Please share your day of schedule

Such a good topic!! I was JUST thinking I wanted to start planning mine, but wasn't sure where to begin.

Ladies I am excited to see!

I have not made one yet, but I have a 'day of' planner so I will let her handle the logistics....I will probably only say something if there is something major I want/need to do that day...

3PM - wedding party, helpful friends, vendors appear

-bride/bm groom/gm get ready

-MIL and MOB coordinate where vendors set up; also coordinate helpful friends setting up the scene

-Photographer starts taking pics of bridal party getting ready

4PM - First look; group photos

430PM - guests arrive, are seated down BY 5PM

5PM - Ceremony begins

520PM - Guests head to cocktail time, groom and bride take intimate pics

6PM - Guests seated at reception, plates set etc.

- Toasting, speeches, thanks! etc!

620PM - First dance

640PM - Cut the cake

7PM - Garter toss

7-11PM - Party!

9am- hairdresser and makeup artist coming to hotel

finish by 1ish try and eat something- get dressed

145pm- get pickedup by trolley to go take pics at our cabin

2pm- arrive and start taking pics

245pm- take trolley into town for pics

415pm- head to the ceremony site

430- start ceremony

5- cocktail hour

6- announce party and do first dance

615ish- everyone sit and toasts start

630- food

730- father daughter/groom mother dance

then dancing until

830- cut cake followed by bouquet toss and garter

then dancing until 10pm

I was just working on mine today. Nowhere near complete but this is what I have so far.

6:00 wake up - Jess

6:45 Jess showers @ mom's

7:00 wake up - Dan

7:15 Dan showers @ home

8:15 Jess leaves house - picks up bagels

8:30 Dan goes to mom's

9:15 hair starts

12:15make-up starts

1:30 Dan get dressed

3:00 Check-in - Dan

4:15 Leave for Catlin

4:45 Green room - Dan, Suite - Jess gets dressed

5:15 Jess photos in garden - florist arrives

5:45 Dan photos in garden

6:00 Prelude music, guests start arriving

6:20 last minute pee

6:25 line up for processional

6:30 Ceremony begins!

7:00 Cocktail hour/pictures

7:55 guests ushered into reception

8:00 Grand entrance

8:05 1st dance - Amazed

8:10 Jess & grandpa - TBD

8:15 Dan & mom - TBD

8:20 Dinner served

12:00 - Good night!

Still have to add in: cake cutting, MOH speech?, Best man speech,eat, VIP ceremony seating. Detail photo shots ex: dress on hanger, shoes, rings, boquet, ect, groom detail shots, photog, videographer & DJ arrive. VERY rough draft.

Well you saw mine in my post. I made a few changes but not many. Ty is even dropping my items off the day before so that helped me in the set up area but still working on the storage part.

Saturday, 8/13/11

10:00am Hair/Makeup begins for bridal party at venue

12:00pm Rentals delivers plates, glasses and silverware

3:00pm Bride begins hair/makeup

Groom, groomsmen and flower girl arrive at venue and begin getting ready

4:00pm Joyful Details on site to assist with getting ready/photos

Altared DJ arrives and begins set up for ceremony

Southern’s Fine Catering on site to set up for reception

4:30pm Florist on site to set up for ceremony & reception

5:00pm Photography on site for getting ready photos

Bride and her attendants and family take their photos

Flowers are distributed and pinned by Joyful Details

Cake Creation delivers and sets up cakes

5:15pm Groom & groomsmen take photos

5:30pm First glance photos with bride and groom

Officiant on site to prepare

5:45pm Prelude music begins

5:55pm All attendants and family lined up for ceremony

5:55pm All attendants and family lined up for ceremony

6:00pm Song “Just a Kiss” by Lady Antabellum begins for seating

Bridal Party Entrance

6:30pm End of the ceremony. Guests will go inside for cocktail hour

Bridal party and family will finish up remaining photos

7:10pm Couple is announced as “Rachel & Daniel Zimmerman”

7:15pm Buffet is open. Couple to be seated and served meal.

Couple will mingle from table to table when finished eating

8:15pm Toasts by Best Man, Maid of Honor, Father of Bride & Groom

8:40pm Cake Cutting. Joyful Details will cut cake and distribute to guests

8:45pm First dance

Father/Daughter dance to

Mother/Son dance to “

9:00pm Open dancing and mingling continues

9:30pm Couple goes outside to take “fake exit” shots with photographers

10:00pm Photographers leave for the night

10:30pm Bouquet Toss

11:25pm Last dance is played

11:30pm Couple exits and leaves in their own car

End of reception/clean-up and load out by vendors

7:00 wake up, shower, eat, drive to appt

8:00 hair appt

10:00 make-up - drive to location getting dressed

11:15 - eat lunch - tell Wedding party and parents to be at location to get dressed

11:30 start getting into dress (could take up to 40 min if stubborn button loops)

12:00 Brides shots - combo shots with family & wedding party

1:30 Groom does his combos with family and WP - Bride does touch-ups

2:15 drive to park/beach - pretty outdoor location for photos

2:30 First look photo - bride and groom shots - B&G with Wedding Party

3:30 -set up decorations -touch ups - some altar photos?

4 - 4:30 Ceremony

4:30 - 4:45 - hugs - greet guests - do send off - 5-6 cocktail hr

4:45- 5:15 more picture

5:45 arrive at hall - Bride does Touch ups

6:00 entrance - Welcome - Prayer

6:20 ish start dinner (have Best Man do toasts while salads are being served, or while they are being eaten - no reason to have dinner wait for all the toasts to be over)

6:00 wake up, shower, eat, drive to appt

7:00 hair appt

8:30 make-up - drive to location getting dressed

9:45 - tell Wedding party and parents to be at location to get dressed

10:00 start getting into dress (buttons and getting corset ribbons untwisted takes longer than you think)

10:30 Brides shots - combo shots with family & wedding party

11:45 Groom does his combos with family and WP - Bride does touch-ups *eat a snack

12:30 drive to park - pretty outdoor location for photos

12:45 First look photo - bride and groom shots - B&G with Wedding Party

1:15 drive to chapel

1:30 arrive at chapel - set up decorations -touch ups - alter photos?

2 Ceremony

2:30 - 2:45 - hugs - greet guests - do send off - drive to outdoor location? for pictures

3- 5 more picture

5:30 arrive at hall - Bride does Touch ups

5 - 6 cocktail hr

6:00 entrance - Welcome - Prayer

These are very helpful. I am trying to decide if I am going to get my hair done that day or the day before. Doing my hair is a MAJOR production so I am trying to figure it everything else that I should be talking to my DoC about as we work through this schedule.

Hehhehehe... and sleep standing up! Well, you would know what works best for you.

Good luck!

(and consider the first touch photos if you are not going to do first look. The day is about the 2 of you, try to get as many photos in as you can to remember the day.

LOL! I know right!??! I don't know what I was thinking when we said a 4P wedding. Why we didnt go with 6P I don't know. But yes, we are definitely doing lots of pictures before hand.

We are getting married downtown. The groomsmen will start on one end of the square with FH and BM with me. Then the wedding parties will switch and me and FH will stay put to take pics with the opposite group. Still not seeing each other. That way we will also get some individual pictures done too. Hope it's not too hot or else this plan will go to hell in a hand basket.

@JJ, LOL at last minute pee, love that :-)