Wedding reception games, run from one phone
The dinner is booked, the speeches are written, and somebody has to make the night feel alive between them. Whirl is the reception’s games layer: seven live games one person runs from a single phone onto the big screen, five printable packs for the tables, and a keepsake for the couple at the end.
Nobody at the wedding downloads anything. Nobody makes an account. One payment covers the whole night.
Wedding shoe game questions, and the game done properly
The shoe game is the modern reception’s standard fixture, and it is the reason most people come looking for something like this. The couple sits back to back, each holding one of their own shoes and one of their partner’s. The MC reads a question and both of them raise the shoe belonging to whoever the answer is.
Whirl carries a hundred and fifty questions and puts each one on the venue screen at a size the back of the room can read, keeps a live match tally, and lands the reveal on both answers at the same instant. Here are twenty to start you off, free, whether you use the app or not:
- Who said I love you first?
- Who takes longer to get ready?
- Who is the better cook?
- Who thinks they are the better cook?
- Who apologises first?
- Who is more likely to cry today?
- Who hogs the blanket?
- Who is the better driver?
- Who refuses to ask for directions?
- Who spends longer choosing what to watch than watching it?
- Who would last longer without their phone?
- Who laughs at their own jokes more?
- Who is the better dancer, honestly?
- Who is going to be first on the dance floor tonight?
- Who does the small kind things nobody notices?
- Who is more competitive at board games?
- Who will be the softer parent one day?
- Who was more nervous about their speech?
- Who is the lucky one?
- Who loves the other one more, and think carefully?
Every question in the app is framed as “who”, so nothing presumes a role by gender. You choose how Whirl describes you: bride and groom, two brides, two grooms, or names only.
When to play the shoe game
The professionals agree on this and it is worth following. Play it while the band sets up or the DJ takes a break, for about ten minutes, which is twenty five to thirty questions at roughly twenty seconds each. Never during dinner service. Never at the very end of the night, when the floor is full and nobody wants to sit down. Whirl’s run sheet has it in the right place before you touch anything.
Games for wedding guests, without a single download
The live games run from one phone: the shoe game, table trivia on a full quiz board, guest bingo called as the night happens, the couple’s love story performed with words shouted from the tables, the anniversary dance with its countdown on the screen, their childhood photos while everyone guesses the ages, and door prize draws you scratch with a thumb.
Wedding table trivia, printed and live
Table trivia works two ways. Live, it is a quiz board on the venue screen with the tables as teams and the scores animating between courses. Printed, it is a quiz card for every table with an answer sheet for whoever is holding the microphone. Fill in the Couple Bank first and the questions are about the couple, with the answers already on the MC’s sheet.
Printable wedding games for every table
Five packs, generated on your phone with the couple’s names and date on them, in A4 or US Letter:
- Mingle bingo, a different find-a-guest card for every guest, so nobody sits alone through the drinks.
- Table trivia cards, one per table, with the answer sheet.
- Wedding I-Spy, a photo hunt guests shoot on their own phones and send you afterwards.
- Advice and date night cards for every place setting, collected into the keepsake after.
- The kids’ table pack, twenty activity sheets with a word search generated fresh for your wedding.
Kids wedding activity ideas, solved
There are six children at table nine, dinner is ninety minutes long, and their parents have been dreading this part since the invitation arrived. The kids’ pack is colouring in the wedding’s own style, a word search that is different at every wedding, drawing prompts, a children’s I-Spy, and a Best Behaved Table certificate. Print it, add pencils, and be thanked all night.
A wedding MC script that runs itself
Whirl’s run sheet is the evening in order, with the timing wisdom written underneath each slot: cards on the tables before anyone sits down, nothing at all during dinner, trivia between courses, the shoe game while the band sets up, the anniversary dance just before the party set. Drag anything anywhere. Tick each one off as the night runs. Every slot opens straight into its game.
The anniversary dance comes with its script: every married couple to the floor, then count the years up until one couple is left standing, and they hand their advice to the couple of the day. Their names and their advice go into the keepsake.
A keepsake at the end
The shoe game’s compatibility score, the trivia winners, the longest married couple and what they said, the performed love story, the awards, and every advice card you type in from the printed ones. Compiled into something the couple keeps.
One payment for the whole night
Browse every deck and preview every pack for free. One payment unlocks every game and every pack forever. No subscription, no renewals, and nobody at the wedding downloads a thing.
Planning the rest of the wedding? Posy is the maid of honour’s planner, Sash runs the bachelorette, and Bow runs the bridal shower and kitchen tea.