Married ladies...Was your 1st dance before or after dinner??

When do you Want to do your cake???

I've been to weddings where they do it right after dinner.

I've been to weddings where they do it near the end of the night.

(in some areas the cake represents the night coming to an end)

* talk to your venue on when THEY like to cut the cake. It takes time to cut and serve all that cake, and they might go down to a minimum staff and wish to get the cake cut by a certain time.

Good idea Hayley...

Thank you, you rock!!

I cant think anymore...

Here is a time line example.... check it out.

http://www.nuptialnet.com/timeline.htm

In MINUTES - not clock time -- 5 hrs reception

0:00 - 0:50 Cocktail hour

0:50 - 0:55 Guest find seat - WP lines up

0:55 - 1:05 Introductions

1:05 - 1:10 B&G 1st dance

1:10 - 1:15 Prayer - Start Dinner

1:15 - 2:15 Meal (have toast During dinner, no reason for staff to wait until 3 toast are done to start bringing out the food)

2:00 toasts

2:15 - 3:15 Open Dance Floor

3:15 Cut Cake

3:20 - 4:00 Open Dance

4:00 - 4:15 Bouquet/Garter

4:20 - 4:55 Open Dance

4:55 - 5:00 Last Dance

I just saw it done after dinner and then they opened the dance floor to everyone which was sweet.

Thank you Hayley...Im coping this!!

We where going to do it after diner but now sorta wondering my timeline isnt done yet

We did it right after or grand entrance, before dinner

Wow, guess I'm in the minority as we did it after dinner. Our reception went as follows:

Cocktail Hour

Entrance/Introductions

Toasts

Dinner - somewhere in there we must have cut the cake

Dessert

First Dance

Open dancing

We did a reception line after the wedding at the church and we had no parent dances. It worked for us! And I wanted to make sure I got dinner and actually got to eat.

We did our as soon as we were introduced. But the wedding I just coordinated did there's right after dinner. It was a lot different but I think depending on the size of the wedding party and guest will kind of let you know what way to go.

Before...we did our first dance right after we were introduced.

We did two dances. One right as we entered and a second one to open the dancefloor. The second dance was a choreographed foxtrot and gave me the perfect opportunity to showcase my reception gown.

Before, immediately after intros.

DJ introduced the parents, then each pair of BMs & GMs, MOH & BM, then us.

Straight to the dance floor we went.