Wedding Reception
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So my question is, in your opinion, do Saturday weddings typically die down before 11pm, or is 11pm a solid time to end? I am having a Saturday wedding, consisting of a 30 minute religious ceremony, 1...
Hey there everybody, our wedding anot until 2023 but I love planninzg.lol. I dont drink much and like fruity drinks what would you recommend? Also how do I do a tasting ?
Hi! FH and I will be married in March. We have everything booked, but thought it would be fun to throw in an alternative form of entertainment for the guests. We do have a DJ & Music. We are both...
Hi! We are very environmentally focused and realized that a good way to narrow down venues would be to only look at places (i.e. hotels, resorts, wedding venues, etc.) that are ALREADY sustainably...
Once you kick off heels at the reception for serious dancing, do you find it easier to barefoot or something else? I cannot dance in flip flops because they don't lift off the ground with the rest of...
Music recommendations? I need a good mix of dancing and chill songs (for those who don’t feel like dancing)
We are already doing the shoe game. However we were thinking about doing another game that the guests could get involved in as well we’ve thought of a word search game, a photo scavenger hunt game....
Well Last Saturday was our big day and while every vender was amazing, I ended our night early and spent the night crying in the bathroom. The weekend started off with my in laws getting mad that my...
So my Fiancé and I want to have a Nature Themed wedding but he’s giving me power over color choice. What would be the best colors for it? Dark Green or Blue many shades? I want to involve Silver in it...
Hi everyone! New to this forum and would love to get your thoughts on this: If you spend the entire cocktail hour greeting/taking photos with guests, will you be interrupted less during your...
I’m having trouble figuring out the signature drink for our wedding. I was curious what everyone had for theirs?
Hello ! I’m really needing help about how much food to get. Our wedding is multicultural. So I want to represent us both in everything, esp the food. There will be both Arabic food and soul food....
Hey! We are 10 days out and my seating chart was pretty much all set numerous times and now with people dropping out last minute and other things I’ve had to rework it. And I’m slowly losing my mind...
Hi! My fiancé and I have 2 cats who we love so much and would love to include them on our wedding day. We are considering signature drinks named after them. I also had another idea that instead of...
I’ll probably have about 80 people at my wedding with 8-10 tables. Is it really that annoying for people to walk around and find their name on a card at their seat? I’m picturing people would already...
Help! My venue isn’t allowing us to move extra tables out of the reception area. I’m needing ideas of what to use them as. Probably going to be 6 extra table... We’re going to set up 2 of the extra...
We're planning a reception of between 200-250 people, and there is a large contingency of non-alcohol drinkers. Anyone got any tips on what bar setup would work best in this situation (i.e. open bar,...
21 days away and we cannot find any favors that we actually like and think our guests would want to take home...... any suggestions that wouldnt break the bank?
This is for anyone who is thinking of doing open seating. So I had my wedding on August 14. We did open seating with 3 reserved tables. We also attended cocktail hour because we got all the pictures...
We have a choice of mashed potatoes and gravy or au gratin potatoes with our prime rib plated option. Which as a guest would you prefer? I am a potato fanatic so I'm having troubles deciding one over...