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Reception exit?

Shelly, on August 9, 2019 at 6:40 PM Posted in Wedding Reception 0 8

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Is this something most people do? I see lots of photos with couples doing a sparkler exit and it def is a cute photo op. I just think that it would take time for everyone to get outside and get ready for the photo that it would take away from the party... my coordinator asked what we had in mind for the exit and I haven't even thought about it. Is it weird to just have people leave lol or is the bride and groom exit a big deal? What are y'all doing? My ceremony and reception is at the same venue and it is planned to end at 10:30pm. I'm already worried with a 6:30pm reception start time that I won't have enough time to fit in all the stuff I want to do!

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Latest activity by Catherine, on August 11, 2019 at 8:36 AM

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Kelly · on August 9, 2019 at 6:43 PM
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For us it was the most efficient way to get everyone out of the venue on time and on the busses back to hotels. We started getting people out and lining them up 5 or 10 minutes before we had to be out of our venue so I don’t feel like we really missed any time.
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Mary · on August 9, 2019 at 6:51 PM
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Our reception ended at 11.30pm and we didn't have a send-off. When discussing this with our coordinator, she did mention that if we wanted to do one, it would need to be around 9pm while most our guests were still present. This would (supposedly) be a little disruptive to move everyone off the dance floor and then back on afterwards. I like the idea of sparklers but, seeing as our venue doesn't allow them, we skipped Italian send-off all together!
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Mary · on August 9, 2019 at 6:52 PM
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^ Not sure how autocorrect got "Italian" from "the". 😒
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January 2019
MOB So Cal · on August 9, 2019 at 7:06 PM
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Daughter & SIL didn't want to miss a second of their reception, so they skipped the "exit." Instead, the DJ played a "last dance," which turned into 3 last dances because the dance floor was packed and no one wanted to quit. Then, everybody took their time saying good-bye (there is a precious photo of daughter and her maid- and matron-of-honor all in a group hug...). Daughter and SIL were the last ones in the venue and the photographer got some amazing photos of the two of them alone in the empty reception space. The banquet captain told daughter in 20 years at the venue, he'd never seen anything like the end of their wedding and he thought it was amazing....
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Melle · on August 9, 2019 at 7:08 PM
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We had that for ceremony as we walked down the aisle but that was really just for a photo op. But for the end of reception everyone just left aha
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Yam · on August 9, 2019 at 7:37 PM
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We’re just thanking people for coming individually after we serve the cake, they can eat or hang out and dance. I’d rather they leave whenever they want to so a send off wouldn’t work for us.
However I love paper lantern send offs, it looks like the scene from Tangled.
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Carol · on August 10, 2019 at 11:22 PM
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We set our reception to end at 8:30, so about that time we'll have the dj make an announcement then my FH and I will stand by the door and say goodbye to whoever is left. Once the guests are gone, we're having a last dance just for us, with the photographer and videographer capturing it for us.
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May 2021
Catherine · on August 11, 2019 at 8:36 AM
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I think we are doing a conga line out the door to the bar
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