Build the BEST Wedding Day Timeline

I’ve watched this 5 times and can’t work out the jump from go straight from speeches to first dance, to family dances to open dance floor. When did the rest of the meal get served if the speeches started during the starter? Help lol😂

Uk lady here. I’m getting married in my garden in august. We will be serving canapės and champagne, a full BBQ wedding breakfast lunch. Then a night-time hog roast with alternatives for the plant based guests. So effectively I’m feeding them snacks, lunch and dinner. But the guests will be there from 2pm to midnight and it’s truly a pet peeve of mine when guests have to wait for food or get hungry at your wedding. I want everyone to eat, drink, and be merry 🙂

I'm from Austria and here are a lot of traditions different from America. However, I always find it very interesting to get to know different cultures. For example we don't have bridemaids and groomsmen. But in my area we have a "bridemaid" and a "groomsman" who "are dancing through" the whole wedding party (ballroom dance). I really like to watch your videos for inspiration. My sister suggested – because we have a civil wedding and after that a wedding ceremony in the church – to have the cake cutting inbetween. People get something to eat and it's a little bit like english tea time because we also serve little sandwiches etc. When we tell people about it, they love it. We hope it will turn out nice. At my parents wedding they also had some afternoon snacks because Austrian weddings usually take about 24 hours 😂 (because of some other traditions)

Summary
-Hair and makeup 5-7 hours before the wedding depending on the size of the bridal party, etc…

-First look about 1-2 hour before wedding

-If no first look put dress on between 1 hour-30 min from ceremony for pictures with bridesmaids and detailed pictures of dress + travel time

-Entire bridal party on sit ready to go, hidden, 30 minutes before ceremony starts

-10 minutes before ceremony starts lineup family and bridal party

-Ceremony between 15 min-30 min

-Cocktail hour for all the guests while family and bride and groom take pictures in ceremony area

15 minutes before reception actually starts begin to usher people into the reception space

10 minutes before reception starts the bride and groom begin to get ready for the grand entrance (can be with full bridal party or just bride and groom)

-Either grand entrance right into first dance or grand entrance straight into dinner

-Dinner about 45-1:30

-toasts after everyone has received their dinner (about 5-10 min after last person got their food)

-Recommends no more than 5 toasts (tell people who are going to do toast 2-3 min but plan for them to take 5 min) Ex. 4 toasts = 20 minutes

-If first dance wasn't before now is an opportunity

-Perfunctory family dances (father/daughter, mother/son, etc…) (give 2 min but plan for 5 min)

-Open dancing (45 min-1 hour)

-Cake cutting (about 5 min)

-Bouquet toss (about 5 min)

-Garter toss (about 5 min)

-Put cake cutting at the beginning of the reception (ex. after speeches) if you’re not doing bouquet, garter, etc.. to not take attention or groove out of the dancing

-Last call 15-30 min before end

-10 minutes before end, guests line up for grand exit

But my family is latino and always late so I am putting 30 minutes earlier LOL

How far out from the Wedding should I create this timeline??

We generally do the cake cutting right after the ceremony before going for the photos and the canapés are served. 🇿🇦😊

So what about the wedding ceremony timeline? Like when do we do unity ceremony… when is the kiss… when is the charge to the couple… etc.?

Jamie my family be on CP time so I might have to fabricate the start time 😂😂

The different timelines you need is crazy. I think i have 5 different types based on each vendor. Food is completely different from media which is wholly different from the venue coordinator timeline. I dont knoe about my floral timeline or my dj timeline.

My wedding is in August and im NERVOUS.

Love this so much information!!

I’m also planning my own wedding and find your video to be incredibly helpful! Thanks so much for breaking down the timeline and explaining your rationale behind the amount of time you budget for each segment / the suggested order. Now I have a better idea how to budget time for my timeline 🙂

I HAVE A QUESTION…HAVE U EVER DONE A VOW RENEWAL CEREMONY VIDEO? IM NEEDING SOME ADVICE ON CERTAIN THINGS…BTW,IM NOT YELLING.. IALWAYS USE CAPS..HEE HEE

I've learnt soooo much from you in these last few hours ☺️☺️☺️😂😂😂 You're amazing!!!!

I love your time line in regard to photos. The photographer for my daughters wedding showed up about 2 hours late and that meant almost no photos before the ceremony and it felt like a very long wait between the ceremony and the reception. We had given him a list of the photos we wanted and the one I wanted the most was the photo between me and my daughter and he never took that one. I bawled when we got the proofs back and I mean bawled.

Love from the UK 🇬🇧

I’m from Jamaica 🇯🇲 soon to be married.

This is sooooooo incredibly helpful!!!!!! My wedding is in 25 days and you are literally a lifesaver. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!

When would be a good time to do games?

Hey ! so I am planning my wedding in 4 months, just started so not many time ahead, but I wanted to share that in my culture, Argentinian, during the dancing party time, we also have props too take pictures, silly hats and stuff like that, maybe some neon or led stuff, to make everything more fun and silly

You literally keep me sane during this period of complete stress lol

My sister and her husband
Had their ceremony start @5 and we come from a Hispanic family so a lot of us just show up late for everything in general
So many of our family 20 plus members had to wait outside until after the ceremony 🙁
They weren’t even that late just 5-10min
We didn’t know they were so punctual

no "grande exit" in austria, usually the bridal couple party the longest and leaves last!