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Kelli
Master September 2015

When are you doing toast, cutting cake, throwing bouquet?

Kelli, on August 12, 2015 at 1:01 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 6

I am trying to figure out when to schedule these. Ceremony is at 6:30, followed by cocktails and appetizers, then buffet dinner at 7:30 pm. It is a small venue, 6 guest tables, dinner and cake in same room. So everyone should be able to see the cake cutting without getting up.

My FH wants to do a thank you toast to our guests. Should it be before everyone goes to the buffet?

When is the cake cutting? Is it when everyone is done eating? Or just towards the end of eating?

When is the bouquet toss? We aren't having a DJ or dancing. Just music and cocktails after dinner. So do we do it after everyone is finished eating cake?

Thanks everyone! Wedding is ONE MONTH from today so just trying to iron out details at this point!

6 Comments

Latest activity by Donna, on August 21, 2018 at 8:48 PM
  • Jeanne
    Master August 2015
    Jeanne ·
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    I would do toasts after the last table has returned from the buffet. Everyone will be back in their seats and full and wiling to listen. We are doing the cake cutting after dinner and bouquet/garter toss later in the night. Since you aren't doing dancing, you could do the bouquet toss as a sort of final thing at the end of the night?

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  • Nattie
    Super October 2015
    Nattie ·
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    Toasts are usually towards the beginning of the evening, so either before they get up for the buffet or when everyone is seated and eating. We are doing family style, so we will do them during the salad course.

    Cake cutting we are doing right after we eat the entree, so that the staff can pass out the cake for dessert

    bouquet toss usually during the dancing. Sometime into the music is when I would do it, but whenever after dinner would work

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  • Jennifer
    VIP December 2015
    Jennifer ·
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    We are doing our dance after our entrance, then dinner at 6, toasts while everyone is eating. At 7 Mother/Son dance, Father/Daughter Dance, Anniversary dance, cake cutting (so older people can go home if they want). After that open dancing for a little bit so people can have a few drinks, then bouquet toss, garter toss, last dance then exit. It's whatever you want though but I hope that helps.

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  • Kelli
    Master September 2015
    Kelli ·
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    Thanks for the replies! Now that I think about it, we do need to get the glasses distributed and the champagne poured so maybe the toast is best done after people have started eating.

    And I will plan on cake cutting after everyone is finished eating.

    I hadn't planned on doing a bouquet toss until my daughter (MOH) and her friend were both so disappointed LOL. So I will be throwing the bouquet to all the single twenty-something ladies Smiley smile

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  • Rebecca
    VIP June 2015
    Rebecca ·
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    We let everyone get their food, and then did the speeches while they ate.

    The cake cutting we nearly forgot about - we didn't call everyone over to watch, we just snuck away and did it quietly with the photographer, but you need to do that not too long after people finish eating, IMO, because it takes the caterer a while to cut the cake and plate it and serve it - even if it's 30 people, it's going to be 20-30 min between when you cut and they serve.

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  • D
    Just Said Yes September 2018
    Donna ·
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    We are having anoutdoor wedding.. what order does everything take place ? The toast , 👰 bride and groom dance, cake cutting, garter, bouquet toss.Donna Macknight
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