Entertainment at a religious wedding

Aaze · June 25, 2014, 5:59pm

Re: Entertainment at a religious wedding

Weddings are not for entertaining guests, people. WEDDINGS ARE NOT FOR ENTERTAINING GUESTS.

For God sake, if they want to be entertained, they can go to Umar Shareef stage drama. They come there to be part of your happiness, not to watch a show.

Here are my suggestions.

Make sure that people sit around Banquet style tables so they can socialize.

Have a printed program at every table so people know the arrival of barat time, nikah time and dinner time, and strictly follow that schedule. People get bored when things are getting delayed and they have no idea what is going on.

Have hosts on both men and women side keep going from table to table for small talk with every guest, and introduce guests on each table to each other, so they can socialize. It’s very irritating when family from both sides keep giggling at their reserved tables, while rest of the guests sit at back tables like ulloos.

Have plenty of appetizers available from the beginning. No one feels bored when they are eating.

if possible, have a separate section for kids with some games and stuff for them. Have an adult or two there all the time to watch.

Have good items for dinner.

At the end, no one will remember your wedding for the theme or entry songs or dance numbers, but for the arrangement, food and on schedule execution.

This pretty much.

I enjoy both kind of weddings but I really like the segregated once because for some reason, the girls just mingle around a lot more if their husbands aren’t around.

I would say desi segregated weddings are more a cultural thing than a religious one since the groom/male family members do enter the girls side while in arab culture they do it more properly i.e no males or just for a limited time but I think that’s because a lot of them do hijab plus they wear pretty revealing clothes