Do people usually do the toasts before dinner? I haven't been to too many weddings, but the Best Man's toast at mine was after dinner...after dancing had started but before the cake cutting.
I don't remember. I went with that order because I kind of like the idea of getting all the speeches out of the way early. We have a lot of children coming, and I don't want people to be bored or anything. (Crap, I need to work on the seating arrangements, too!)
Hmmm... now I'm thinking about it, maybe we'll do our grand entrance at 5.30 p.m. and dinner can start at six and then the toasts can start at like 6.45? Does that sound like it makes sense? We have to be out of the hall by 11, that's the big thing, so people need to start tearing down at 10.30 or so.
I don't know what to do about a guestbook either? If you were going to make one, what were you going to do?
I'm stumped at the "do I really want names in a book that will just sit in a drawer?" I'm kinda leaning towards the photo mat but I don't want to screw up what the photographer (also a close friend and husband of the MOH) already has planned for photos/albums/etc.
We were planning on dong toasts, I guess mid-to-end-of dinner? So everyone will already have a drink to toast with, and we don't have to worry about forcing them to wait while we finish pictures (evening wedding).
I was going to actually make a book - I've made journals before.
But I had an idea today that I think I like even better!
The guest book is supposed to be all well-wishes and prayers and thoughts from the guests. So I'm going to get a nice wooden box from the dollar store and stain it (I have a nice dark brown stain), and then I'm going to cut up the paper I got to use for the pages of the book (into rectangles, all roughly the same size) and we'll have people write things on the pages and put them in the box. Later (probably around our one-year anniversary), I'll open up the box and go through the pages and put them together into a book we can keep on the bookshelf. And then we'll have a nice box we can use for something else! :)
Yes, I think that's what we're going to end up doing with the toasts - just move them to later on, partway through the dinner.
It will let your MC prepare ahead of time. If you know what you want to happen when, just write it down and give it to your MC and you're done.
I wouldn't have thought of it either, but when I asked my brother, he said he would but asked to get an order of events ahead of time so he could actually be prepared.
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Hmmm... now I'm thinking about it, maybe we'll do our grand entrance at 5.30 p.m. and dinner can start at six and then the toasts can start at like 6.45? Does that sound like it makes sense? We have to be out of the hall by 11, that's the big thing, so people need to start tearing down at 10.30 or so.
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I don't know what to do about a guestbook either? If you were going to make one, what were you going to do?
I'm stumped at the "do I really want names in a book that will just sit in a drawer?" I'm kinda leaning towards the photo mat but I don't want to screw up what the photographer (also a close friend and husband of the MOH) already has planned for photos/albums/etc.
We were planning on dong toasts, I guess mid-to-end-of dinner? So everyone will already have a drink to toast with, and we don't have to worry about forcing them to wait while we finish pictures (evening wedding).
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But I had an idea today that I think I like even better!
The guest book is supposed to be all well-wishes and prayers and thoughts from the guests. So I'm going to get a nice wooden box from the dollar store and stain it (I have a nice dark brown stain), and then I'm going to cut up the paper I got to use for the pages of the book (into rectangles, all roughly the same size) and we'll have people write things on the pages and put them in the box. Later (probably around our one-year anniversary), I'll open up the box and go through the pages and put them together into a book we can keep on the bookshelf. And then we'll have a nice box we can use for something else! :)
Yes, I think that's what we're going to end up doing with the toasts - just move them to later on, partway through the dinner.
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I'm getting married on July 3 too, and it didn't even occur to me that I'd need to do that...
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I wouldn't have thought of it either, but when I asked my brother, he said he would but asked to get an order of events ahead of time so he could actually be prepared.
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