Setting up the hunt in five steps
Start with the theme. Fairy tale and time travel read well at a wedding, while a detective case or a treasure hunt suits a livelier reception; the custom option lets you describe the couple’s own running joke instead. Then choose whether guests stay indoors or wander the garden and terrace.
The audience step matters more here than anywhere else, because a wedding crowd is genuinely mixed. Selecting family or party keeps the tasks solvable for a seven-year-old cousin and still interesting for the bride’s colleagues. Add inspirations — how the couple met, the city they live in, the film they quote constantly.
- Theme: fairy tale, time travel or a custom scenario written around the couple
- Location: the indoor setting for a reception room, the yard, or a loop between the two
- Audience: family or party, so cousins, colleagues and grandparents can all play
- Difficulty: keep it easy — guests are holding drinks and wearing good shoes
- Task types: a trivia quiz about the couple, observation and light creative tasks
Clue ideas built around the couple
The best wedding tasks are about the two people at the centre of the day. Ask a table to guess which of three first-date stories is true, or to find the guest wearing the same colour as the bridesmaids and learn how they know the groom.
Keep the trail short and social rather than competitive. Six to eight tasks spread across the drinks hour is enough, and the answers in the host notes let a groomsman or the compère run it without rehearsal while the couple are away having photographs taken.
- A riddle whose answer is the year the couple met, matching a numbered table
- Find the guest who has known the bride longest and get their oldest story
- Decode a cipher that spells the honeymoon destination, kept secret until the toast
- Photograph a detail from the venue described only in a riddle, such as a stained glass window
- Collect one sentence of advice per table and hand the set to the couple at the end
- A trivia card of three questions about the groom, answered by his oldest friends
Running it without disrupting the schedule
A wedding runs on a timetable, so the hunt should slot into a gap instead of competing with the speeches. The drinks reception is the obvious window, and a hunt that fits the cocktail hour also keeps children busy while adults queue for photographs and the room is turned around.
Print one set of task cards per table and put the scenario poster near the seating plan so nobody has to ask what is going on. Assign the hunt to a member of the wedding party rather than the couple, and give them the host notes on paper so the answers survive a lost phone.
How it works
- Choose a theme, then indoor or outdoor location.
- Set the audience, difficulty and how many tasks you want.
- Generate the scenario, tasks and host answers, and read the free preview.
- Pay once, then print the tasks or read the clues aloud.
