Kissing Games

achiduck

I read a magazine article recently the suggested having your guests throw a buck or two into a hat that gets donated to the charity of your choice. Not really sure I like that idea, I'm pretty sure I'd be unimpressed if I attended a wedding that did it.

What did you do/are you doing for your kissing game?

Edit - the article also suggested the bigger the donation, the longer the kiss.

opalsky007

We didn't do a kissing game.

kcscejal

Nothing.

Stackeye210

I've never once heard of kissing games at a wedding?  What is that? 

I've heard of kissing games at a 13 year old party, but I'm way past 13. 

hz80408

Ditto pp.

alixzafiris

We didn't do 'em. I think they're lame.

LDYGTR13

Say WHA??

achiduck

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[QUOTE]We didn't do a kissing game.
Posted by opalsky007[/QUOTE]

Did guests just clink thier glasses, or is this unpopular in your area?

Stackeye210

OH THAT.  No, we didn't do that at all.

hz80408

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Kissing Games : Did guests just clink thier glasses, or is this unpopular in your area?
Posted by achiduck[/QUOTE]

To get DH and I to kiss, guests clinked their glasses; although we occassionally did just bc we felt like it

[Deleted User]

Never heard of a kissing game before.

And I am not sure what throwing money in a bucket and donating it to a charity has to do with kissing. Maybe I am missing something here.

georgia_bride09

We didn't do that either.

laurenclaire1386

WTH is a kissing game?

[Deleted User]

NM. Total brain fart.

cengle

Are you talking about when they have little bells that people ring when they want the bride and groom to kiss?
Because I was thinking of a whole other type of kissing game, and it made me flash back to junior high.

We did not do this. We kissed when we wanted to.

achiduck

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[QUOTE]<strong>I've never once heard of kissing games at a wedding?  What is that?</strong>  I've heard of kissing games at a 13 year old party, but I'm way past 13. 
Posted by Stackeye210[/QUOTE]

Things that your guests have to do to get the couple to kiss during the reception. Such as:

Copy cat game - couples come up and kiss and whatever they do the Bride & Groom have to do.

Singing - sing a song that has the word "love" in it.

Q&A - Guests pull a question about B&G if they get it right, the B&G kiss, if they get it wrong they have to kiss another guest.

Etcetera.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

People just clinked stuff to get us to kiss.  I think that will just happen at a lot of weddings, whether the bride and groom want it to happen or not.  Unless they want their guests to do something else - like, sing a song with the word "love" in it or something.

The money hat sounds horrifically trashy, and I'm from North Da-fucking-kota.  We get away with doing completely terrible etiquette faux-pas up here and I would NEVER want that at my wedding reception.

Moneypenny424

Guests clinked glasses a couple times, but we didn't have a "kissing game."

[Deleted User]

My Aunt was obsessed with clinking her fork on her glass to get us to kiss. It got real old after a while and we stopped doing it. She even broke a damn glass.

baystateapple

People clinked glasses I think once, and we kissed.  But we didn't do any other games.  And yeah, I would side-eye any "kissing game" that involved money.

opalsky007

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Kissing Games : Did guests just clink thier glasses, or is this unpopular in your area?
Posted by achiduck[/QUOTE]

<div>No. They're not, like, scorned, or anything, they're just not done.</div><div>
</div><div>I have literally never been to a wedding where there were kissing games.</div>

cengle

This might be a really dumb question. But, how does putting money in a hat have to do with anything? Like, if someone puts money in, the B&G kiss? How would you even know someone was doing so? Is it announced? The logistics of this seem weird to me, or else I'm just completely dense and missing something obvious

achiduck

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[QUOTE]People just clinked stuff to get us to kiss.  I think that will just happen at a lot of weddings, whether the bride and groom want it to happen or not.  Unless they want their guests to do something else - like, sing a song with the word "love" in it or something. <strong>The money hat sounds horrifically trashy, and I'm from North Da-fucking-kota.  We get away with doing completely terrible etiquette faux-pas up here and I would NEVER want that at my wedding reception.
</strong>Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]

That's what I thought too. It's amazing how many bad ideas there are in wedding magazines.

[Deleted User]

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[QUOTE]This might be a really dumb question. But, how does putting money in a hat have to do with anything? Like, if someone puts money in, the B&G kiss? How would you even know someone was doing so? Is it announced? The logistics of this seem weird to me, or else I'm just completely dense and missing something obvious
Posted by cengle[/QUOTE]

Ok, glad to know it wasn't just me. I thought the same thing, cengle.

mica178

We didn't do any of that.  I remember that stuff from weddings I attended as a kid, but I haven't seen it since the 80s. 

I love kissing H, but I don't want to do it at the command of others, if that makes sense.

As I've said before, I'm not a fan of any exercise that involves guests having to pull out their wallets during the reception, no matter how worthy the cause seems.

aragx6

I guess I've heard the clinking the glass thing before, but that's it. And dear god -- guests giving cash and buckets are two things my wedding will hopefully have little of!

Moneypenny424

I was a BM in a wedding with a kissing game.  People were supposed to do creative kisses (you know, get dipped and get a kiss.  Throw someone up in the air and kiss them) and then give $1 to the bride and groom.  I was unaware of this financial aspect until after I'd given my ex-BF a kiss...and then realized neither of us had cash.  Oh well.

hlq2011

I think anything beyond clinking glasses is dumb, in my personal opinion.  And even that would probably get annoying fairly quickly.

MyNameIsNot

We considered spin the bottle, but that would have gotten a little strange considering how much of the guest list was family.

I vote for 7 minutes in heaven.

Wiscisbliss

We kissed when people clinked their glasses (the first time or two).  Then we stopped. 

I have seen the copycat and the singing done, and been to weddings where nothing happened.  Anything or nothing is fine.  Just do what you want. 

ootmother2

I haven't seen a kissing game since I was 12 and I failed to pass the grapefruit to Richie Stevens and had to kiss him

ugh