Tell me about your afternoon wedding and reception!

9:30 Hair/makeup

10:00 Photographer arrived

10:00 coordinator and helpers started final set-up at venue

10-12 -Bevmo delivered alcohol to venue

12:20 bride and bridesmaids arrived at venue (originally planned to arrive at 11:20!!)

1:00 Ceremony official start time

1:10 actual ceremony start time

2:15 Ceremony end time, Cocktail hour start time, pro photos in front of church (religious ceremony)

3:15 Guests prompted to find their seats in hall, bride and groom grand entrance with Mariachi Band playing

-food served shortly after

-We ate first and then started doing our table visits. We got half way through the tables when our MC announced the toasts, so we sat down for the toasts. After that we did our final table visits

4:30- First dance, decided to break off towards end of song and grab our parents for a combined son/mother father/daughter dance.

5:00 ish bouquet toss with cake cutting shortly after

6:30 grand exit.

-I made a detailed timeline but gave some leeway to the gal I hired to MC to make adjustments to the timeline. The day of I let go of worrying about the timeline and flow and just enjoyed it, so I'm not sure what time things actually happened but I do know that we did do our grand exit at around 6:30. We had a blast at our wedding. All the planning and organizing paid off because things went pretty smoothly and our guests told us that they had a great time.

We are having an 11 am ceremony and 12-4 brunch reception (same venue). We will have an open bar (wine, beer, brunch drinks) and a DJ so I'm really hoping people will dance and enjoy themselves. Since we won't be having a cocktail hour, FH and I will do a first look starting about an hour and a half before the ceremony. We will also try to get as many family and bridal party portraits done before the ceremony as possible. I don't know exactly what time we will start hair and makeup yet, but I'm sure it will be at the asscrack of dawn. Lol.

You're having a Saturday wedding. That's a plus. The ceremony begins at 12:30, and it will be finished by 1:00. Good. People will have already caught the eyes of those they wish to socialize with, and those people will be ready to grab a cocktail (or three) at 1:00 PM. During that hour, you'll be having your wedding photos taken. Around 2:00 PM, everyone will be finding their seats in the reception area, and shortly after that, you'll be introduced. You'll have your three spotlight dances (bride/groom, bride/father, groom/mother). The meal will then be served (or the buffet will open) and dinner plates will probably be cleared around 3:15 PM. Then, the bar will reopen and an hour/hour and a half of dancing will start. Everyone will be having fun when it's time to cut and pass the cake. The bar will likely close at this point as coffee/tea will be served. Your guests will say their goodbyes after coffee/cake (or you decide to leave before everyone else), and the event finishes. Sounds good to me (although I'd probably skip the cocktail hour, do the bridal pics before the ceremony, and enjoy an extra hour at the reception).

Thanks for the feedback!

We had a noon ceremony. Here was our timeline:

8:45 AM We, maid of honor, and dude of honor leave accommodations.

9:45 AM Pick up challah (bread for the hamotzi, or blessing over bread).

10:00 AM Arrive at synagogue; meet hair and make-up person; flowers to be delivered. We begin getting ready, with each of us getting hair and make-up in turn while the other focused on decorating the synagogue.

11:00 AM Photographer arrives.

12:00 PM Ceremony starts.

12:30 PM Ceremony ends; hamotzi outside of synagogue.

12:45 PM Formal photos outside of synagogue.

1:45 PM Leave synagogue.

2:00 PM Arrive at restaurant for luncheon reception.

4:30 PM Leave restaurant.

I am going to follow this because my ceremony is from 1130-12 with cocktail hour from 1-2 amd reception from 2-5 and I am still trying to figure out a timeline!

Our ceremony was at 1pm (but the reception didn't start until 5) so our morning went:

-6am: wake up

-6:30am: leave for 20 minute drive (40 roundtrip) to pick up OOT BM at a hotel

-7:30am: Return to moms where hair and make up would be

-7:45am: breakfast

-8:30am: hair and make arrival/begin (2 for 3 BMs, bride and MOB)

-9:00am: Photog arrival

-11:00am remaining BMs to arrive

-11:00am bride dress

-11:00am to 12:15: bridesmaids/bridal photos

-12:15pm: leave for church

-12:25pm: Church arrival

-12:30-12:50pm: Photos in church bridal room/be anxious and excited

-1:00pm: get married!

We had a second shooter that met up with the guys around 10:30am or so, I'm not sure what kind of photos they got together as I don't have my pro pix back yet. We did all the family and bridal party formals at the church after the ceremony and after went to a park to do more fun and casual ones.

Our ceremony is at 11:30 am with the reception from 12-4. We're starting hair/makeup at 8, hopefully ready for some pictures by 10/10:30. We want to get as many pictures done before the ceremony as possible, and since we have two photographers I think we can get most of the separate ones done even without doing a first look.

11:30 ceremony

12:00-12:30 cocktail hour (it will be danishes and coffee/tea/juice and sangria. The bar will probably be open too.)

12:30-4 is the brunch reception with dj and dancing and open bar. I don't have a timeline for this portion yet. The brunch is a buffet.

I'm having one too, and this is helpful to see what others are doing.

We're not really having "dancing" but there will be music if people want to dance. We'll be ending our reception with a round of disc golf at the park (I need pictures of me running around in my dress and petticoat!!!)