Day of Timeline

irishmilla02

I'm trying to create a timeline for the actual ceremony/reception time but for some reason I can't figure out when cutting the cake, the speeches and the dances (mother/son, father/daughter and first dance) should take place. What did you knotties do (for the married ones) or what are you planning on doing? Is there a certain way this is supposed to go? We aren't doing a garter or bouquet toss and that was the only thing I kind of knew when it was supposed to happen. Thanks for your help ladies. The closer I get to the wedding, the more my brain shuts down it seems.

maui2011

We plan to do our first dance right after our pics are taken during the cocktail hour when the dj announces us right before the start of dinner...still not sure how I want to be annouced as my FI and I are having a disagreement re: my last name...I want to keep my last name or at least hypenate but he wants me to take his...anyhoo that's another issue...not sure if we will have the father/daughter & mother/son dance...but if we do it will probably kick off the dancing portion of the reception.  The cake cutting will take place about an hour before the end of the reception...oh right now not sure if we will be doing speeches...may do this at the welcome dinner/bbq instead due to the 10:00 pm cut off time...really want to get as much dancing in as possible. HTH! J. :-)

diorgrl8

so we get the most photo ops, we're doing things backwards: bride & groom entrance, cake cutting, toasts/speeches..then eatting...Not sure we're doing dances since ours is in a restaurant, so i'm not sure if that could even go before the actual dinner/lunch. If your ceremony and reception are at the same place, you may not have to do it this way...but it does make sure those moments are captured BEFORE your photographer runs out of time GL!!

carrieoz_76

We'll probably do something like this: cocktails toasts before dinner (but maybe after) dinner special dances cut cake I hear that cutting the cake is the cue to ppl that they can leave, so it's best to leave that for last.

kaesha

Here's what we did (and with the military precision my family is used to):6:00 - call for dinner6:01 - Uncle does dinner blessing6:02 - 6:08: My Dad does a welcome/thank you toast/speech. At the end, he invited us up to cut the cake6:08 - 6:15 - we say thank you & then surprised everyone with the song, then cut the cake. We didn't feed it to each other because I didn't want to spoil my appetite!6:15 - plated salad course (we snuck out for extra sunset pics here)6:25 - 7:25 - dinner (we expected it to be shorter, but people kept on eating!)7:25-7:35 bridesmaid & best man did their speeches.7:35 - cake7:45 - first dance and then we stayed on the dance floor the rest of the night.

LilSwtAzyn

we had so many speeches and things go on.. i had to map is out and print one for everyone involved... and we didn't have an MC just our friends introducing each other.. it was intense.. heres what it looks like 3:45pm Limo to pick up shawn starr and bridal party 3:45pm officiant arrives at uncles Kahu Bruce Kevin to usher guests 4:15pm Bridal Party to arrive at wedding 4:25pm Guests sits 4:30pm CEREMONY -Groomsmen and Kahu Bruce -parent and bridal party processional(more than words-extreme) Masa Carolyn Grant Lydia Sita Pisei Melanie -bride’s procession(snow patrol-chasing cars) Ken Bopha and Tya -recession(song?) 4:50pm ceremony complete guests leave family pictures wedding party and family photos 5:00pm DJ Ryan arrive at Halekulani for set up 5:30pm Bride and groom and family leave for Halekulani 5:45pm Begin cocktail hour at Halekulani 6:00pm Bride and groom arrive at Halekulani 6:00pm Begin slide show of Cambodian wedding (shown in ballroom on loop) Moms, dads, bride and groom man door to invite guests into ballroom (HAWAIIAN MUSIC FOR BEGINNING AND DINNER) 6:35pm Laine Matsuda , Chris Lee (Table 16) Laine invite guest to take a seat Chris Lee to introduce wedding party Introducing masa and Carolyn takahashi (no music) Introducing ken and bopha Ping Introduction of wedding Party –(bringing sexy back: Justin timberlake) Introduction of Mr & Mrs Takahashi (Justin- "all my life") 6:45pm Laine welcome and housekeeping -where is the bathroom -guestbook inserts!! -dinner how to be excused? Steve Kobashigawa (table 18) Bless food 6:50pm Wedding party served dinner 7:30pm Korey (best man) and Allan Miyashiro (table 10) calls for toasts and banzai! (should happen as soon as last table gets food) Korey introduce Bopha and Ken 7:35pm Bopha and Ken Speech 7:40pm Pisei Ping (sister of bride) Speech 7:45pm Slideshow (DJ Ryan to press play) 8:00pm Bestman Toasts- Korey Maid of Honor Toasts- Melanie 8:10pm Bride and groom first dance (snow patrol-chasing cars) – (DJ RYAN- please start song as soon as dance announced… before bride and groom hit dance floor) father/daughter dance (james talor- you’ve got a friend) mother/son dance (new colony six-I will always think about you) 8:25pm Jason Imada and Darren Nakagaki Speech 8:30pm Carolyn, Masa, Jason Takahashi Speech 8:35pm cake cutting (How Sweet It Is-James Taylor) 8:45pm Bride and Groom thank you speech -aunty uncle herb -kathe and joel -shawn starr -moms and dads -friends and family -titus 8:50pm Julie and Alexis dance!!! (Daft Punk-Better faster stronger) 9:00pm (DJ RYAN introduce) Bouquet toss- (Beyonce- All my single ladies) ((DJ RYAN introduce) Garter toss- (Busta Rhymes introduction) 9:10pm “kick off” (everybody dance now) 11:00pm end of night last dance so (Alison Kraus- when you say nothing at all)