Funny Questions to Ask Your Future Son in Law

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How it works

These 90 funny questions to ask your future son-in-law are for the dinner where the family meets him: light, clean and with no wrong answers. None asks about money, faith, politics or the couple's private life.

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The first dinner

Before the first card, press Topic and pick Funny openers: on a scale of one to ten, how scary was our front door the first time? Easy keeps to cards for a first meeting. Would you rather, new in-law edition gives the whole table something to argue about: three hours of our home videos or our vacation slides?

Once he has been to a few dinners

Medium cards assume he knows you a little: which of our in-jokes do you still not understand? The family traditions he is joining compares your holidays with his. Toast material asks questions whose answers a parent can borrow for a rehearsal dinner speech.

Tips

When a round of 12 ends, Copy the list copies the topic you picked, handy for notes toward a toast.

Questions and answers

What are funny questions to ask a future son-in-law?

Ones that tease the family as much as him: What did you rehearse saying before you met us? Which of us did you expect to be the tough one? What nickname are you hoping we never give you?

Are there serious questions about money, faith or plans?

No. This deck is the light reading of the search: nothing about money, faith, politics, past relationships, children or the couple's private life, and nothing meant to test him. Every card can be read aloud with the whole family listening.

What can I ask to get material for a rehearsal dinner toast?

Toast material holds questions such as: What had you braced yourself for before your first visit here? At what moment did we stop feeling like strangers to you? Show follow-up asks for the detail a speech needs.

All 90 questions

Funny openers 30

How do you rate our cooking, and remember who is listening? Follow-up: Which dish earned the top mark?
How do you take your coffee or tea, so we can stop guessing? Follow-up: What happens if we get it wrong?
How early is too early for a family breakfast? Follow-up: What does it take to get you to one?
How good are you at assembling furniture, honestly? Follow-up: What is left over when you finish?
How many of our names did you have to memorize before today? Follow-up: Which name still trips you up?
On a scale of one to ten, how scary was our front door the first time? Follow-up: What number is the door today?
What advice did your relatives give you before this dinner? Follow-up: What did they tell you not to say?
What chore are you volunteering for at family gatherings? Follow-up: What chore are you hoping nobody mentions?
What did you learn about us from one look at our fridge? Follow-up: What would we learn from your fridge?
What did you rehearse saying before you met us? Follow-up: How much of it did you actually say?
What have you already been warned about us? Follow-up: Which warning turned out to be true?
What is the strangest tradition of ours you have had to nod along to? Follow-up: How convincing was the nod?
What is your best dad joke, ready or not? Follow-up: Who taught you that dad joke?
What is your plan when the family group chat goes off at midnight? Follow-up: Which of us sends the most messages?
What is your strategy when two of us disagree at dinner? Follow-up: Whose side is the safe side?
What job would you take at a family reunion: grill, games or peacekeeping? Follow-up: What makes you right for that job?
What nickname are you hoping we never give you? Follow-up: What nickname would you accept?
What should we cook when you visit, and what should we never cook? Follow-up: Who told you to say that?
What skill of yours will this family put to work right away? Follow-up: What skill will you pretend not to have?
What will you cook the first time we visit you, and should we eat beforehand? Follow-up: What do you make when that one fails?
What would your friends say we should know about you? Follow-up: Which friend would say it loudest?
Which family board game are you prepared to lose gracefully? Follow-up: Which one will you refuse to lose?
Which family story of ours have you already heard three times? Follow-up: Whose telling of it was the funniest?
Which holiday do you plan to win us over at? Follow-up: What is your secret plan for that holiday?
Which of our family photos made you laugh first? Follow-up: What did you say out loud about that photo?
Which of our in-jokes do you still not understand? Follow-up: Who is going to explain it to you?
Which of us did you expect to be the tough one? Follow-up: Who turned out to be the tough one?
Which seat at this table are you hoping becomes yours? Follow-up: Who would you have to move out of it?
Which side dish at our table are you only pretending to like? Follow-up: Which dish would you take seconds of in secret?
Which tune would you whistle to break an awkward silence at this table? Follow-up: Who would join in the whistling?

Getting to know him 15

What did you want to be at ten, and how close did you land? Follow-up: What would that kid say about your job now?
What did your family do on a typical Saturday when you were a kid? Follow-up: Which part of those Saturdays have you kept?
What did your grandparents or parents teach you that you still do? Follow-up: Who do you do it for now?
What do you do for work, explained for the least technical person here? Follow-up: Which part of the job would we enjoy watching?
What do you know far too much about for no good reason? Follow-up: When does it come in handy?
What does your ideal lazy Saturday involve? Follow-up: Who is allowed to interrupt it?
What hobby takes up more of your garage, shelf or weekend than it should? Follow-up: How did that hobby get so big?
What story do your school friends tell about you at every reunion? Follow-up: Which of them should we invite to tell it?
What was your first car, bike or bus route? Follow-up: Where did it take you on a good day?
What would we find you doing at ten on a weeknight? Follow-up: What would it take to get you out of the house then?
Where did you grow up, and what was the best thing about it? Follow-up: What would we have to see if we visited?
Which dish from your own kitchen should we learn to make for you? Follow-up: Who makes it the way home does?
Which relative of yours will we recognize in you the moment we meet them? Follow-up: What would they say about the comparison?
Which team, band or show are you loyal to no matter what? Follow-up: How far have you gone to follow them?
Which vacation of yours went wrong in the funniest way? Follow-up: Who refuses to let you forget it?

The family traditions he is joining 15

How does your family do birthdays, and what should we steal? Follow-up: What should we leave alone?
Our family has a loud side and a quiet side. Which do you belong on? Follow-up: Who put you on that side?
We have a birthday tradition. What do you think it is? Follow-up: How wrong are you willing to be?
What does a holiday morning look like where you come from? Follow-up: What time does that morning start?
What does your family put on the table that ours has never heard of? Follow-up: Who here would be brave enough to try it first?
What is the one family photo pose you refuse to do? Follow-up: What pose will you agree to?
What new tradition should start the year you join the family? Follow-up: Who would be in charge of it?
What role do you want at the next big family meal: carver, baker or dishwasher? Follow-up: What makes you the right pick?
What traditions is your family bringing to the table? Follow-up: Which one should we try first?
Which custom from your side should we adopt without argument? Follow-up: What do we need to buy or learn for it?
Which dish do you think is sacred at our holiday table? Follow-up: What would happen if someone changed the recipe?
Which family recipe are you hoping someone hands down to you? Follow-up: What would you add to it, if you dared?
Which of our annual outings are you secretly dreading? Follow-up: What would make you look forward to it?
Which of our holidays are you most curious about? Follow-up: What have you heard about that holiday?
Which of our traditions would you like explained from the beginning? Follow-up: Which of us should do the explaining?

Would you rather, new in-law edition 15

Would you rather be given a new nickname or be called the wrong name for a year? Follow-up: Which nickname could you live with?
Would you rather be seated beside the family storyteller or the family trivia champion? Follow-up: Which of us do you think that is?
Would you rather be the in-law who fixes things or the in-law who brings dessert? Follow-up: What would you fix or bring first?
Would you rather build furniture from a kit with a father-in-law or completely alone? Follow-up: Who reads the instructions?
Would you rather carve the turkey with everyone watching or give the toast? Follow-up: What could go wrong with your choice?
Would you rather do the dishes for twenty or entertain the small cousins for an hour? Follow-up: What game would you start the cousins on?
Would you rather hear our embarrassing family stories or tell us one of yours? Follow-up: Which of yours is safe to tell?
Would you rather join the family fun run or the family talent show? Follow-up: What is your act, or your pace?
Would you rather learn our secret recipe or our secret handshake? Follow-up: What would you trade for the secret?
Would you rather lose to Grandma at cards or beat her and face the consequences? Follow-up: What do you think the consequences are?
Would you rather plan the next reunion or give the speech at it? Follow-up: How does your first sentence go?
Would you rather settle a family argument or hide under the table until it ends? Follow-up: What would you say to settle it?
Would you rather sit through three hours of our home videos or our vacation slides? Follow-up: Which of us would narrate?
Would you rather take a road trip with all of us or a camping weekend with all of us? Follow-up: Who gets the front seat or the good tent?
Would you rather wear a paper crown through dinner or pose for the matching-sweater photo? Follow-up: What is on the sweater?

Toast material 15

At what moment did we stop feeling like strangers to you? Follow-up: What were we all doing at the time?
What do you hope we say about you in a toast? Follow-up: What are you afraid we will say?
What do you want the next family gathering to be remembered for? Follow-up: What will your part in it be?
What had you braced yourself for before your first visit here? Follow-up: What turned up in its place?
What have you learned from watching how this family does things? Follow-up: What have we learned from you, do you think?
What is one thing each of us did that made you feel welcome? Follow-up: Which one surprised you?
What is the first meal you ate at our table? Follow-up: What do you remember about that evening?
What mishap at one of our gatherings do you still grin about? Follow-up: Which of us was standing closest?
What moment so far would you put in the family album? Follow-up: Who took the picture?
What part of belonging to this clan are you keenest on? Follow-up: What part might take some getting used to?
What promise would you like to make to this family, in one sentence? Follow-up: How should we hold you to it?
What should we know about you that would take years to find out? Follow-up: What made you choose that one?
What would your oldest friend warn us about before a long car ride with you? Follow-up: How fair is that warning?
What would your parents want us to know about how you were raised? Follow-up: Which story would they tell us?
Which of us said something on your first visit that you still quote? Follow-up: How did you answer them?

How this list was compiled

Written for this page by the Game Night Generator editors in October 2026; no question or follow-up is copied from another list. Every card is a light question for a family to ask the person who is about to join it, and each has its own follow-up. Nothing asks about money, faith, politics, past relationships, children or the couple's private life, and no card is meant to test him: the jokes are on the family as often as on the guest. Every line was also screened against the site blocklist: nothing sexual or romantic, no alcohol or drugs, nothing about anyone's body, no real people and no brand names. Levels are an editor's judgment, not a measurement: easy suits a first meeting, medium suits someone who has been to a few family dinners. On 2026-10-02 a script compared every question and follow-up with every other list on this site, and lines that repeated one elsewhere were rewritten. Licence: own work