Reception timeline

Re: Reception timeline

• fallbride1109 member

  

  July 2012 edited July 2012

  Our reception was 4 hours also.  Actually, your DJ can actually help you with your flow of events.  Here was ours:
  
  B&G entrance
  First dance
  Dinner
  Cake cutting and toasts (1 hour after dinner service started)
  Dancing
  Garter/bouquet (1 hour after cake cutting/1 hour before reception over)
  Dancing
  Exit
  
  We didn't do any other spotlight dances but you can easily fit those in.  Most girls suggest doing it earlier to have them done and out of the way.  You can also have dinner first and do all the dances (including the first dance) after dinner.

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• Maggie0829 member

  

  July 2012

  Do you want to do the spotlight dances before or after dinner?
  
  Do you want to cut your cake right after dinner or about an hour before the end of your reception?
  
  Do you want to do speeches prior to or after dinner has been served?
  
  This is my personal preference for reception timelines...
  Spot light dances (first, F/D, M/S)
  Dinner served
  Speeches near end of dinner
  Cake cutting right after dinner
  Bouquet/garter toss
  Party time!! (dancing for rest of reception)
  
  I have been to a lot of weddings where things were spread out through the night and whenever something else came up, the DJ's would stop the dancing, move people off the dance floor and then we would have to stand there and watch whatever was going on.  I find that doing this really kills the pary atmosphere.  Once the party starts just let it keep going.  If it keeps stopping and starting it is really hard to enjoy yourself and keep in that party mode.

  
  

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• ElisabethJoanne member

  

  July 2012

  I agree with Maggie, but for me it's more about not having my conversations interrupted. Our reception timeline is something like this. It's a holiday Monday, so we're skewing all the "have-tos" early so people can politely leave relatively early, but dancing can go until 9 or 10. We also have lots of elderly guests and guests with small children, and children are invited.
  
  5-5:30 B'ruchot/Grace/Toasts
  5:30-6:30 dinner
  6:30-7 cake cutting and service
  7- first dance
  
  No tosses, no formal send-off

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• petitmonstree

  

  July 2012 edited July 2012

  Thank you ladies! Maggie you made a really good point about that so I think I might do it similar to yours. Thanks! :

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