order of events @ a reception i.e. garter, toss, first dance, cake cutting

We're doing: bride and groom only entrance immediately followed by toasts (with the drinks everyone has in hand). Then dinner, cake, first dance, father daughter dance. No garter toss for us. Hope that helps!

Here's what we did:

Cocktail hour (while the bridal party takes photos)

The bridal party is introduced back into the reception (by your DJ or in our case, a friend because we didn't have a DJ, we just did the iPod thing)

We went directly into our first dance

We did the father/daughter and mother/son dances here, I don't know if your FH will have a dance with his mother, you didn't mention her.

Then our announcer asked everyone to please find their seats

MOH and Best Man toasts

Opened the buffet

Dinner

Cake Cutting

Then we let everyone mingle for maybe 15-20 minutes

Then we did the bouquet & garter tosses

Here is what we are planning:

Bridal party entrance

Mothers entrance

Our entrance

First dance

Dinner

Bridal Party Toast (during dinner)

Cake cutting

Party

We're not doing the bouquet/garter toss

Gosh it went by in such a whirl but i think this is how ours went lol...hard to remember it all

*there was a cocktail hour while the bridal party took pictures together

*after that, the bridal party was announced in by the DJ

*my husband and i were then introduced and we went right in to our first dance song which i LOVED that we did it that way!

*we then sat down for dinner--as all of our guests ate their dinner my husband and i went to all the tables and greeted everyone...i found it to be the easiest way.

*father/daughter dance

*mother/son dance

*we danced for a little bit

*i then believe we had the cake cutting

*after the cake cutting was the speeches

*we danced some more

*we then had the bouquet toss and after that was the garter toss--the garter didn't even end up being tossed though lol.

*after that lots more dancing and then the sparkler exit!

hope that helped some!

We did entrance straight to first dance, dinner, toasts, cake cutting then father daughter followed by mother son dances. We then had cake served and did two hours of dancing, the bouquet toss, and another hour and a half of dancing. That's my memory

I think we'll be doing...

-entrance

-welcome/blessing

-food

-toasts

-cake cutting/dessert

-first dance

-parrtttyyyyyyyy.

We are doing

-Bridal Party entrance

-Our entrance

-first dance

-toasts

-dinner

-bride/dad Groom/mom dance

-cake cutting

-bouquet, garter toss

Our venue recommended this order of events to us and I thought it worked out very well!

-Bridal Party Entrance

-Our Entrance

-First Dance

-Dinner/we greet everyone

-Cake cutting

-Toasts

-Father/daughter and mother/son dance

-Dancing

-later in the evening we did a special anniversary dance and gave my toss bouquet to my grandparents as the longest married couple attending the reception

-More dancing

Thank you al so much for your comments it helped a lot.

Ours:

-Parents entrance

-Bridal Party entrance

-Bride and Groom entrance

-First Dance

-Bride/FOB dance

-Groom/MOB Dance

-Cake cutting (this may move)

-Speeches from BM and MOB

-Dinner

-Table vistits

-Cake cutting (if it moves it will go here)

-Dance floor opens

No garter toss or boquet toss

Here's mine, remember to make room for last minute day of craziness. We rearranged a couple things on the fly:

~Cocktail hour after ceremony - allowing quiet time for me and husband right after the ceremony (photo booth, I thought was supposed to open after we were announced but it opened for the cocktail hour)

~Photos of wedding party and family took place during cocktail hour-make sure your caterer visits the wedding party so you all eat!!

~Wedding party was announced into reception (really only bridesmaids and groomsmen, the flower girls kinda went MIA with the photo booth so we just let them have fun)

~We were announced then did a great group photoshot of the entire wedding

~Everyone invited to take their seats

~Speeches from maid of honor and best man

~Buffet was served (bridal party first) (I actually cannot remember if we did dinner and then speeches or the other way around?? I think we did speeches first because the caterer needed more time)

~First dance (we were going to do first dance right after the group photo but decided to hold off since it was pretty hot and I didn't want us to be sweaty and gross during the first dance)

~Dancing

~Cake

~Father/Daughter dance

~more dancing

~Bouquet toss (no garter toss, he didn't want to)

~more dancing