With the wedding game “12 Months 12 Tasks”, you hit two birds with one stone: it’s a great activity at the wedding celebration and at the same time a beautiful wedding gift that brings joy to the wedding couple throughout the whole year. Here you will find the best ideas for this popular wedding game.
Anyone who has been to a few weddings knows this wedding game: The wedding guests surprise the wedding couple every month during the first year of marriage with assistance or surprises. It has been a perennial favorite among wedding games for decades, and that’s absolutely brilliant because there are various ways to carry out the “12 Months 12 Tasks” wedding game, from which you can choose the one you like best.
The most important aspect of the “12 Months 12 Tasks” wedding game are, of course, creative, fun, and lovely monthly tasks that make the guests laugh, bring them joy, and delight the wedding couple every month during their first year of marriage. The classic version is a wedding game for voluntary wedding guests, but here you will also find three other game variations for the wedding couple and the entire wedding party.
I have gathered the most creative, beautiful, and best ideas for monthly tasks for the wedding game here. Simply choose the 12 that you like best or print a list for the wedding guests if they are to be creative themselves and write the tasks on blank cards!
How Does the Wedding Game “12 Months 12 Tasks” Work?

Before the wedding, the best man, maid of honor, or a wedding guest prepares vouchers with monthly tasks for the first year of marriage. At the wedding celebration, a wedding game takes place in which the monthly tasks are distributed among the wedding guests or the wedding couple playfully obtains 12 tasks. So here you will find wedding game variations for the wedding guests as well as the wedding couple!
The absolute classic among wedding games is the well-known “Musical Chairs” game with 13 participants. But there are many other variations, including ones for weddings where the wedding couple doesn’t want wedding games – you will find them described below! In the 12 months after the wedding, the wedding couple will be delighted every month with a surprise from the wedding guest assigned during the wedding game.
Variant 1: Musical Chairs for Wedding Guests
In the most well-known version of the wedding game, you play it similarly to “Musical Chairs” with 13 wedding guests and a game leader or moderator. Participants can volunteer or you can ask the bride and groom to alternately select the 13 participants.
Now, as in the normal version of “Musical Chairs,” 12 chairs are placed back to back on the dance floor. But unlike the classic game, no music is stopped here, and players must accomplish a task before they can sit on a chair. For example, players must retrieve items (examples can be found below). There is always one chair fewer than players. So, whoever takes the longest will not find a free chair and will be eliminated. After each round, one chair is removed until only one chair remains.
After each elimination, the player receives a lottery ticket / voucher with a task for a month of the first year of marriage, which they must redeem. The 13th player who wins is rewarded and receives, for example, a dinner invitation from the bridal couple.
Ideas for Items to Retrieve
In this variant of the wedding game “12 Months 12 Tasks,” you can have the players retrieve anything that is easily available. From my experience, I recommend an important rule: Decide that players cannot ask their partners for items, but all items must come from other players!
- a bow tie
- a sheet of toilet paper
- a BMW car key
- an ID
- a black shoe
- a 50 euro bill
- a hair clip
- a wedding ring
- something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
Variant 2: Wedding Game “12 Months 12 Tasks” as a Funny Surprise Game
For this game variant, you need 12 task vouchers and for the moderator, sheets with questions and corresponding answers for each task. You will find examples with 12 tasks, questions, and answers here after the game explanation.
The funny thing about this variant of the “12 Months 12 Tasks” wedding game: It’s not the guests who decide what they want to do for the wedding couple, but the majority!
The bride and groom are given a tray with the 12 folded questions and read the first one: “Who is the most modest person in the room?” The bride and groom make several suggestions (which can also come from the guests), and then a vote is taken by hand signals and the majority decides who it is. The moderator then reads out the funny task, which cannot be guessed: “Helga is the most modest because she doesn’t want any thanks when she removes the weeds in your / yard / garden!” Helga receives the slip with her task for the respective month, and the next question is read out. This continues until all 12 questions have been asked and tasks have been distributed.
Questions, Answers & Tasks for the Wedding Game “12 Months 12 Tasks”
- January: Who is the most mysterious here? – They surprise you with a movie, without telling you beforehand which one it is.
- February: Who is the most romantic here? – He / she creates a romantic date for you.
- March: Who is the biggest cleaning enthusiast here? – He / she cleans your car three times.
- April: Who has the biggest ears here? – The person hosts a great Easter brunch for you.
- May: Who is the greenest thumb here? – He / she plants your balcony / a bed for you.
- June: Who is the hottest person here? – She hosts a barbecue party for the wedding couple.
- July: Who is the coolest person here? – She hides a chilly surprise for you in the freezer this summer!
- August: Who here would have fallen into the magic potion cauldron like Obelix? – The person gets a crate of various beers for your next celebration.
- September: Who is the biggest adventurer here? – The person surprises you with an adventure that makes your hearts beat faster.
- October: Who here competes with top chef Jamie Oliver? – The person cooks dinner for you – or invites you to dinner at their favorite restaurant.
- November: Who is the most dexterous? – The person makes an Advent wreath for the bridal couple.
- December: Who would be the born Christmas elf here? – The person surprises you with a small gift on Christmas.
Variant 3: Can Toss with Monthly Tasks for the Wedding Couple
Before the game, you approach wedding guests at the wedding reception and ask them to think of a task and write it on prepared blank vouchers and give them to you. As soon as you have 12 together, you have the monthly tasks for the wedding game.
For this variant of the wedding game “12 Months 12 Tasks,” you need at least 12 empty tin cans with push-in lids and tennis balls for tossing. You can buy them, for example, here on Amazon*. You can decorate each tin can with a banderole designed to match the wedding or stick the numbers 1 to 12 on them.
On a table, stack the cans into a pyramid and give the bride and groom a tennis ball each for tossing. Every can that falls receives the couple, and the vouchers inside are read aloud and redeemed in the following year.
Variant 4: Wedding Dart for the Wedding Couple
For the variant of the wedding game “12 Months 12 Tasks” as wedding dart, you also need 12 vouchers with tasks from the guests. You can also print out a list of ideas for them to cut out and label with their own names.
The rolled-up vouchers are placed in balloons and pinned to a bulletin board with thumbtacks. Either you also pin empty balloons, or more than 12!
Now, the bride and groom take turns throwing darts and bursting 12 balloons. After each hit balloon, the voucher and who will fulfill it are read aloud.
Here you will find another lovely variant for wedding darts.
The Best 52 Ideas for the Wedding Game “12 Months 12 Tasks”

On this list, you will find tasks, small surprises, and everyday help for the wedding couple in the first year of marriage. It’s best to choose them to match the preferences, interests, and hobbies of the wedding couple. Here you will find only general ideas for the wedding game “12 Months 12 Tasks.”
If you prepare blank cards for the 12 months, it is often a great help for the wedding guests if there is a list of ideas for tasks for the wedding game “12 Months 12 Tasks” available.
- X surprises you with something that reminds you of your wedding on your first wedding anniversary.
- X arranges champagne for your first wedding anniversary.
- X surprises you with a special New Year’s walk.
- X disposes of your Christmas tree.
- X invites you to the cinema.
- X cleans your car.
- X and Y invite you for a picnic.
- X and Y invite you to the sauna.
- X vacuums your entire apartment.
- X prepares a dessert for you for Valentine’s Day.
- X and Y ensure an especially romantic Valentine’s Day for you.
- X and Y organize the most romantic dinner of all time for you.
- X bakes a cake for one of you for your birthday.
- X selects a movie for you and surprises you with a cinema visit.
- X helps you in the garden.
- X cleans your windows.
- X goes on a bike tour with you.
- X cleans your car once!
- X organizes cold drinks for an excursion to the lake/swimming pool.
- X paints Easter eggs for you.
- X mows your lawn.
- X helps with spring cleaning.
- X hides an Easter nest for you.
- X invites you to the ice cream parlor.
- X invites you to dinner.
- Family X organizes a barbecue party for you.
- X does your laundry after your vacation/honeymoon.
- X arranges for you 3 essential things for the honeymoon.
- X invites you for a game night.
- X hosts a cocktail evening for you.
- X takes care of your drinks bill at the pub.
- X knits socks for the bride.
- X surprises you with a weekend getaway.
- X takes you to a bonfire with bread on sticks and roasted marshmallows.
- X bakes a batch of cookies for you.
- X organizes a tandem ride for you.
- X takes care of your plants while you’re on vacation.
- X invites you for a wine tasting.
- X gives the bride a bouquet for her birthday.
- X gives you a basic kit for a candlelight dinner.
- X invites you for an extensive brunch.
- X invites you to the Christmas market for as much mulled wine as you want to drink.
- X delivers your Advent wreath this year!
- X plays Santa Claus and puts filled boots in front of your door.
- X bakes a batch of cookies for you.
- X and Y craft an advent calendar for you and fill it.
- X and Y get the Christmas tree for you and set it up!
- X buys roasted almonds for you at the Christmas market.
- X has a Christmas surprise for you.
- X shovels snow for you.
- X and Y invite you for a raclette.
- X and Y invite you for a fondue.
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