Trivia hosted by bride and groom at wedding reception?

hhumphries578

My fiance and I, and most of our family, do not dance, but my family LOVES games. I'm planning on having 2 corn hole sets at the minimum at our wedding, and we'd also like to do trivia.

Here's the thing. We don't have a DJ, and don't plan to get one. We were thinking we could host the trivia ourselves. We made a list of questions, and the questions are about...
-his home state and mine,
-both of our family lines and ancestry ("Which family has more French ancestry?" for example),
-5-6 questions about us ("Who is messier?" etc.) 

Is it ok to host our own trivia in this way? Or does that look selfish? I'm very comfortable with it, because I was a teacher and am used to microphones. Our wedding will only have about 40 guests.

I would encourage them to shuffle up their teams and grab a drink before starting, and table teams will have about 8 people. The goal was to have some funny questions, and questions that would make people talk, so that it gets everyone loosened up before games & mingling. The prizes for the winning table will be a mixture of nice gifts and funny gifts that they get to pick from a basket or that I'll just hand them and they can trade with someone. 

Opinions please. 

ILoveBeachMusic

I think since it is a small wedding and close family/friends this is fine. If it were a bigger wedding where some people didn't know each other well I would say no. I'm not a big game person so wouldn't enjoy it. However, you know your crowd.

banana468

I think it's a know your crowd thing.  Depending on the group be prepared that some just don't participate.  So many people use a wedding reception as a catch up with the rest of the group so the more casual corn hole can work easier than one where you are trying to get a room full of people to participate together.

MyNameIsNot

I'd honestly find this really odd at a wedding reception, especially the family lineage types of questions. If you focused on general knowledge type things (like your home states), it makes a little more sense. Still, I would set this up as a side activity where people opt in rather than expecting that everyone will participate from their dinner table. Even the most competitive trivia players would be quickly bored if they find themselves seated with a team who doesn't really want to play. 

I don't see a problem with you hosting it, but again it looks really weird to be asking people a bunch of questions about yourself. 

Jen4948

I guess if all your guests are family members, this would be okay, but are you inviting guests who are not family members? They may not know the answers to any of these questions and would end up just sitting there unable to participate. This might be true even of in-laws, especially if they are still relatively new to the family.