Timing of First Dance

Our first dance came right after being introduced. Then, the dance floor was opened up to everyone. The dances with our parents were later on in the evening. Our DJ took the reins for the timing of everything. We just went with the flow.

Ours will be after we are introduced. Mainly because after that will be dinner and we are having a mariachi band play during dinner but the last 15-10 minutes will be of them playing our father/daughter and mother/son songs. I think toasts will be after all of that and then dance floor will be opened and about an hour later we will be cutting the cake. Our dj was incredible and helped us come up with our schedule!

Our ceremony was at 5, with cocktail hour from 5:30-6:30. introductions at 6:45 Dinner from 6:45 to about 7:40 speeches and table touches from 7:40 to 8, First dance at 8 followed by open dancing, cake cutting at 8:30, more dancing for the rest of the evening. Personally, I'm not a fan of toasts/speeches DURING dinner because the reality is no one is going to be chowing down while someone is talking (it's just awkward) so then you're forced to stop eating and pay attention meanwhile your food is getting cold. As a guest it's considered polite to wait til the cake is cut to leave if you plan on leaving early. So for that reason I would say not to wait too late to do so

We are also doing our first dance right after our big entrance. FH & I take ballroom dancing, and he always hates it at other weddings when we can't dance to the music during dinner (which is when they play all the Foxtrot-style music) because the bride & groom haven't danced yet. So he wanted to do our dance first so that others could dance during dinner if they want to.

First dance after introduction, the rest my dj will help with.

First dance after introduction, but I haven't really figured the rest out yet...

We're skipping the whole big entrance (just not our thing). We're doing speeches split up inbetween courses and first dances after dinner to open up the dance floor (830/9pm- ish)

We will do our entrance and go right into the first dance. From there cake cutting

Speeches will be during dinner.

Entrance and into the first dance. Dinner, speech, cut the cake, greet the tables, father/daughter/mother/son dance then open dance floor.

Thanks for the input everyone!

First dance was right after introductions, speeches were during dinner. cake cutting was at the tail end of dinner because we were running behind.

A lot of people are doing this

Entrance

Toasts

Dinner

Cake Cutting

First Dance

F/D Dance

M/S Dance

Anniversary Dance

Open Dancing for awhile

Bouquet, garter

More Open Dancing

Entrance, first dance, dinner, same day video of the ceremony and pics during dinner, toasts, F/D dance, M/S dance, cake cutting, shoe game, open dance floor the rest of the night.