6 Unique Winnipeg Wedding Social Ideas
It’s wedding season, and in Winnipeg, that can only mean one thing: Wedding socials!
Winnipeg is famous for our pre-marital parties — in fact, Manitoba is the only place you’ll find wedding socials. It’s on our list of things you’ll only ever see or hear in Winnipeg.
But, while wedding socials are a uniquely Winnipeg tradition, locally the concept may have grown a bit stale. That’s why Rumor’s Comedy Club — your destination for comedy in Winnipeg — has compiled some fun ideas to spice up your wedding fundraiser. So, if you’re ready to start planning your wedding social, read on for some inspiration.
Trivia night
Spice up your wedding social with a trivia night.
All you really need to do is come up with some brain-stumping questions, and someone to ask the questions and keep score. Then you can sell answer cards to competing teams and put the proceeds towards your wedding.
You can make the trivia your whole fundraiser or a part of a larger wedding social. Offer up prizes for the top performing teams, and badda-boom badda-bing, you’ve got a fun and unique wedding fundraiser.
And if you don’t feel like running the trivia yourself, you can easily hire a local trivia host to do all the work for you.
Stand-up comedy show
You can put a new spin on an old tradition by booking your wedding social at a comedy club in Winnipeg, like Rumor’s.
We’ll take care of printing your event, tickets and you won’t have to worry about arranging a liquor license or food — we’ve got that covered. All you need to do is sell your tickets and bring your silent auction prizes to Rumor’s on the big day.
Then you and your friends and family can just sit back and enjoy the world-class stand-up comedy you’ve come to expect from Rumor’s.
Just give us a call at 204-488-4520 so we can fill you in on all the details.
Holiday social
Consider taking advantage of seasonal holidays for your wedding social.
Sometimes it can be difficult to get people out to your wedding social, but if you plan it to coincide with a festive holiday like St. Patrick’s Day or Halloween, you capitalize on people’s dedication to celebration.
If you choose to go this route, you’ll want to decorate your venu appropriately, and procure party favors like green hats and maybe green beer dye for St. Patrick’s Day, or noise makers for a New Year’s Eve wedding social.
If you’re doing a Halloween social, you might want to arrange for a pumpkin carving contest and a costume contest to get people really involved.
Themed social
Speaking of costumes, you don’t have to wait for a particular holiday to dress up. Give your wedding social a theme and encourage your attendees to dress the part. You’ll want to decorate the venue to be on-theme, and you might think about tailoring your drink and food options to fit the theme as well.
Some wedding social ideas include:
- Great Gatsby era
- Sports
- Your favorite movie (Harry Potter, Grease, etc.)
- 1930s Gangster
- Superhero
- Western
- 70s, 80s, 90s
The list literally goes on and on.
Casino social
Feeling lucky? Roll the dice on a casino themed social!
Just call up a mobile casino rental service and they’ll provide everything you need, including blackjack tables, casino chips, cards, and dealers — for a fee of course.
Once you’re set up, you can charge your attendees a set amount of money for a set amount of casino chips, but instead of playing for real money, they’ll play for prizes that you’ve gathered (real money and gift cards cannot be used for casino night prizes).
Hire a name band
Winnipeg has a legendary music scene, so why not take advantage by hiring one of them for your wedding social.
Just about every Winnipegger has heard the same old wedding social tunes their entire lives — Red Red Wine, Shook Me All Night Long, Mony Mony — it can get a little repetitive. Hiring a local band to play some sets of their original tunes will help make your wedding social a memorable one.
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Leave the hard work to us
Organizing a wedding social can be cumbersome. You’ve got to arrange a venue, liquor licenses, silent auction prizes, decorations, alcohol, food… It can be a bit much.
But you can offload a lot of the work by having your wedding social at Rumor’s. We host dozens of wedding socials every year, and the benefits are real. We’ll print off all of your event tickets, and you won’t have to waste your time running around acquiring alcohol and a liquor license — we’ve got that all covered.
And while your cousin had crappy lunch meat and mustard for food, our full dinner menu will make your wedding social memorable for the right reasons.
Check out our upcoming events and give us a call at 204-488-4520 to work out the details of your wedding social at Rumor’s!
“Rumor’s is always a good time. I love to see the variety of comedians, big and small, that come through Winnipeg and always stop here.” - Owen L.