when do you do everything @the reception?

[Deleted User] · March 2012

What are the time frames for everything? I know the first dance is right after we are all introduced @the reception but when does everything else happen? Ie when would we cut the cake? Anniversary dance? Etc etc.

musicjailbird7 · March 2012

The schedule is pretty much at your disposal, there's no right or wrong way to do it.... well basically you can do it a wrong way but that's only if you have cake first, then dancing, then toasts, then dinner or something silly like that... My coordinator says he often has toasts first, then dinner, then first dance, then cake.

rlavach · March 2012

Like PP said, you can really do it however you want. You can talk to your coordinator or DJ for ideas. This is what we're doing

Introductions

3 dance songs

First dance

mother/son dance

father/daughter dance

dinner

cake cutting

dance to end

fpaemp2011 · March 2012

Everyone's is different, but this was ours:

6:30 Appetizers out—Mocktail Bar Open

7:30 Bridal Party and Bride & Groom arrive

7:35 Bride & Groom’s First Dance

7:40 Welcome by Bride's Parents-Prayer for Dinner

7:45 Dinner & Fellowship—Candy Buffet open

8:30 Toasts & Cake Cutting

8:40 Father/Daughter Dance

8:45 Mother/Son Dance

8:50 Anniversary/Bouquet Dance

8:55 Open Dancing/Fellowship

10:00 Bride & Groom leave

jemmini6 · March 2012

Ditto PP's, it's completely up to you. Ours was roughly:

6:00 - Grand entrance
6:05 - Dinner
6:20 - Table rounds (while most guests were still eating)
6:40 - Toasts
6:45 - Spotlight dances (first dance, parents)
7:00 - Open dancing
7:45 - Cake cutting
7:50 - Newlywed game (while guests were eating cake)
8:00 - Open dancing

SKPM · March 2012

Ours will be pretty similar to jemmimi's. That was basically how my DOC recommended it, and it sounds reasonable enough to me.

JaxInBlue · March 2012

Our schedule (after a 2:00 ceremony) was:
3:00 Cocktail hour (BP pictures)
4:30 Introductions & first dance
4:50 Mingling w/guests
5:00 Toasts & blessing
5:10 Dinner
5:30 Table rounds
6:00 Father daughter/mother son dances
6:10 open dancing starts
7:00 Cake cutting
7:05 Anniversary dance (in lieu of any tosses)

We didn't have any formal programming after the anniversary dance. Things wrapped up around 10.

mdeidre · March 2012

What's an anniversary dance?

fpaemp2011 · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_customs-traditions_when-do-you-do-everything-the-reception?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:36Discussion:ee06bb54-f0c5-4c04-bfeb-55f3711127cbPost:8abfec38-7056-487c-a034-7a445cbd97f9">Re: when do you do everything @the reception?</a>:
[QUOTE]What's an anniversary dance?
Posted by mdeidre[/QUOTE]
We did ours in lieu of the bouquet toss (I didn't even wear a garter, so there was nothing in place of that). We asked all the married couples to come on the dance floor and the music started. Less than a minute into the song, the emcee asked everyone married for less than 24 hours to sit down (H&I), then 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, etc, until there was only one couple left. We gave the "toss" bouquet to the couple who had been married the longest. For us, it was 67 years.<div>
</div><div>We played the original "God Gave Me You" by Dave Barnes.</div>

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