Reception Entrance

From most weddings I've seen and been to it is just the wedding party, bride and groom. You pick the music you want the wedding party to walk into, they usually walk in sets and then it is the couple that walks in to their own music. After that some go straight into the first dance or some do the grand entrance and go straight to dinner. I don't know if you ever seen the show Four Wedding but that might help by seeing some different ways they walk in. Or you can go on YouTube and look up wedding videos.

I’ve been in weddings where we (the bridal party) had an entrance and weddings where we didn’t. I preferred the ones where the bridal party just stood and came to the side of the dance floor as the bride and groom made their entrance, so we may do that. You can do whatever you want 😁

We had a small wedding party (2 bridesmaid & 2 groomsmen). We had them enter before us. We then went straight into our first dance. My husband wanted to get it out of the way. I’ve see it done after dinner though too.
You can do the entrance and your dance how ever you want.

There is definitely no hard and fast rule to this in the U.S. I’ve been to/in weddings that had grand entrances and others that had no official entrances at all. Some announce the bridal party, some only announced the bride and groom. I’ve also been to a wedding where the bride and groom weren’t even announced- they simply joined the end of cocktail hour discreetly and began mingling with guests. The same goes for your first dance – there is no rule to this. I’ve been to/in weddings that have done the first dance immediately upon entrance, some that did them after dinner, and others skipped spotlight dances altogether. So definitely feel free to do or skip whatever items you wish, and to schedule them where they work best for you in the evening – there is no right or wrong way to do it

This is entirely up to you! Usually if you want a more "party heavy" vibe, you'll do an entrance with the entire bridal party. Parents/family typically aren't included in that and you usually do the entrance in whatever order the party processed in. If you're wanting a more casual atmosphere, you typically skip the party's grand entrance and do just the couple, or skip a grand entrance all together.

Hi ! I'm in France too, and that's the way it is... big entrance AFTER the cocktail, then just eating and games, THEN the first dance, no eating, just dancing