How much dancing will you have?

I am having 1-2 hours of dancing. Probably moreso in the middle of 1.5 hours. I think only having one hour is ok

Our ceremony is at 4pm, with cocktail hour starting at 4:30pm. The DJ will have the music up and running, and open the dance floor during cocktail hour if people want to dance. Then we'll do a brief break while we are introduced at the reception, then our first dance, then dinner. Once dinner is mostly done, the DJ will open up the dance floor again for the rest of the night. So, about 3 hours of dancing, maybe a bit more.

Maybe go back to your timeline and take a hard look at how much time your are giving everything.

Speeches take no more than 3 minutes each (otherwise it is too long, people will be bored)

Cake cutting - no more than 5 minutes, people also don't really need to be gathered, you can cut cake with just parents and the photographer.

Special dances - you can probably have your DJ cut down songs to maybe 1.5-2 minutes, 3+ minutes of slow dancing is a really long time.

Bouquet/Garter toss - maybe 3 minutes each (one song)

Hopefully that gives you some extra time!

An hour is fairly short. What is your current schedule that’s allowing you only one hour of dancing the whole night?

View Quoted Comment Thanks for the advice. We will earn some time back as our venue coordinate definitely has more time than need for speeches and such, and we’ve talked about that. But that earns us back maybe 20 minutes. We will be invite people to join the father/daughter, mother/son dances. So there's that.

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There's the schedule our venue coordinate out together. Obviously we’ll earn some time back with the cake cutting and speeches but not a ton.

6:00 to 6:30 PM

Ceremony

6:30 to 6:35 PM

Group Photo

6:30 to 7:30 PM

Cocktail Hour

7:30 PM

Grand Entrance... Announcing B&G/Wedding Party

7:35 PM

Welcome Speech Given By Groom

7:45 PM

Buffet Dinner

8:30 PM

Toasts (BM, MOH)

Mic drops not permitted under any circumstances

**Wants toasts will dinner is still served**

8:40 PM

Cake Cutting

8:50 PM

First Dances (B&G, F/D, M/S)

9:45 to 10:45 PM

Open Dancing / Bouquet & Garter Toss

**wants this once people have had a few drinks in them*

10:45 PM

Last Song for guests

10:50 PM

Brick Presentation Ceremony

10:55 PM

Last dance song Bride & Groom only

**NO ONE in the dance floor space. DJ & Photographer ONLY**

11:00 PM: End of Event

There is no way your special dances should take 55 minutes. That should only be 3 songs. I would just do the 3 dances and open up the dance floor after those are done. That way there is more time for open dancing.

View Quoted Comment Omg! I just noticed a mistake in the schedule both on my copy and in the early email from the venue!! Dancing actually starts 8:50. So there is dancing from 8:50 to 10:50, 2 hours 😍😍😍

View Quoted Comment I know!!! I totally didn't realize the mistake until I posted it here 😂

Good! Two hours is much better, just a single hour of dancing will end once it feels like the party is just getting started. Happy dancing 💃🏻 ❤️

Thanks everyone! I just emailed the venue to have them fix the schedule. I knew 1 hour felt super short, I can't believe I didn't notice the mistake on the schedule.

NEW6:00-6:30: Ceremony6:30-6:35: Group Photo6:30-7:30: Cocktail Hour7:30: Grand Entrance... Announcing B&G/Wedding Party7:35 Welcome Speech Given By: Groom7:45: Buffet Dinner8:30: Toasts (BM, MOH)-Mic drops not permitted under any circumstances **Wants toasts will dinner is still served** 8:35: Cake Cutting8:40: First Dances (B&G, F/D, M/S)8:50: Open Dancing 8:50-10:45: Dance Party/ Bouquet & Garter Toss **wants this once people have had a few drinks in them*10:45: Last Song for guests10:50: Brick Presentation Ceremony10:55: Last dance song Bride & Groom only **NO ONE in the dance floor space. DJ & Photographer ONLY**11:00: End of Event

Were having dancing the whole reception lol

View Quoted Comment Yep! I just saw your timeline and was going to ask about that gap in time. Glad you were able to catch that and gain an hour of dancing.

Our dance floor opens right around 8:30ish and closes when we have our grand exit around 10:45.

We will have about 3 hours of dancing with a break in between for cake cutting/dessert. FH and my families are big dancers/ partiers so we knew we needed a good amount of dancing time.

I am having 5 hours of dancing