OK, so I'm almost a month away from my small ~35 person wedding, and trying to put together a timeline for our photographer. It's harder than I thought!
I am mostly stuck on when we should expect to do the first dance, etc. I feel like with a small wedding it would feel silly to be "announced" when we enter the reception, since we will probably show up around the same time as most of our guests anyway and we wanted to be there for most of the cocktail hour... so that means the start of the reception won't really have a natural kickoff to the dances like a trad. reception would.
What do you guys think about this idea:
4:30-5:30 cocktails & appetizers
5:30/5:45ish dinner buffet put out, guests find their seats
6:30ish maid of honor toast, any other toasts (not sure who else might want to speak!). after her toast, maybe she could call us up to the dance floor for our dance? (we are using an iPod)
6:40ish first dance followed by parent dances
6:55ish back to drinking & dancing!
