Wedding Forum - Comedian at evening reception????!!!!...

Hello,
so need some help from all of you lovely brides. My H2B has had an idea of asking for a local comedian to do a bit of stand up at the wedding. The guy is very funny but I don't know if it is suitable for a wedding, we want everyone to have fun but don't know whether a comedian will be good or not, what do you think? Thank you for your help:)

for evening guests .. i think after more drink they dance and party! I just don't know.

It could work as a warm up before the dancing begins
I will be leading the dancing at my wedding ha ha

It could be great...and a real ice breaker if a lot of your guests don't know each other.

However, there are a few things to think about:

1. Will your guests feel comfortable getting up and getting a drink/ going to the loo etc whilst he is performing? They'll have already sat through ceremony and speeches and the general waiting around that is involved in a lot of weddings.

2. Is it going to cut into 'mingling' time? A lot of people treat weddings almost like reunions and a chance to catch up with people they haven't seen for years. I'm thinking more of older guests who might not be staying til the end anyway.

3. Timings - in my experience, not all guests will arrive at the time stated on the invite - our evening do started at 7.30 and we had guests arriving up until 9pm. Having said that, our venue was very close to where a lot of our guests live, so much easier to 'pop in when ready'....I think if it was further away and they'd had to arrange transport, more would have arrived between 7.30 and 8. A guest might feel quite awkward arriving halfway through a comedy set.

4. Is he going to be suitable for everyone? Presumably, he isn't a Roy chubby brown-esque type chap who will cause your great auntie Edith to have heart palpitations or your three year old cousins nephews best friend to spend the rest of the evening asking everybody what a MILF is. If there are going to be young children there, will they understand/be able to sit through or is there someplace else they can go or do.

You know your own guests best though, and these things might not be such an issue, in that case, it's a fantastic idea, and I'd love to go to a wedding with a comedian!

My main worry is that other than a DJ we don't have any other form of etertainment... does this matter? I just don't want people to be bored. x

All we had were cd's playing in the background until the DJ in the evening and none of our guests were bored, in fact some guests said afterwards it was one of the best weddings they'd been to. It is the people, your guests and everyone being on a high that makes the wedding day fun and amazing xxx