. Or a corn maze. I have friends in Seattle who do a corn maze every fall.

(I like bowling and mini-golf, but was in a car accident that can sometimes make it difficult to do some things. I also have foot issues from when I was in the Army. So sometimes I go for the less-active, but still fun things. But if you and all of them are able-bodied, those other ideas are great, too.)

Answer 5

I think Game Night would be a good idea, sounds kinda fun, I might borrow this idea!  

Answer 6

Yummy food is really an icebreaker, find something that everybody likes. Try a baked potato bar, taco bar.

If you want, you could have kitchen night, pair off people and let them cook something, or find some recipes with little or no cooking, and turn them loose with creating. Rice krispie treats, haystacks, dipping little pretzels into white chocolate, chex mix, velveeta and salsa or velveeta and chili dip. . Or give everybody a course to fix, one gets the salad, another the appetizer, you get the picture.

Have them  make a couple's pizza, decorate cookies,dip pretzel sticks into chocolate and or caramel,  make caramel apples. Even pit the boys against the girls in a cooking contest, you and the groom get to judge. If kitchen space is limited, one group can have a time limit, then the other group can cook.

Make something for the wedding, find a craft project that both the ladies and  the gents would like. One could be making a wedding cake out of towels, I've seen the how to here.