How is my wedding schedule?

lizmyer · May 2013

I am getting married outside, with the reception inside just a few yards away in beautiful Buena Vista, CO. We are having a buffet dinner with a half-open bar, (beer and wine is free, mixed drinks are not) and I am having trouble deciding how my day's events should play out. We will NOT be taking our photos before the wedding. We might take a few pictures of both of us on each side of a door or the corner of a building, but we won't be seeing each other. I know, I should be more progressive, but that is just not something I could even imagine. I just really want that first look to be when I walk down the isle. Call me old fashioned.

3:30p - 4:00p - Wedding Ceremony in the meadow with the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains

4:00p - 4:15 - Family Pictures while guests filter in to cocktail hour

4:00p - 6:00p- Cocktail Hour (with music, appetizers, drinks and plenty of places to sit...)

Here's where the wicket gets sticky. There is this really super cool ghost town where we want to take our bridal party pictures.. However, it is 15-20 min away. Should we do it? Will the masses get restless and terribly bored?

6:00p-7:30p - Dinner

7:30p - 8:00pm - Cake Cutting, Bouquet and Garter Toss (we'll cut our little cake, but cucpcakes for everyone!)

8:30p - 12am or whenever we fall down - First Dance, Mom/Son/Dad/Daughter Dance, Dollar Dance (cuz that's how we do in Colorado...) etc.

What do you think?

saro2109 · May 2013

You can't make your guests wait that long. Pictures aren't exactly quick, especially with a 15-20 minute drive. How badly are you wanting the ghost town pictures?

QueerFemme · May 2013

Your cocktail hour is way too long. It needs to be an hour. If you want cool ghost town photos, you are going to need to do a first look.

Also, your dinner is probably not going to take 90 minutes. You are already asking them to wait 2 hours, and then another 90 minutes to finish dinner? By the time you cut your cake people will already have been at your wedding for 4-5 hours? I"m sorry, that's way way to long.

Also, it's rude and tacky to charge guests for drinks. If you can't affford to host a full bar, then don't. But don't offer drinks that aren't complimentary. Guests should never ever ever have to open their wallet at your wedding.

It would be like inviting someone over for dinner and saying "we are providing chicken, but if you want the lobster, leave 20 bucks on the table. It's rude.

If all you can afford is beer and wine, then that's all you should offer. Period.

Ella and Pedro · May 2013

1. charging for drinks, or anything = horrible idea

2. 2 hour cocktail hour before dinner is served = horrible idea

3. photos at Ghost Town, great idea...but do it before the ceremony OR at the Rehearsal OR the next day

4. It's fine if you want to see your fiance at the first moment walking down the aisle, but if so, do as Stage suggested and do the pictures you can do (without seeing each other) in advance. Such as - you and your bridesmaids, you and your sister/s and/or brothers, you and your parents, your dress, your flowers, your shoes, your rings, your stationery, fiance and his groomsmen, fiance and his sibling/s, fiance and his parents, fiance and his bm, you and your moh, flower girl, ring bearer, whatever--- but be sure to have florist bring flowers before you shoot these so people are wearing their corsages, bouts., and you have your bouquet if you want it

5.Dollar Dance = horrible idea

alithebride · May 2013

do not do a partial cash bar-that's awful. host beer wine and a few coctkails and that's it.
cut your cocktail hour in half.

lizmyer · May 2013

I'm not have a half open bar because I'm cheap. I'm having a half open bar because I don't want a bunch of people downing whiskey and acting a fool.

lizmyer · May 2013

Aww! Come on! It's a tradition where I'm from! Nobody likes to have any fun anymore! :P

imimbles · May 2013

It's been said... but I really really think the cocktail hour should be an hour. Or even less! It's just too long to leave people waiting around for dinner to start.

[Deleted User] · May 2013

We chose to not skip any of the party stuff. We're doing our pictures before the ceremony begins. If you can figure out timing with your photographer (we have ours for 6 hours including getting ready pics, so she won't be there for "leaving" photos, which I don't find a terribly large loss. Not going to pay for 2 more hours for that).

And yeah, it's a cocktail "hour." Why is it two?

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