so last night I was talking to my finace, and he told me that from his side, his friends are going to be providing some entertainment other than choreographed dances on our mehndi (his sisters and cousins will be doing those).
One set of friends will be doing a performance: they call themselves “The PAK-street boys” (a parody of the Backstreet boys). They have translated one of the backstreet boys songs into Urdu, and will be singing and dancing along to it.
Another set of his friends will be doing a parody of how we met bollywood style - which will include singing and dancing.
Now, since mehndi’s are usually a competition between the girls and guys side, what can my side do to beat their side??? I only have girls on my side. My brothers would never in a million years dance, and my guy cousins are very young. My guy cousins have said they will do a dance (mix of Michael Jackson, Soulja Boy, etc.), but they are only 11/12.
So what else can the girls from my side do to make sure we are just as good??? Please help!
Just saw this threat... get your girl friends/girl cousins to mock the Pak Street guys :P
Do you know that set of friends well? If you do, you could let your girls know specific habits of them or their dance styles, etc and just mock them :)
Sing songs where you kind off diss their family, either the folk songs that some aunty ji will know, or use some songs that you know that kind off diss them or even change the lyrics so you're dissing them.
Or if your girls are really good at dancing have like a dance-off.
Or they could do a parody of some other situation and involving crossdressing of some sort.
Or they could translate the lyrics to a urdu/bollywood song and dance to it.
we won at my sisters mehndi while singing a song, i mean screaming singing on a song while dancing on it like idiots xD our whole family begun to sing it, and when boys want to give it bck then we screamed really high tht they give up :p
here is the song :p
larka tumhara kawara reh jata k mano hamara ehsaan k larki ne haan karti xD
we repeat it many times :p then moved to an another dancing song so we could end it xD
i went to a wedding where the girl cousins decided to play the newlywed game with a twist.
the bride and groom were asked questions before hand and at the reception they were asked the questions infront of everyone. they were very random things like what's such and such's favorite type of pizza or car or bollywood film and so forth. it's groom vs. bride and so whenever the groom did well he got a point on a poster that another cousin was holding. his side was hooting and cheering so when the bride did well we were screaming and clapping for her support. the fun part was at the end of the game because the host of the game said something like "oh it looks like a close race but to give ______ a chance this final question will be worth (and list 100 points or something obvious to secure the win)." naturally the side that's ahead is like booo bad idea and the host is like common let's be nice and give them a chance they are a guest in our city or whatever (add some personal touch there).
Final question was asked to both the groom and bride. If you had to gve your best impression of the bride/groom how would it be? They take the mic and start acting like one another and it's hilarious! man my friend went for a low blow and made fun of him for being such a mama's boy it was tastefully done, no hard feelings and was just super funny. the host puts her hand over the groom and everyone claps then over the bride and whoever has more applause from the crowd wins. And her side wins.
both ways it's a fun game because it's entertaining, relatives that are not familiar with the couple can kinda get to know them and it has the whole room smiling, laughing and cheering.
^ Similar game for a few receptions I've been to:
The bride and groom stand (or sit) back to back and have one shoe each of the bride and groom (the bride holds one of her own shoe and one of the groom - groom does the same)
They are both asked the same question and they hold up whichever shoe they think the answer applies to.
For example: Who is most likely to start a fight?
So if the bride thinks its the groom, she holds up his shoe... if the groom thinks its the bride, he holds up her shoe.
It was lots of fun because most of the time the couple is honest :)
One of them was so funny because everyone felt for the groom - he was most likely to say sorry, most likely to cook, most likely to be lovey dovey, etc
not spicy girls - but call themselves the MASALA GIRLS! lol
u can always do a skit/dance to make fun of the guys side, or even ur own side for that matter.
we do that all the time...just merge some songs together that remind you of each member of the family. those are always funny. Like in Hum sath sath hain...how they did that skit for the new bride? We did the same song on my brother's mehndi. it was hilarious.
games are good..but they are more for bridal showers (or jack and jill showers).
u could have a dance off...or somethign like Soul Train style.
the skit of how the bride and groom met too is fun too! truly bollywood ishtyle. U can blow up pics of the faces of the bride and groom and make a mask of it, and make them as teh characters. and use typical bollywood songs and dance moves.
ok, I have another question. All the girls dancing from my side keeping asking me "what song/songs should we dance too?" Now the problem is, I hardly ever watch Bollywood movies, so I have no idea what the latest, most danceable songs are.
Can people tell me some songs? I literally have one song on my list, please help me by adding songs!
i went to a wedding where the girl cousins decided to play the newlywed game with a twist.
the bride and groom were asked questions before hand and at the reception they were asked the questions infront of everyone. they were very random things like what's such and such's favorite type of pizza or car or bollywood film and so forth. it's groom vs. bride and so whenever the groom did well he got a point on a poster that another cousin was holding. his side was hooting and cheering so when the bride did well we were screaming and clapping for her support. the fun part was at the end of the game because the host of the game said something like "oh it looks like a close race but to give ______ a chance this final question will be worth (and list 100 points or something obvious to secure the win)." naturally the side that's ahead is like booo bad idea and the host is like common let's be nice and give them a chance they are a guest in our city or whatever (add some personal touch there).
Final question was asked to both the groom and bride. If you had to gve your best impression of the bride/groom how would it be? They take the mic and start acting like one another and it's hilarious! man my friend went for a low blow and made fun of him for being such a mama's boy it was tastefully done, no hard feelings and was just super funny. the host puts her hand over the groom and everyone claps then over the bride and whoever has more applause from the crowd wins. And her side wins.
both ways it's a fun game because it's entertaining, relatives that are not familiar with the couple can kinda get to know them and it has the whole room smiling, laughing and cheering.
@Vertical, if you go on line, and in Google, type in "Newlywed game questions", it shuld give you a whole list of questions you can ask. just for fun, sometimes me and my fiance play on the phone, just to get to know each other better.