When are there too many activities?

I'm getting married in a pretty conservative church with a much older crowd, I honestly don't expect my guests to want to boogie on down too much, so I'm going to have games and mad libs, cads about matrimony and other alternatives to dancing.

That sounds likes a lot going on. The venue we are getting married at has a big tent with a patio on each end. The tour guide was saying the the front end is where the older crowd usually hangs out, there are fire pits and comfy patio chairs. The back patio is the younger crowd. They provide giant jenga and cornhole. We aren't having a super formal wedding, so I figure those two are ok. We are doing a photo booth as well, but that is all.

All I care about is dancing.. no on the games

We are going to have outdoor Yahtzee and cornhole but only during our outdoor cocktail hour. If it rains cocktail hour will move inside and we will skip them.

I've never heard of that many activities.

I could see having a lot of games if you were having a backyard barbecue wedding and not planning on dancing so you needed something to keep people hanging out, but all that at a wedding would make me lose focus on why I was really there.

To me there is never too many, but none of us are big dancers.

I think at an evening wedding especially, games are not appropriate. Drinks, dancing, and conversation, maybe a photo booth is plenty.

When I'm at a wedding I want to dance. Our wedding had bar, dance, photo booth. You can have one thing beyond dancing or drinking. Nothing else. The dance floor needs to be packed.

No need for any "activities" beyond dancing and a photobooth, IMO. What a waste of money for a "casino night" (wtf is that doing at a wedding?! It sounds like a program run by a student activities club at a college). As long as you have drinks and an experienced DJ, it will definitely be a good time.

Games are for family picnics, not weddings. I'd be pissed if I spent big money on a dj for nobody to dance to.

I personally like games at weddings, I only really care to dance when I'm drinking with friends at a club or something

I didn't like dancing so at our wedding, we just ended earlier. That worked better for me. It was a nice classy dinner party rather than a high school graduation night....

Hmmm. We are going to have games but that's only for the kids table. Otherwise the adults better get their booty on the dance floor and get their drink, eat, and mingle on. You feel me? Yes. Ok, good.

Maybe if anything games at the cocktail hour but I wouldn't have any

I love activities at weddings because I go to a ton of weddings and just dancing at every one gets very boring. Plus, you'll have those guests that just don't like to dance so they dip out right after dinner. If you're a couple who doesn't care about how many people are dancing at your wedding, then I think having a bunch of activities is fine. With that being said, a lot of people go to weddings and are looking forward to the dancing, so I don't think it would be a good idea to have anything that will overshadow the dance floor. If it's all in the same room or maybe if the casino and more distracting activities were only during cocktail hour then it might be less of an issue.

We decided against several beautiful venues because, like your friend's setup, it would have drawn people into separate rooms away from the celebration, and would have made it very difficult to visit with our guests.