Most people will have their wedding reception begin immediately after their wedding. Once the wedding party arrives, everyone will start eating. The entire reception usually lasts about 4 to 5 hours.
This is a sample order of a traditional wedding reception:
Bride and groom arrive
Guests arrive
Cocktail hour
Guests seated at table
Welcoming toast
Food being served
Toasts begin
Cake cutting
First dance
Wedding cake being served
Bar closes
Guests start to leave
Bride and groom start to depart
In some cultures, it is common to wear different outfits for the wedding ceremony and wedding reception. The bride would change into traditional evening wear during the reception. As a professional wedding photographer, I have been to weddings where the bride (who is of Chinese heritage) has changed into several different traditional outfits during the wedding reception.
Still a Wedding reception. However, you can have it a post wedding reception or dinner.
People have wedding cakes to keep the reception traditional. It is believed to have evolved from bread. Some couples choose alternative desserts for their wedding "cake."
A wishing well reception is a reception at which the bride and groom request cash in lieu of gifts. Couples do this in order to recoup wedding costs or when they have already cohabitated prior to the wedding and therefore have no need for the traditional househould item gifts. Guests are expected to bring a card with cash or gift cards inside to drop in the wishing well at the reception.
Please come to the reception of my wedding.
Please come to the reception of my wedding.
A wedding reception director works alongside a wedding planner. The director helps to organize the reception and directs people where they need to go.
Reception = 45% of Budget.
An average wedding in Ghana costs about 150million cedis. The cost of hiring the place for the reception and the food and drinks cost the most.
Well, there are traditional wedding ceremonies. This is usually done based in your own heritage. Then there are non traditional wedding ceremonies which are outside that of what would be considered typical for your heritage. For instance if you are American, a traditional wedding ceremony may be one which involves a church, pastor guests and a reception afterwords. A non-traditional could combine other ethnical type weddings or anything you see fit.
There is no such thing as a totally free wedding ceremony. If the couple get married by the Justice of the Peace there is a fee; if they have a traditional wedding then the bride's parents pay most of the costs and the groom's parents pay less of a cost for that wedding and reception.
Bella and Edward have their wedding reception party and Jacob comes back for the wedding and they also leave fro their honeymoon.