Wedding timeline help!

Dinner timing should be for 6pm if your having speeches done and the parents/wedding party giving the speeches food is getting cold in the meantime.

I do agree the cake cutting should be done before dinner since it will be served as dessert later.

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That makes sense. Most weddings I've been to (and ours) had cake cutting around when cake is served.

What do you think about first dance as soon as you get into the reception?


Then you have some break and time for father and daughter dance after dinner. Then do cutting cake after father and daughter dance?

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Ahhh gotcha ! thank you for the input I appreciate it

What are your thoughts on cutting cake right after dinner?

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Yeah thats true I feel I might just want to get all those things done so we can dance and have fun with our friends and family afterwards! Im thinking starting to get ready around 11 am (my MOA is doing 4 of our makeup!) and then 2pm do the first touch with my FH then the ceremony at 3

Its hard because I want it to all go as planned but I know for a fact I wont even be worried about it you know?

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Oh than you!!!

I talked to my photographer (since I work with him and hes to knowledgable LOL) he pretty much said just have a general time for guests to see and how w could do 1 round of dinner then start speeches kind of thing!

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View quoted message Yeah you could do that!! That would work out great!


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If that's what you want, go for it. In my experience, couple dances that take place during or after dinner (basically when people are seated with food or drink in front of them) are paid less attention to (in case that matters to you).

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I don't think it's too much at all!

Every wedding is different! Do what you and your fiance want to do! If you want to have the speeches after dinner, then go for it! There's no right or wrong answer for this!

View quoted message My fiance has mentioned he wants dinner and then speeches... but I wonder if we did dinner, cake cutting and while everyone has desert or 2nds for food speeches?


This is probably one of the biggest stressor I have right now!

View quoted message I do too, do you think the first dances, garter/bouquet toss and then open to the dance floor is too much???


My fiance has mentuoned he wants dinner and then speeches... could I do speeches/cake cutting together? What are your thoughts?

View quoted message I completely agree leaving more time for the first touch.
The ceremony will be 20-30 mins max my commissier said. We don't have a "set time" we have to close so it's very open.

My fiancé had said he wants to do the dances after dinner... do you think doing the 3 dances then the bouquet/garter toss right after before we open the dance floor up would be OK?

I personally like having all dances including first dance after dinner

You could have the tosses after cake cutting and so that you have more time you could put your speeches during dinner. So people dish up then have a speech, eat some more and then have another speech. My aunty did that and it was nice to have a bit of entertainment while you ate and then you can talk about the speeches with your table!

You might want to give a bigger buffer between you reading letters/first touch and the ceremony. If you cry while reading them, you might need to fix your make up.

I personally would swap the first dance to have it go right after your entrance and then go into dinner. Speeches after dinner where you placed first dance.

You can have father/bride and mother/groom dances after speeches if you want to break up the dances.

Have the garter and bouquet toss right before you open up the dance floor. Because a lot of people are standing, it'll make it easier.