Discussions from Wedding Reception

What did you guys do to make people want to stay at the reception? I have a lot of family known for eating and running soon after that I, scared this will trigger the whole crowd to do it too. What...

My fiancé and I can’t figure out a song to use for our first dance. We have 2 different tastes in music. I want something slow and sappy he wants something upbeat with a R&B or hip hop feel. I...

My wedding is finally approaching faster than I can imagine!! A nearly two-year engagement, and it will finally be happening next month. So anyway, finally getting to all the last-minute details. Are...

Our sparkler send off is at 9:30, does anyone have an idea of what time we should have people sent outside to start lining up? Our guest count is 80 so I'm guessing we will have anywhere from 65-70...

Hi guys, We're offering late night flatbreads at our wedding -- a few different types, which will come out around 10PM. I wanted to include it on our printed wedding menus so everyone knows they're...

Hello everyone! For my wedding, I’m planning on having a multitude of different different drinks available. We are going to have beer, seltzer’s, truly lemonades, pop, water, lemonade, coffee, and hot...

We are hosting our wedding I heard back from 98% of guest list. The 2% that we haven’t heard from we are confident are not coming (curtesy invites for my parents friends) Do I add an extra table just...

Our reception venue is catering our wedding and thankfully is able to accommodate a number of dietary requirements (vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, lactose free etc) without us needing to change the...

Since my wedding venue is my parent's backyard, I want everyone to be able to leave and drive to a hotel that's 15 minutes away (the closest one) and NOT be piss drunk, so the only hard liquor would...

Hi everyone, so I’m at lost for words. I feel like only brides can understand the true stress of a wedding. I never knew how stressful this could be. I understand how a bridezilla was made now. Our...

Hi Wedding Wire Community! I need your help. My dad and I would like to do a fun song for our dance together, rather than something traditional. I could really use some ideas! Ideally, it would be a...

We are having a live musician (sings, plays guitar) who also has a dj set-up to play any recorded music that is not part of his typical performance. That said, I need to make a list of all the songs I...

Hello! My fiance and I are very recently engaged, and so we have not really started any REAL planning, just sort of loosely talking about what we want- we have not set a date or anything. Neither one...

So I decided to do a mashed potato bar. I want to incorporate it in the dinner. Has anyone done this?? what did the other parts of your dinner look like? talk to me! right now the venue is offering 2...

My fiance and I are considering a small wedding down at the beach, followed by a big low country boil with our closest friends and family. All in all, we have three vegans that will most likely be...

Everything was fine with the timeline of the day until we got to our venue and as soon as our start time of 7 PM hits, I saw the line of guests form waiting to greet us and I had a moment of panic. We...