Wedding Planning Timeline

Cape Cod Wedding General Flow of Events for your Ceremony & Reception

Feel free to modify this order to suit your own preference.

1. Guests arrive and are seated for wedding ceremony
2. Wedding ceremony
3. Wedding Reception begins with a Cocktail Hour
4. Arrival of your guests at Reception site
5. Introduction of the Bride & Groom (usually into their first dance)
6. Bride and Groom’s First Dance
7. Toast
8. Blessing
9. Dinner
10. Cake Cutting
11. Special Parent dance (Bride and her Father)
12. 2nd Special dance (optional) Groom and his Mother
13. Invite everyone to begin dancing (Dance floor officially opens)
14. Dancing usually starts with slower songs, then the tempo builds
15. Last Dance (farewell song) Let the DJ know if you want guests to make a circle around bride and groom.
16. Tom Tuttle Wedding Planner Sheets (3 Pages – pdf). Print out and use to organize and outline the flow of your reception.