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Reception Advice

We’ve got tons of obscenely fun wedding reception ideas, which might mean stuff like wedding reception games, wedding reception songs, fun other things to do when there’s no dancing at your wedding, wedding toasts, and so much more…

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Ask your guests to get artsy on loose scrapbook pages for your guest book

Thanks to Offbeat Bride reader Lindsay for uploading this interactive guest book idea to our Flickr pool

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Combine cultures with tea cup cake toppers

Many weddings nowadays try to effortlessly blend two totally different cultures; this, obviously, can be hard. However, I recently had a great idea on how to blend two seemingly different cultures through an easy subject: tea cups!

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Have your DJ or MC remind people to sign the guestbook

Offbeat Bride Tribe member aquaring recently chewed over a few of her wedding day regrets, and shared this impeccable tip: Have your DJ announce / remind people to sign the guest book at some point during the night.

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Use vintage postcards as a guestbook

We’ve always had a particular fondness for vintage postcards, so we decided to use vintage Oregon postcards instead of a traditional guestbook. We invited our guests to fill them out and put them in the mailbox on the table or they could save them to surprise us in the mail later.