Discussions from Wedding Reception

Hi all! My husband and I got married in April and threw an 80-person ceremony and reception which went great! We’re having a reception in July with about 110 guests who were not invited to the one...

I am thinking of having an ice cream sundae bar!! When is the best time to open this? We will have cake and serve that toward the end of dinner…maybe the last hour is best for the ice cream?

Has anybody tried self-catering and hired wait staff for their wedding? How was your experience? Who did you hire? We're in the early stages of planning and a few of the venues we're looking at will...

I’m having major anxiety about the seating chart, we’ll have about 60-65 people. I can’t seem to figure out if I should hand write or order something off of Etsy! If you did hand write, what should I...

We've decided to have a quick courthouse wedding and take our family to dinner afterwards instead of doing the whole shebang. We're hoping to be able to take a big honeymoon trip. We're thinking...

Hi, how many songs do you need per hour? What are your top 5 super fun dance songs?

I set up a tentative seating chart so I could visualize where to place family since my fiancé has a lot of siblings, nieces, nephews ext. When I showed it to my mom I had at the head table my fiancé...

Hey everyone, I was just wondering how many different appetizer options are typical for 200 guests. I am only in this dilemma, because when I attend weddings, I am starving during cocktail hour. But I...

Looking for different music choices for songs when the bride and groom are announced. I looked in the website and it’s all the same music that EVERYONE has done at a wedding…. I will take any and all...

Hi! I know having chains cater weddings isn't for everyone but I've been thinking about having multiple chains cater my wedding. Like Olive Garden, Portillos, etc. just all of our favorites. I think...

Someone recently told me in a Facebook wedding group that nobody does head tables anymore for their wedding party. Am I just behind the times or is that not true? I don’t go to a lot of weddings, but...

Ok, so my fiance and I were going through our wedding binder last night, just making sure we are still onboard with all our plans/decisions since having to postpone. When I skipped past the cake...

Hey I could use some feedback on the typical order of events that happen on your wedding. I'm having a small DIY wedding so we have no DJ but premade music lists for after the...

My fiancé and I are at impasse over dinner choices for our reception. They offer a duet plate (in which we’d pick salmon and filet mignon) and two veg options for a plated dinner. For buffet they...

For brides who've done an outdoor wedding, what was your layout like? I want to do seating under a tent for shade, but I imagined having my dancefloor in the open air not under a tent. Curious to know...

Hey WW, So I want to stay in my wedding dress for the entire reception except the father daughter dance....my dad and I were both professional dancers and he’s choreographing a minute dance for our...