Sample Wedding Itinerary: Make Your Wedding Day Timeline / Schedule
Here's a sample wedding itinerary -- also called a wedding day timeline or wedding day schedule -- for you to use as a template when you make your own itinerary. The following schedule is for a 6 pm wedding. Adjust your own wedding timeline accordingly.
Make sure you put arrival and departure times for everyone, including vendors, into your timeline.
Also time how long it takes to get from one location to another and adjust when you rewrite the sample wedding itinerary.
For safety, pad the time it takes to travel and to finish tasks like hair, photos and decorating.
9:10pm Father Daughter dance, groom dances with mother, followed by a short dance set
9:40pm The cake cutting ceremony, followed by dancing
9:55pm The bouquet toss, followed by the garter toss, then more dancing
10:30pm Music winds down, bars start to close
11:00pm Reception ends, guests gather out front for the send off
11:10pm Newlyweds leave the reception
11:20pm Newlyweds arrive at wedding night hotel
Your wedding day timeline will not look like anyone else's, or have the exact same timing.
Work with your vendor on the timing for dinner (especially sit down dinners, which take more time), dancing, and traditional events like the cutting of the cake.
No two bride's will have the same wedding day schedule. Copy and paste the above sample wedding itinerary into a text document and adjust it to suit yourself.
Don’t forget to give your wedding day itinerary /timeline to all your vendors and wedding day participants!
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