Sheva Brachos should have ONE speech limited to four minutes. After that any form of asking to hold the crowd’s attention should involve a drinking game.
At one of our sheva brachos, we had digital pictures from the wedding playing on a continuous loop on a screen, and one of our wedding centerpieces on the buffet table. We also used our wedding bentchers for the sheva brachos. Even a few non-Jewish friends (my husband met them in college) came and had a great time.
Thanks for all your great ideas! We decided to put on 2-liner skits on “communication”. Can you think of the funniest “mis-communication” scenarios? (the funniest ones are probably done by grandma and grandpa)
At my sister’s sheva brachos they played ‘Mr and Mrs’ where she and my brother in law stood back-to-back with a pink taffy for ‘wife’ and a blue taffy for ‘husband’. Then they were asked various questions about ‘who is more likely to…’ and had to answer using the taffies. They couldn’t see what the other was answering. It was really funny.