It's your wedding reception. Your guests are all seated with their drinks and nibbles, but some of them are still shy about mingling. After all, not everyone is an extrovert. What do you do to break the ice?
Ask them some silly questions to get them involved in the party, and see who knows the bride and groom best. It's a good old-fashioned wedding quiz, but with a modern setup. Research on icebreaker activities has found that getting people who don't know each other to do a quick warm-up together measurably improves how smoothly they then interact, which is exactly the problem a reception full of unfamiliar guests has to solve [1]. Here's how it works.
The setup
You could get special paper printed, hand out matching pens at every table, and have 100+ guests pass sheets around to mark each other's answers at the end of every round. That's one way to turn your special day into a total circus.
A simpler option is to run your wedding quiz on a live quizzing platform instead. Create your wedding quiz questions on AhaSlides, share your unique room code with guests, and let everyone answer multimedia questions right from their phones.
Each question format solves a different problem for a reception crowd:
• Multiple choice (with image): Guests who don't know the couple well can still take a good guess when they can see a photo, not just read text options.
• True of False: a simple quiz format where participants have binary options to choose from.
• Match Pairs: Pairing names, dates, or memories to the right answer works well for a "who said it" round without needing a host to read out long questions.
• Type answer: A free-text answer with close variations accepted means guests aren't penalized for a typo or a slightly different wording of the right answer.
• The leaderboard: Showing rankings at the end of a round gives competitive guests a reason to stay engaged for the next one.
• Categorise: Sorting items into the right bucket suits quick "which side of the family" or "his or hers" style rounds.
• Correct order: Putting events in sequence is the natural format for "what happened first" timeline questions.
The wedding quiz questions
Need some quiz questions to get your guests howling with laughter? We've got you covered. Check out these 50 questions about the bride and groom.
Get-to-know wedding quiz questions
Warm-up questions about favorites, habits, and hobbies. These work well as the opening round since almost anyone can guess an answer.
1. How long have the couple been together?
2. Where did the couple first meet?
3. What is his/her favorite hobby?
4. What is his/her celebrity crush?
5. What is his/her perfect pizza topping?
6. What is his/her favorite sports team?
7. What is his/her worst habit?
8. What is the best present she/he has ever received?
9. What is his/her party trick?
10. What is his/her proudest moment?
11. What is his/her guilty pleasure?
Who-is wedding quiz questions
This round puts the two partners head to head. Guests vote on which one of them fits each description best.
12. Who gets the last word?
13. Who is the early riser?
14. Who is a night owl?
15. Who snores louder?
16. Who is the messiest one?
17. Who is the pickiest eater?
18. Who is the better driver?
19. Who has the worst handwriting?
20. Who is the better dancer?
21. Who is the better cook?
22. Who takes longer to get ready?
23. Who is most likely to deal with a spider?
24. Who has had the most exes?
Flirty wedding quiz questions
Cheeky, lighthearted couple trivia, playful without being explicit, for the round guests usually laugh hardest at.
25. What is his/her most ticklish spot?
26. What was the cheesiest pickup line one of them used on the other?
27. What is her most-used pet name for him, or his for her?
28. What is his/her go-to karaoke song for date night?
29. How many dates did the couple go on before their first kiss?
30. What is one flirty habit only their partner knows about?
31. Who made the first move?
First wedding quiz questions
Firsts from the relationship timeline, from the first date to the first fight, for guests who've followed the relationship from the start.
32. Who said "I love you" first?
33. Who had a crush on the other one first?
34. Where was the first kiss?
35. What was the first film the couple ever saw together?
36. What was his/her first job?
37. What's the first thing he/she does every morning?
38. Where did they go for their first date?
39. What was the first gift he/she gave the other?
40. Who started the first fight?
41. Who said "I'm sorry" first after that fight?
Basic wedding quiz questions
Everyday facts about each partner. A safe, easy round to close on if guests are running low on inside knowledge.
42. How many times did he/she take their driving test?
43. What perfume or cologne does he/she wear?
44. Who is his/her best friend?
45. What color eyes does he/she have?
46. What pet name does he/she use for the other?
47. How many children does he/she want?
48. What's his/her go-to alcoholic drink?
49. What shoe size does he/she have?
50. What is he/she most likely to argue about?
Want to skip writing the questions yourself? AhaSlides has ready-made wedding quiz templates you can copy into your own free account and edit with the couple's own answers.
Looking for more ways to keep the party going? See our fun quiz ideas for other events, or browse picture round quiz ideas if you want to add photos to your rounds.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions should a wedding quiz have?
There's no fixed rule, but splitting the 50 questions above into a few short rounds, rather than running them all at once, tends to keep the game moving without dragging on between courses or speeches.
When should you run the wedding quiz during the reception?
Many couples run it between the meal and the speeches, or right after the speeches while guests are still seated and the room's attention is already on the couple.
Can guests play a wedding quiz on their own phones?
Yes. Live quiz platforms like AhaSlides let guests join with a room code and answer from their own phones, so there's no need to print paper score sheets or pass around pens.
Sources
1. Fullwood, C. (2006). The effect of an icebreaker on collaborative performance across a video link: https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/11801/1/11801-Fullwood-(2006)-The-effect-of-an-icebreaker.pdf
2. AhaSlides live quiz question types (multiple choice, match pairs, type answer, categorise, correct order): https://ahaslides.com/features/
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