Weddings Glass Clanking question

Sometimes, reverse psychology prevails.

The bride and groom are brought totally on-board and are in cahoots with you with this strategy after being advised that this is among the best ways to handle their wishes.

Immediately after the opening formalities have been completed and it is time to eat, get out in front, take command of the room and ask" Would everyone please take a knife, a fork, or a spoon in hand. Somewhere in your reach is a cup or glass. You know what to do. Everyone altogether, (exuberant) let's do the tinky-thing." (I love calling the glass clinking the "tinky thing". By calling it a childish though fun name, it puts it in proper perspective.)

Everyone dutifully follows your orders and bangs their glassware. The bride and groom dutifully kiss. If too quick or to short, insist they kiss again and "get the kissometer up to at least a 9". They will, and everyone will cheer. They just do.

Once it's settled, tell everyone pointedly and with some glib authority. "Great. Now that you all have that totally, completely, and thoroughly out of your systems, if Jack and Jill should clink their glasses, you will have to kiss someone." Instruct the bride and groom that once you say this, to stand and clink heir glasses. Now command everyone, "Jack & Jill are clinking their glasses. You know what it means. Everybody at every table, kissy kissy." "Excuse me, the gentleman at table 6, just one woman sir, just one." Laughter. The sounds of fun but then the focus becomes clearly on din-din.

Lastly, tell the bride and groom to clink every time they clink. All will grow tired of it...or...all will have a blast, but at least it won't be mundane.

I've done several where they would only kiss if a person or persons stood up and sang part of a song with the word love in it. With the right crowd it's very fun

Cap's suggestion might work, but it also has a chance of making you look like a jerk (if it's not presented exactly right). My first inclination is that the groom is being a douche. Were I in your shoes, I'd put on my best fake smile and tell them, "I'll do my best." I'd then let it go and stay out of the tinky thing. If/when the guests do it and IF the groom says something to you afterwards, I'd tell him, "Yea, I don't know why they just insisted on it." Keep one other thing in mind. Assuming that the Bride's family is paying for this wedding, they might actually have an affinity towards it. In that case, you'd be going against the paying clients' wishes.

I just don't see much possibility of you coming out of this, smelling like a rose.

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Rick said is correctly. Any ideas shared here will fall far short of hoped for goals if your personality, presentation, command presence, and acting skills are lackluster.

In retrospect, I should've added to the end of my sharing a caveat.

"Do not attempt this unless you are qualified and capable".

As that particular solution/suggestion has a 20 year track record of unfailing results for me, I must be doing something right.

I like Cap's "table-turning" idea. What I have done (that I picked-up from someone along the way; I don't remember who or where), is to tell the tables ahead of time that the glass clinking thing is "out," but if they want the bride and groom to kiss, their entire table has to stand-up and sing a song. I will give them a topic/category, like "70's TV theme songs." This tends to cut down on the constant, disruptive, "kissing demands," but if the tables are organized and determined, they can still get their way. But they, also, will have a little embarrassment dues to pay before they do...

GJ

I've liked and used the Sing A Love Song Game often, but as an alternative to glass clinking, not as a response to a specific, "We don't wanna."

An alternative ending to the suggestion I made prior is to say, Great. Now that you all have that totally, completely, and thoroughly out of your systems, should you do the tinky-thing again, Jack and Jill will totally, completely, and thoroughly ignore you. Bon Appetite."

Do not attempt this unless you are qualified and capable.

>>>>Do not attempt this unless you are qualified and capable.<<<<

Do you have on OSHA-regulated on-line certification program, Cap?

GJ

Cap Capello said:

Rick said is correctly. Any ideas shared here will fall far short of hoped for goals if your personality, presentation, command presence, and acting skills are lackluster.

In retrospect, I should've added to the end of my sharing a caveat.

"Do not attempt this unless you are qualified and capable".

As that particular solution/suggestion has a 20 year track record of unfailing results for me, I must be doing something right.

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Let's just face it Cap, you're a stud.

Do you have on OSHA-regulated on-line certification program, Cap?

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I do, GJ, but it's secret and costs $1,200.00 (or more) to become a member. So far, I'm the only qualified and capable member.

It gets lonely, ya know?

This should NOT be an issue that is passed along to the DJ.
Suggest table cards with alternate instructions or a polite request to refrain from the practice. Lots of couples do it.

You know what's funny? Of all the weddings I've been part of in the past year, I don't remember a single instance of glass clinking. Either it didn't happen at all (not entirely likely, but possible), or it's just so irrelevant that if it did happen, it really didn't matter.

I haven't even had couples suggest alternatives lately. Maybe it really is becoming a forgotten tradition.

The "song thing" is what I do to curb the tinking... on the other hand, if I am at a wedding that seems low energy and needs a kick, I have a sound bite of tinking glasses that I will drop over a song, not to loud, but just enough to get it started.

I also like Caps point about "Do not attempt this unless you are qualified and capable.", this is something that cannot be stressed enough. I know a number of great DJs who can mix their heart out and can even make announcements, but when it comes to "showmanship" they are lacking. If you do not have this don't do it, you will just look like a jerk.