{"id":32292,"date":"2014-01-07T03:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/wedding-reception-order-of-service\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:16:45","slug":"wedding-reception-order-of-service","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/wedding-reception-order-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding reception &#8211; order of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><a title=\"wedding reception venues\" href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/WeddingVenues\/\">Wedding receptions<\/a> tend to follow a similar pattern, including a number of wedding rituals and traditions. Whether you are having a formal or informal reception, this should help you plan your order of affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">The order of service:<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>The guests are served canapes and drinks, as they gather at the reception.<\/li>\n<li>As the bride, groom and bridal party arrive at the reception they are served or canapes and drinks separately while the guests are seated.<\/li>\n<li>The bridal party enter the reception and are announced to the guests. The bride and groom should be the last seated.<\/li>\n<li>Entree and Main courses are served.<\/li>\n<li>Toasts are given.<\/li>\n<li>Telegrams are read aloud by the best man.<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"shop wedding cakes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/shop\/category\/wedding-cakes\/\">cake<\/a> is cut by the bride and groom.<\/li>\n<li>The bridal waltz is preformed by the bride and groom.<\/li>\n<li>The parents and bridal party then join the bride and groom on the dance floor.<\/li>\n<li>After this all other guests are welcome to join the dancing.<\/li>\n<li>Dessert is served.<\/li>\n<li>Bride throws her bouquet.<\/li>\n<li>The bride and groom change into their traveling clothes (optional).<\/li>\n<li>The bride and groom return to the reception to say their finale goodbyes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5431\" alt=\"first dance\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/28180913\/494384587.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Seating Positions (left to right): Groomsmen, Best man, Groom, Bride, Maid of honour, Bridesmaids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2328,"template":"","au_article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-32292","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-weddingvenues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/32292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/32292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=32292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}