Wedding day timeline

I feel like 5-7 is a long time for dinner. But you could do the parent dances after dinner, then have the speech/toasts. Followed by the bouquet toss & dollar dance. Followed by cake cutting. There are many templated that are online, I would suggest even googling "wedding day timelines" and see if you can find one that you like

Ok, sounds good I will check some out thank you!

We did cake cutting, father/daughter dance, son/mother dance. That way guests can be served cake while watching dances. Typically the father/daughter dance is first immediately followed by the son/mother dance. Take a break of 30 minutes or so to grab a drink, mingle. Then I would do dollar dance at 8:45, followed by bouquet toss and with garder toss. If you have a DJ, they can help you with the exact time and make announcements accordingly. Good luck ❤️

View Quoted Comment Thats a good way to do it. Thank you for the help! I will talk to the dj, I just wanted some sort of idea on how to do things.

I would speak to your venue about what they suggest - ours had set times for when each course was to be set out based on the time our reception started, which meant dances, entrances, speeches etc had to be organised between courses.

Generally the timeline would be something like -

5 pm - bride and groom announced

5.15 - first course served

6.0 - speeches (parents of the bride and groom)

6.15 - main course served

6.5 - cutting of the cake

7.0 - speeches (bride and groom together)

7.10 - dessert

7.35 - bride and groom first dance

Of course, you'd need to factor in how many speeches you are having, how many dances you are having, and when you want to do things that we aren't including - garter or bouquet toss, father-daughter or mother-son dances, etc.

Your vendors should help you with your timeline. My dj has lots of suggestions for me. He says to bunch the activities together and get everything done before open dancing.

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Thank you I really appreciate the info. I will contact the venue and go from there!

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I will talk to him, thank you so much!