Master Ceremonies Wedding
My friend asked me to be the Master Of Ceremony for her wedding, I need your help.?
I need an outline for how the program should be organized? The wedding will be on Sat.
Why are you two waiting so late in the game to get this worked out? She should have been working with you since she started planning. She should have let you know how she wants the day to progress.
The order should be as follows:
Ceremony-
1. Prelude music should be playing in the background as ushers (if there are any) seat the guests. If there are no ushers, then the guests should seat themselves.
2. The mothers and grooms father should be escorted to their seats by the groom and groomsmen.
3. The officiant preforming the service should arrive at the alter (or whatever)
4. The groom and his attendants should be lined up if not escorting bridesmaids.
5. Attendants enter and walk down the isle.
6. Flower girls and ring bearers enter.
7. Bride enters escorted by her father.
8. Then the officiant preforms the ceremony.
9. The bride and groom leave followed in reverse order by the attendants and parents.
10. The guests leave.
Reception-
1. The wedding party stands in a recieving line to greet and thank their guests.
2. The guest should enter the reception site after the greetings and the party should follow after they have talked to everybody that came to the line.
3. Dinner is served (if applicable)
4. Toasts are presented by the best man and maid of honor.
5. The bride and groom cut the cake.
6. The bride and groom have their first dance.
7. The father-daughter dance (bride)
8. The mother-son dance (groom)
(some people choose to have their spouse dance with the other parent duign these dances i.e. during the father-daughter, the groom dances with the bride’s mother, during the mother-son dance the bride dances with the groom’s father. I’ve also seen the opposite parent dances as one seperate dance after the mother-son)
10. Time for the rest of the guests to join the floor and party the night away.
11. Throwing of the bouquet.
12. Throwing of the garter.
13. The man who caught the garter and the woman who caught the bouquet should have a dance togeather near the end of the night.
14. The last dance, bride and groom start it off, then others join in.
15. The bride and groom leave in their “honemoon” car, usualy decorated by the groomsmen.
16. The guests leave.
17. All of the attendants should make sure that the site is taken care of for cleaning, parents should insure final bills are paid, and anything else that might need to be taken care of.
18. Vendors go home.
19. Attendants and parents go home.
For a song list if you are DJ, you would have to get that from the bride. She should be the one picking songs with assistance from the groom.
Dale Beaumont Wedding Master Of Ceremonies