Don’t Rush Your Wedding Itinerary
This day and age there are a lot of variations with wedding itineraries. The variations that exist, are due to the differences in a traditional and a modern wedding itinerary. One of the best ways to keep your guests entertained, is to have a spaced out itinerary. What is a spaced out itinerary? A spaced out itinerary is an order of events that has some open dancing (for breaks) in-between each of your events. This makes sure that your guests are entertained and aren’t feeling rushed. There are some traditional Wedding professionals who might disagree with this itinerary, but there are some key factors that will explain why this truly is the best way to coordinate a Wedding itinerary.
An example of an itinerary that is rushed, would be to walk into the reception area and go into a first dance, a toast, dinner, cake cutting and then the special event dances in a back to back sort of fashion. This basically tells your guests that after about an hour in, they have seen everything there is to see and that they can go home early. This is an easy thing to fix by simply spacing out the events with some open dancing so don’t fear. If you have hired a professional DJ that isn’t too experienced with running an itinerary you can easily coordinate one for them in this fashion to ensure the overall success of your wedding reception.
A wedding reception that doesn’t have it’s guests stay and have a good time, is basically an overpriced dinner party. If you want a successful reception, then you are going to want to do everything in your power to make sure that your guests stay and have a good time. You can start by taking control of the dance floor. You do this by spacing out the events with some open dancing, so when the DJ announces the next event your guests came off of the dance floor because they were asked too, rather than because they were bored of dancing. Open dancing between the special event dances is the easy solution to space out your wedding itinerary and keeping your guests involved and entertained.
Open dancing between each of your events ensures that the guests are entertained by not only being involved in each of the events but also spectating some of the events in a nice spaced out manner. You can move through the rest of the night just like this, for example after the father/daughter dance, you can move into the honeymoon dance followed by some more open dancing and then into the bouquet and garter toss, with more open dancing until the last dance. This cushion you provide also helps with the logistics of each event, so you can make sure that everyone is in the right place and ready for the next event before it is announced. The most important part about spacing an itinerary out, is to get your guests involved.
Remember that the key to having a successful wedding reception is to entertain your guests. Keeping them at your reception isn’t always a difficult task if you have spent proper time planning you wedding and itinerary. While some say it’s the entertainment that makes or breaks the wedding, it’s more the itinerary that can truly affect the outcome of your wedding.
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