Only 5 hours for ceremony and reception

Thanks for all your input ladies!

Marlina, check out A Practical Wedding. They have some spreadsheets to download that helps with the timeline. :-)

http://apracticalwedding.com/spreadsheets/

You are awesome Jac Jac!

FH and I are having a 10-15 minute ceremony.

7- Wedding starts

7:15- Pictures and Coctail Hour

8- Bridal Party introductions

8:10-First Dance

8:15-Mother/Son Dance

8:20-Father/Daughter Dance

8:30-Dinner begins

8:45- Toasts/Speeches

9-Cake Cutting

9:10-Dance Floor opens

10- Garter/Bouquet Toss

11:30-Goodbyes

12:30-FH and I take a shot of patron and pass out LOL

Haha Lady Crystal we are going to need some shots too! Thanks for sharing : )

My ceremony and reception is only 5 hours..

Ours was 5 hours and went like this:

5-5:30 Ceremony

5:30-6:25 Cocktail hour/photos

6:30 Intros, followed immediately by first dance/father daughter dance/mother son dance,

6:50 Dinner served

Toasts were given while people ate.

7:15-7:50 people ate and we walked around to say hi to everyone.

8pm cake cutting

8:05 bouquet/garter etc

then as soon as we were done with those, DJ pumped up the music and we partied til 10pm when we did our exit.

We also invited everyone to a bar for an after party

Cut ur cake while pple are finishing eating since the head table usually gets fed first meaning u will be done before everyone else finishes

Thans Rev NikKi and LuLu! I think I will have this down packed LOL. Lulu that is very true! Didnt think of that

We won't have a lot of dancing in ours, but here is my tentative timeline:

6AM – 7AM:

• Wake up, Coffee, Breakfast

• Quick Run to wake up

7AM – 9AM:

• Last minute set up

9AM – 10AM

• Shower

• Bridesmaid show up

• Photographer shows up

• Hair

10AM – 11AM

• Makeup

• Get dressed

• Pre-Ceremony Photos

11AM – 12PM

• More pre-ceremony photos

• Light lunch

12PM – 1PM

• Finish photos

• Touch up hair/make up

• Guests arrive

1PM – 2PM

• Ceremony

• Alone time

• Photos w/ Husband

2PM – 2:30PM

• Photos w/ Bridal Party

2:30PM -3:30PM

• Eat and mingle

3:30PM – 4PM

• Toasts

• Cake Cutting

4PM – 5PM

• Dessert

• Dancing

Do most pictures before the ceremony and skip the cocktail hour or make it a half hour. Keep spotlight dances to 2-3 minutes each and try to pair them up (you & dad, him & mom at the same time) or do them in between courses.

3-4 : pictures

4-430: ceremony

430-5: cocktail/pictures

5-630: dinner and spotlight dances, maybe cake cutting

630-9: dancing, bouquet toss, garter

We have 5 hours for everything too! This is our tentative schedule:

1:30 PM Arrive at venue

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Separate bride/groom photos

3:30 PM Ceremony begins (this is when our 5 hours starts)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pictures/Cocktail Hour

5:00 PM Reception begins w/BP and Couple's entrance

5:10 PM First Dance

5:15 PM Dinner is served

6:00 PM Best Man & MOH Toasts (during end of dinner)

6:15 PM Cake cutting (cake served during dances)

6:25 PM Father/Daughter dance... into Mother/Son dance

6:35 PM Anniversary dance (in place of bouquet/garter toss)

6:40 PM Presentation of bouquet for anniversary dance ‘winners’

6:45 PM Dancing begins

8:15 PM Last dance

8:20 PM Bride and Groom say goodbye to their guests

8:30 PM Everyone leaves

Am I the only one that's having a reception till 2am?

I think so Grissssss!

I don't have a time line and I only have 4 hours, I do have an order of events and know that I want to be done with all the important stuff at least an hour before reception ends so we can just have fun and relax but I think 5 hours will be plenty and not rushed, your venue should know the typical time allotments for things running smoothly

Celia is correct - it's up to YOU to make sure that everything starts on time. If you start on time, everything else will fall into place. Your timeline looks fine to me.

I wish you all the best!

I am having the appetizer course brought out right away so we can get the dances/speeches out of the way right away...of course I haven't discussed this with FH. As far as receiving line, after the MOH and BM give their speeches, we are going to do a quick thank you to everyone on the mike and tell the mc to play a really fun song to start the dancing...I too want a PARTY!!!!

Im working with the same timeline! my DJ and i broke it down with this..

ceremony 4

cocktail hour 445

formal photos 5-6

reception 6-10

Sparkler exit at 9:45

order

-dinner / Toasts

-first dance

-cake

-groom/mother dance

-bride/mother dance

-garter

-boquet