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June 2021

Entrance Help?

Marybeth, on April 7, 2021 at 12:54 PM Posted in Wedding Reception 0 3

I am having a backyard wedding in June.

I'm wondering if I should bother having a bridal party entrance since they will arrive before us. We'll be doing our bride and groom portraits last so they'll be on their way to the reception while we still have an hour of photos.

They'd either have to do the whole thing without us, which I guess is fine, or wait outside the party for an hour - which I'm not making them do, some of them have small kids who they'll need to tend to, they can't just wait in the car.

Should I just have them enter normally and only do an entrance for myself?

Or enter the cocktail hour normally, then just casually walk into the house to do the entrance when we arrive like they weren't there in the first place, lol?

Or just do their entrance without me, videographer won't get any of it because I only have one and they'll be with us for portraits. And just deal with not being there. Then just do my entrance when I get there.

Any ideas would be helpful!

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Latest activity by Lynnie, on April 8, 2021 at 3:55 PM
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    Champion July 2019
    Veronica ·
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    For our wedding, after our bridal party was done with photos they went to cocktail hour. Once we were ready for the grand entrance, they stayed back to line up while the rest of our guests took their seats.
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  • Allison
    Devoted April 2021
    Allison ·
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    It's totally normal to have your bridal party mingle during cocktail hour while you and your groom take some more pictures! I've been in plenty of weddings where this happened, as well as a guest at a number of them. No one bats an eye - it's absolutely to be expected.

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  • Lynnie
    WeddingWire Administrator October 2016
    Lynnie ·
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    Hi Marybeth! I most commonly see what Veronica did - releasing your wedding party to go enjoy the cocktail hour, then they regroup for the reception entrance!!

    We also joined the second half of our cocktail hour, then hung back for a special entrance when our guests were seated for the reception.

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