Lawn Games and Cocktail Hour

A cocktail-hour game that doubles as the guest book: guests sign a block with a marker and the couple plays it for years. Put a 'sign a block' sign beside it; two sets for 150 guests or more if it is the only guest book.

~$50 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The default cocktail-hour game: no rules to learn, all ages, and the boards go home to the backyard afterward. Choose the 3 by 2 foot size, which fits in a car, and plan one set per 50 guests.

~$100 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The second most played lawn game, and the one guests who will not throw anything still play; it works on a patio as well as grass. Plastic is the right call here, the wooden versions are heavy to move, and the case makes the trip to the venue simple.

~$150 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The dinner-hour problem is strangers at a table; a fill-in-the-blank card gives everyone a script, and the best ones get read aloud at the after-party. Put one card per guest or a small stack per table, with a box at the bar to collect them.

~$15 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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A card at each seat lists shots to capture, which turns guest photography from random into a game and pairs with the table cameras. Packed by 30, so buy for the guest count; a kids' version with one camera per child is a two-hour babysitter.

~$10 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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A plug-in machine on the DJ side runs itself for an outdoor first dance or the exit and gives you the dancing-in-bubbles photo. Buy a gallon of solution with it, and keep it outdoors or at the exit: soap on a dance floor is a slip hazard.

~$50 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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A bubble machine empties its tank in about an hour. One bottle of concentrate makes about two and a half gallons, enough for a send-off and the dance floor.

You'll also need bubble solution.

~$15 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Packs small, sets up in a minute, and guests play it with a drink in hand without committing to a match. Two or three games in total keeps a 100 guest cocktail hour busy alongside cornhole.

~$35 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Whatever your outside actually is.

~$55 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The bach-weekend game everyone ends up playing, on a lawn or a beach. Seventeen thousand ratings, and it packs into a bag.

~$75 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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