An Exit... if you aren't exactly leaving

Haha we didn't. We were on the last shuttle back to the hotel from our venue, so there were like 10 people there when we left.

I have no clue how to do this! We might have an after-party at the swanky hotel bar/restuarant where we're staying the night so some might come with us (family LOVES to party) but if we don't and everyone just sorta leaves on their own, I want sparklers

I am thinking we will just do a last dance and then head off to our hotel room.

Ohhh that our problem!! Our wedding is over at 9pm! On a Saturday!!! 10pm is the longest we can go but that costs an extra $750 for the hour. So us leaving that early is kinda sucky. We have the B&B rented that is attached to the venue so they take us in a nice car there, but we are still trying to figure out if there is a place we can go to after the wedding since its sooooooo early!!!

I want to party until the fat lady sings!

We won't be bailing on our guests.

Our reception is across the street from the hotel where everyone will be staying. It ends at 10pm so I'm hoping to walk to a local bar afterwards with whichever guests want to hang still! No exit for us, we'll be there til the end.

We wont be the first or the last to leave. We have no set time either, just whenever we ready. We will then change our clothes and leave.

Thank you for posting this because this is our issue too! I would like to have some exit pictures because I've seen so many great one's online. Our ceremony/reception are at a mansion and then we are staying in one of the rooms afterwards and our reception ends at 11pm on a Saturday.

We just took a load of stuff to the car and drove to the hotel. only two of my friends (and i have been to like 15 weddings in the past two years) had a grand exit - one had sparklers but i wasn't able to travel to that one so i can't say how it went and another just walked out and got into a horse drawn carriage for a ride around the city before they went next door to the hotel. that was a cool moment for the newlyweds i think, but as guests we kind of stood around waiting for it and then had to go back in to get our stuff to leave

You DJ mentioned we were leaving. We said good-bye to our families, and just walked out. No fanfare.

We didn't do an exit. Our crowd is mostly older, married, some with children, so though we were prepared to go till midnight, our reception was over by about 10:30 and we helped with the cleanup (some of our items were family momentous like the antique hand made lace tablecloth tatted by my great grandmother from the head table) that we knew we wanted to take care of packing up ourselves.

I highly doubt we'll do one. Ceremony and reception at the same place and I want to party til the party ends.

It sounds like you mean exit the ceremony to the reception? We just walked out. But we did do a sparkler send-off at the end of the night. I loved it, it was magical. I was more interested in getting to the hotel though. If you know what I'm sayin'.

I'm being super over zealous with these "exits."

Our ceremony and reception are on the same property within a block from each other, probably less than that.

We're doing a rose exit from our ceremony (people toss the rose petals over us as we walk back down the aisle). I'm doing that mostly for the picture value.

Then, we're doing a sparkler exit from our reception. Also mostly for the picture value, and sparklers are awesome.

Yeah, I'm totally into that exit crap, even though I'm not even really "exiting" after the rose petals. We're exiting from the ceremony in the front yard... to our getaway car that will drive us around the corner to their backyard for photos, and then exiting to that same vehicle after the sparklers. So excessive.

We aren't having a grand exit because we don't have end-times to weddings here. Usually people leave after last-call which is at 2AM but people leave at scattered times all night.

We partied down with our guests until 2 a.m. when the DJ stopped playing. The limo came at 2:15 to come pick us up and take us to our hotel. We just said goodbye to who ever was left at our reception.

We will be the last to leave so no exit for us! Thought about doing a faux exit with sparklers on the way out to light the lanterns for some nice pics but mom thinks it will be too much.... it could be!

We were just talking about this yesterday. Our wedding is all on one property - ceremony in the courtyard, reception indoors, and everyone is staying in the building across the courtyard from the reception.

After the ceremony we are walking down the aisle and driving off in my dad's 1967 austin healey.. (pretty much driving off property for a moment for everyone to clear -- and for cool pictures) then coming back for pictures etc.

But after the reception we don't know what to do. The event coordinator said most people just spill into the bar (down the hall from the reception space) afterwards. So I don't want to do a fake exit... if we are going to head to the bar too.. ok bye again, just kidding! But - I do love the sparkler thing!

I really don't know what to do for this. I don't want sparklers or anything of that nature. Our reception is at the 25th floor, so at some point, we will have to get on the elevator to get out.

The last 3 weddings I've been to have a fake exit.

The Dj announces that the photographer is getting ready to leave so they are doing a staged exit for pictures but to please join the bride and groom back inside after pictures to continue the celebration!