Wedding timeline: 3pm

Here is a sample of ours

10:00 am - arrive at venue to start getting ready

10:30am- start hair and makeup on wedding party and mothers (about 5 women and two flower girls)

1:30 pm- Start brides hair and makeup

3:00 pm- put on wedding dress

3:30pm- Ceremony start time

4-5pm- Cocktail hour/pictures

5:10pm- Grand Entrance to first dance

5:30pm- Dinner is served buffet style

6:30 PM- Speeches

7pm- Father Daughter Dance

7:10- Open Dance Floor

9:15pm- Last Call

9:30- 10pm Clean up/leave

Yes, talk to your stylist and photographer and let them know what you're thinking-- my photographer basically put our timeline together and my stylist had everything broken down to what time she would start our hair, make-up, what order we were going in, etc. We aren't doing a first look either, but my photographer will come take pics of me and my daughter (MOH) before the ceremony, also the first-look with my dad. We're doing a short/30 min ceremony, 1 hour cocktail hour, reception intros, immediately into first dances, dinner will be served, toasts will start as soon as last dinner plate is served, cake-cutting, then dancing and sparkler exit (all will take place between 3:30pm-9:30pm, so 6 hours). We wanted to get all of the "formalities" out of the way early at the reception so our guests could dance/drink/enjoy the night-- DJ's also don't like to keep stopping and restarting the music for things. You'll get it all figured out!