Wedding photo scavenger hunt: 24 tasks you can print
A wedding is the party where most photos are taken and where the couple end up with the fewest. They sit at the table, they are greeted by everyone, and they never get round the room. Everything happening at the other end of it, they never see.
The tasks below are written for that particular day. Several of them point at the best man, the kitchen and the people who travelled furthest, which is to say the people who never get photographed themselves.
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All 24 are selected to start with. Remove the ones that do not fit your day, choose how many cards per sheet, and print.
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Here is how they will look
PHOTO TASK
The bride's shoes, before she puts them on
PHOTO TASK
The groom's hands
PHOTO TASK
The oldest guest
PHOTO TASK
Someone wiping away a tear during a speech
PHOTO TASK
The bouquet somewhere it does not belong
PHOTO TASK
The best man's notes
PHOTO TASK
The two guests who have known the couple longest
PHOTO TASK
The table decorations, before anyone touches them
PHOTO TASK
The first dance, shot from behind
PHOTO TASK
A child who is bored
PHOTO TASK
The couple when they think nobody is looking
PHOTO TASK
The cake before the first cut
PHOTO TASK
The guest who travelled furthest to be here
PHOTO TASK
Everyone who shares the couple's surname
PHOTO TASK
The rings in someone else's hand
PHOTO TASK
Someone dancing with their shoes off
PHOTO TASK
The venue while it is still empty
PHOTO TASK
The best hat
PHOTO TASK
The people standing at the bar
PHOTO TASK
A selfie with someone from the other family's side
PHOTO TASK
Something borrowed and something blue in one photo
PHOTO TASK
The last person still dancing
PHOTO TASK
The couple's transport
PHOTO TASK
A photo the couple could not possibly have taken themselves
Why a wedding needs them
There is usually a photographer, and he is solving a different problem: the photos you ordered. He is not standing by the children's table at half past ten, and he has gone home before the last person stops dancing.
A photo task fills that gap. It costs nothing, it gives the guests something to talk about, and it gives the couple photos of a day they only saw from their own chair.
The most important task on the list
“A photo the couple could not possibly have taken themselves.” It is last on purpose, and it is the only one that describes the whole point: everything the couple missed while they were in the middle of it.
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Common questions
Where should the cards go?
At every setting, not in a stack. A card by the plate gets read while the guest waits for the starter. A stack on the bar gets touched by the three keenest people.
Does it get in the photographer's way?
No, because the guests shoot somewhere other than he does. Tell him beforehand so he knows why people are wandering about with phones, and several photographers actually find it helpful: they get left alone to do their own set-ups.
How many tasks for a wedding of 80 guests?
12-15 is plenty. Deselect the rest above, and put the easy ones first: “the best hat” gets people started, where “the best man's notes” takes nerve to ask for.
What do we do with the photos afterwards?
That is where the tasks can be lost. Put a QR code next to the cards, so the guests upload straight away and everything lands in one gallery the couple gets afterwards. No app, no account.
The cards are half of it. The photos are the rest
Put a QR code next to the task cards, so the photos land in one place instead of on eighty phones.