**revised after reading more posts
5:30pm: ceremony
6pm - 7pm: cocktail hour/photos
7pm - 7:10pm - guests are seated for dinner
7:10pm - cake cutting
7:15pm - 8:15pm, dinner and toasts between courses
We are not having dancing. So at 7pm it will be dinner, speeches, cake and mingling.
As for the speeches, does it sound ok to do them at dinner while guests have their salad? Should it be after everyone is seated but before to food arrives? After dinner? The wedding coordinator at my venue isn't helping much with that. She just tells me, whatever I want to do. So I wanted to find out here what other people do.
We also don't have a DJ (because we can't at the venue) and the staff doesn't do "announcements" SO do we just walk right into the cocktail hour or after guests are seated for dinner? I am just so lost at all of this.
Any ideas/tips/suggestions you may have, I would love