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Wedding Day Timeline

amber+richard05amber+richard05
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in Texas-Dallas and Ft. Worth
This is something I have needed to work on forever and I have been avoiding it. We are having a evening ceremony and reception so I was hoping for those that have the same wouldn't mind sharing their time line with me. Thanks Ladies!
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Re: Wedding Day Timeline

  • fallbride1109fallbride1109 member
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    edited December 2011
    I remember asking this and everyone was really helpful.  Here's how mine ended up:

    9:00am - Rise and shine/breakfast
    10:00-Noon - Girls shower/relax
    Noon - Lunch delivered
    1:00pm - MUA arrives
    2:00pm - Flowers arrive
    1:00-4:00 - Get ready
    4:00pm - Photographer arrives/bride gets dressed
    4:30pm - Reveal
    5:00pm - Bridal party/family pictures
    6:00pm - Photographer shoots details
    7:00pm - Ceremony
    7:30pm - Cocktails for guests/Bride and Groom pictures
    8:15pm - Bride and groom announced/first dance
    8:20pm - Welcome
    8:30pm - Dinner served
    9:00pm - Dance floor opens
    9:30pm - Toasts/cake
    10:30pm - Bouquet/garter
    11:15pm - Last dance for guests
    11:20pm - Private last dance for bride/groom
    11:30pm - Exit
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  • bdettecrowbdettecrow
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    edited December 2011
    I googled "Wedding Day Timeline" and found a few that I combined together and tweaked to make work for me.
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
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    edited December 2011
    Stephiehall - your timeline looks about how I want my night to go. 

    DId you get married on a Friday or a Saturday night?  And how close to the schedule did everything run?

    Im not expecting eveything to to be right on the dot, but was there a huge delay in when the ceremony actually started and did that off set everything else, or was it all pretty much within 5-10 minutes of when scheduled?
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  • fallbride1109fallbride1109 member
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    edited December 2011
    Anne, we pretty much stayed on schedule.  My photographer padded her time quite a bit so even though we were about 15 minutes off to start, we easily made it up and ended up meeting our DJ right at 8:15 when we were supposed to.  He kept us on track from there and it was perfect.

    If I had it to do over, I would have had my MUA get there at noon.  We were pretty much hanging around relaxing with nothing to do and I would have loved to have that extra hour for us to get ready towards the end of things.
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  • tiffnrich2010tiffnrich2010
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    edited December 2011

    So I'm not sure if it's really important- BUT if you were having seperate people do hair & make-up which would you do 1st? Does it really matter?

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  • MsLaura31MsLaura31
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    edited December 2011

    Tiff,

    Not a professional answer or anything, but when I've been in a wedding (or for like prom) I always put primer, foundation and powder on in the morning right after I've washed my face. I feel like it "sticks" better when my face is clean. Then I do hair, or whatever, and finish with the color (blush, eye shawdow, etc...).

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  • fallbride1109fallbride1109 member
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    edited December 2011
    Kristin started my hair, then did makeup, then finished my hair and put my veil in.  Hair takes the longest.  I would do hair first.
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    With All the Trimmings
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