Order of Events

If you're having a plated service, do speeches during the courses. We are having a buffet and will do speeches once everyone has gotten their dessert/coffee & tea. I would do the shoe game after dinner and before you open the dance floor for dancing. This is typically where the first dance would be, but since you're not doing one, it seems like a logical place for the shoe game to go!

I would recommend speeches during supper (if it's buffet then as soon as the last table sits down).

I myself haven't figured out when to do the shoe game if we do it...

View quoted message We’re doing plated, sorry it may not be clear but what I meant by course was each part of the meal!

So my MOH and BM speeches will be during our first course, parent speeches will be during pasta, our speeches will be during the main course or dessert if we have a bunch of time.

We arent going to do any sunset photos. Corralling 300 people is just too much hassle for us and our photographers so we’re going without! We might do some on our own but we’ll see how things go, it’s not a must have.

we aren't making a thing of our cake cutting - it’s going to be private while people are dancing.

View quoted message Dang! Thought I’d changed that! Clearly my phone has different plans!! 😂😂😂

Hi Kelsie,

You don't mention when dinner will be in all that. Are you doing played or a buffet? If a buffet, I'd suggest doing speeches while people are eating - no one wants to wait to get food.

Also, look up when the sunset will be on the day, you might want to incorporate time for some golden hour photos. Speak to your photog about that.

I've read that a lot of (mostly) older people consider the cake cutting as the end of the festivities with just partying after that, so maybe consider some people will leave right after the cake cutting.

View quoted message Sorry, but that's an excellent typo in the last line! 🤣

At most weddings I’ve been to, the speeches happen during the meal.

Our order is going to be something like this

Bridal Party Entrance
Parents Entrance
Bride and Groom Entrance
BM and MOH speeches (during first course)
Parent speeches (and mother son and father daughter dances after sometime during main course)
Bride and Groom Speeches (then our first dance)

and then we open to dancing and will have our bouquet toss and farted toss.