Discussions from Wedding reception

My fiance and I are getting married October 10 of this year in a small country church in southern Saskatchewan. We're trying to keep our theme 'Prairie Saskatchewan" without it being too country. My...

Hi ladies! I had a friend place her cake on a wine barrel instead of a table. Also, a person on another forum, shared that she put her cake on an urn. Please share ideas of an object I can put a cake...

FH and I have hired a local baker to make our wedding cake, but the trouble is we can't decide on a flavour combination! She basically told us any combination we come up with she can do. What are your...

Hello everyone, My fiancé and I are planning a trip to Ireland this year. Although we envisioned being married in September in my hometown, we’d love to elope in Ireland while we’re there and simply...

I am currently planning my wedding for the 19 of September but I am having a hard time finding a reception site. I really wanted to do an all out door wedding. We have booked an out door ceremony site...

I have two dilemmas. I am having a 50 person or so wedding in October. The groom and I decided to each invite around 25 people. Not an issue for the groom as he has a small family. I on the other hand...

Hi there lovelies! I've booked to have my wedding at Deer Creek Golf Club Summer 2021 and at the time of booking thought it was the best decision of my life - It's pretty (even prettier after renos),...

Hi everyone, My fiancé and I would like to honour our grandparents who have passed away at the wedding reception. What are some ways we could do that so it would be meaningful to the rest of our...

We have our wedding on a Sunday. We have the DJ for 2.5 hours for cocktail hour and dinner music. Then 4 hours of dance. If we start at 4pm for cocktail hour then the DJ would end at 10:30pm. I am...

Morning everyone! I'm just looking for some outside opinions on a situation that just came up. I emailed the baker that I had been hoping to order cupcakes and a small 6" cake from back in October and...

I am in no way trying to be rude or thinking we will profit from our wedding, and that is NOT why we are getting married. But I am super curious of the cash vs gifts. How many guest did you have? What...

Hi WeddingWire fam, here I am again seeking advice One question I have googled but did not get a proper answer for is: "How to plan a reception?" For instance, I don't know where to begin after the...

Hello all! Just wondering your thoughts on day-of coordination services. Has anyone asked a relative or friend to take on this role? Or outside vendors? What have been your experiences? Thanks!...

Have you ever been to a wedding where people have not done favours? Were they missed by guests? I am contemplating not doing favours because nothing is really jumping out at me that I think guests...

I love cake. I get extra excited for birthdays and weddings and baby showers because there will be cake. I promised my fiance that we would pause the wedding planning over the holidays and now we are...

I would like to leave little custom notepads at each place setting and have each guest leave a memory of the day, well wishes and advice for future years and then deposit them in little jars for us to...

What did everyone do for seating chart? My meals are same for everyone. Was it easier to do labels with folded cards or print a big seating chart by dealing with a vendor? I know this is task for last...

Has anyone else struggled to find a first dance song? We can’t seem to find anything we like enough to make our first dance. We have been trying to find acoustic covers of faster songs that we like...

So today met the first decorator that I want to. And eeekkkk. The cost of them. I knew it was gonna be pricey. I didn't even ask for a lot. (Especially when i think of some of the stuff that you can...

I don't like the idea of the wedding party sitting at a head table at the front of the room presiding over the guests like royalty. It feels weird and too hard to visit, as you're all facing away from...

How does one pick a DJ there is so many out there, kinda over whelming. Then I also heard of people skipping the whole DJ idea and just playing music off a device with Spotify. If you done Spotify how...

Hello ladies! So my matron of honour suggested to me an idea to trim our budget, having a reception without a dinner but have a snack bar later in the evening. Our ceremony and reception will be at...

I tried to look up some wedding transportation for guests here but there werent many options. So hopefully someone can help me out. We were thinking of transporting our guests from our venue to their...

Anyone doing buffet style as opposed to servers? What sort of foods are you planning?

Hi everyone! I really want to make sure my wedding favours are doing something to help the community. I wanted to give a donation in lieu of a favour, but my fiance is fearful that people will ask...

So, my ORIGINAL idea was to not have any kids at all, but someone... not gonna name any names, FIL, is making a huge fuss about his daughter not being able to make the reception. If I invite her to...

We have been looking into venues and we found the perfect venue for our budget but it's about two and a half hours away from where me and the rest of my family are located. My only hesitation with...