Chinese wedding door games
Posted on June 20, 2007 in the Chinese Wedding Traditions category
When I was Maid of Honor for my cousins wedding in 2006, I was in charge of coming up with ideas for the chinese wedding door games for when the groom comes to pick up the bride. I decided to base the games on a quiz about how well the groom knows his wife to be. So me and the bride thought up some questions about her and their relationship i.e where did they first meet? what was she wearing? how many wedding dresses did she try on before she found her perfect wedding dress? etc….there were some hard questions thats he would definitely not know the answer to and some questions about her that he most definitely should know the answer to already.
So on their wedding day, I gathered all the gee mui’s (group of girls that are close to the bride) at the front door and when the groom and his hing dai’s (group of guys that are close to the groom) arrived we started the games. First we had to ask for £9999.99 as the number 9 represents everlasting in chinese so its tradition to ask for as many nines as possible, some people ask for the number 8 which represents prosperity. The guys said no way to our request for that amount of money so we said “OK let the games begin then”.
I explained to them how the games would work, first I ask the questions and if they get it wrong they would have to pay the consequences. I only take the first answer and there can be no passing on questions. I don’t remember the first question I asked but the groom didn’t get it right. So me and the gee mui’s made the groom and 3 of his hing dai’s wear women’s panties (knickers and thongs).
Another wedding door game was the rolling of an egg up another guy’s trouser leg which was funny. I boiled about 6 eggs the night before and put them all back in the carton. I asked the groom to pick an egg, he was really scared as he thought they were all raw and didn’t want to get his suit dirty if one of them cracked. I told him either himself or a nominated hing dai would have to roll the egg up the inside of another man’s leg and down the other side without dropping the egg. This was hilarious as they were all very reluctant to go anyway near another man’s crotch.
A good idea for Wedding door games is to ask the bride what kind of food her husband-to-be doesn’t like, in this case the groom doesn’t like celery so I made a nice dish of raw celery with lots of wasabi spread on it for them all to eat. I also supplied water because I couldn’t be that mean hehehe.
There was also another game where I made some chilli jelly and told them they must finish the whole bowl in 30seconds. I think some of them cheated and threw most of it on the floor. I must admit, that was a very nasty bowl of jelly.
Another game was the eating of a candy thong. The groom was already wearing panties so I made him wear a candy thong on top and the task for the all the hing dai’s was to eat all the candy within 30 seconds. They were all at his crotch eating the candy which made very funny pictures.
One of the last games was making them all sing a love song to the brides window. I had other games lined up but by then we ran out of time because the guys were all time wasting by deciding who should do what. So my advice to fellow gee mui’s is to make sure the guys don’t time waste by setting a time limit for them to do the task.
After the time was up, one of the hing dai’s handed the girls the red envelope which contained money so that they could come into the house. I didn’t realise that we were meant to count the money before letting them enter so I just took the cash and let them in. Apparently the task of the gee mui’s is to get the most money availiable off the hing dai’s which I failed to do as they had another 2 envelopes with cash in it. Luckily I got the other 2 envelopes later on that evening by doing some games at the restaurant.
I have my sister’s Wedding door games to plan for her wedding in October so there will be even more evil games to play to her fiancee.
More to come about Wedding Door games 2007
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