Scavenger Hunts for Weddings
The stretch between the ceremony and the first dance is the longest part of any wedding day. While you are off having photos taken, a hunt gives every guest something to do, gets both sides of the family talking, and collects the whole day's photos in one feed instead of a hundred camera rolls.
Why couples put a hunt on the table cards
Every wedding has the same three gaps: cocktail hour, the tables who know nobody, and the six-week wait for the photographer's gallery.
Cocktail hour runs itself
The hour you spend on photos is the hour your guests spend standing around with a drink. Missions turn it into the part of the day people talk about on the drive home.
Both sides of the family, finally mixed
Write one mission that needs a photo with someone from the other side and the two halves of the room introduce themselves without a seating plan doing the work.
Every guest photo in one feed
Guest photos usually scatter across a hundred phones and never reach you. Here they land in one place the same afternoon, months before the professional gallery arrives.
Wedding mission ideas you can copy
Swap in your own names and venue. The missions that land hardest are always the ones only your guests would understand.
The reception hunt
For cocktail hour and the courses in between. Nothing here needs anyone to leave their seat for long.
- photo Get a photo with someone from the other side of the family you had never met before today.
- video Fifteen seconds of marriage advice, delivered straight to camera like a nature documentary.
- trivia Where did the couple go on their first date? No asking the couple.
- photo Photograph the best dancer at this reception mid-move. One shot, no staging.
- photo Find the guest who travelled furthest to be here and get a photo together.
The welcome party and rehearsal dinner
The night before, when half the room has never met the other half and everyone is slightly nervous.
- gps Check in at the welcome drinks. That is the easy point — take it before someone hands you a speech.
- photo A team photo with one person from each side of the wedding party in it.
- trivia How did the couple actually meet? The version they tell at parties will do.
- video Ten seconds from whoever has known one of them longest, on what they made of the match at the time.
- photo Destination wedding: find the tackiest souvenir in town and photograph it beside the price tag.
Bachelorette and bachelor weekends
The classic list, minus the printed sheet that is soaked through by two in the afternoon.
- photo Get a photo with a stranger wearing the same colour as the bride.
- video Convince a bartender to give their best marriage advice on camera. Fifteen seconds.
- gps Check in at the first bar on the list. Yes, everyone. Yes, now.
- trivia What was the proposal actually like? First team with the real story takes the point.
- photo Recreate a photo from the couple's first holiday together. Same pose, wrong people.
For the kids' table and the quieter guests
Missions that work from a chair, so nobody is left out of the game by nine in the evening.
- photo Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Four photos, one point each.
- photo Photograph your table number with everyone sitting at it in the shot.
- trivia How many tiers does the cake have, and what flavour is the bottom one?
- video Ten seconds of the flower girl or ring bearer explaining the job to camera.
- photo Find the couple's childhood photos by the door and work out which one is which.
Where a hunt fits into the wedding day
One hunt, opened when the ceremony ends and closed before the speeches. Guests dip in between courses.
The link goes out with everything else
Put it on the wedding website, in the group chat, and on a card at each place setting. Guests who join early arrive already knowing there is a game on.
Phones away
Nothing is live yet. The hunt opens the moment the aisle clears, which is also the moment you disappear for photos.
The photo missions do the introductions
This is the hour the hunt earns its place. Guests who know nobody are suddenly obliged to go and meet three people.
Table missions between courses
Trivia about the couple and photos from a seat keep the room busy in the gaps without anyone getting up mid-service.
Leaderboard, then the first dance
Close the hunt, put the feed on a screen and hand out something small to the winning table. Then the floor opens and the phones go away for good.
The photos are already yours
Hundreds of guest photos and videos, in one feed, on the day after the wedding rather than six weeks later.
Setting one up before the day
An evening is plenty. It is the one wedding job that gets easier the closer you are to the couple.
Write missions about the two of you
Fifteen to twenty missions across photo, video, GPS and trivia is right for a reception. The trivia about how you met will be the most argued-over part of the night.
Put the link where guests already look
Wedding website, table cards, the welcome sign. One QR code on the place setting is usually all it takes.
Hand it to someone else on the day
A bridesmaid, the best man or the MC announces it once and reads the leaderboard before the speeches. You should not be running anything at your own wedding.
Questions couples ask
Guests tap the invite link — on the table card, the wedding website or in the group chat — and play in the free Scavvy app on iOS or Android. Playing never costs a guest anything.
Put a table on a team and share one phone between them. Grandparents rarely join on their own, but they will happily be in the photo a grandchild is racing to take.
Start the hunt when the ceremony ends. Most couples run it through cocktail hour and dinner, then close it before the speeches so the leaderboard becomes the lead-in to the first dance.
Nobody, really. You build the missions weeks in advance and someone — the MC, a bridesmaid, the best man — announces the link once. Submissions land in the feed on their own after that.
Pricing is one-time and by player count: $34.99 covers up to 60 players and $89.99 covers up to 100. Only the person building the hunt pays — see pricing.
Give your guests something to do
Build the hunt in an evening, share one link on the day, and wake up to every photo your guests took. Free to try, and always free for guests to play.