Wedding Day Timeline

As our date approaches, I am starting to work out some of the little details for our wedding day. One of those little details was inspired by a post on one of my favorite wedding blogs, Weddingbee. One of the brides posted an adorable wedding timeline that I recreated for our wedding day. This timeline is not the same as the timeline for the Bridal Party. That one will have many more times and places that people need to be. The purpose of this timeline is to let guests know what is coming next on our wedding day.

Guests for the most part know that the wedding starts at 7:30pm Saturday and the reception follows directly after. The wedding day activities like the cake cutting and the first dance might not happen exactly on schedule, but are fun to have on the timeline. The activities that guests might not know about include cocktails in the lobby bar on Friday night @8pm and the trolley pick up times the day of the wedding. This seems like a really fun way to let guests know about those two things, especially.

I had a few other items that I thought about listing on the timeline. The rehearsal dinner on Friday evening, but that doesn’t apply to all of our guests. The last trolley stop on our wedding night at 1am, but we know who will need to be informed of this little tid (mostly members of the wedding party). We are also having breakfast at the hotel restaurant Sunday morning, but we aren’t planning a “Farewell Brunch”. We plan to have breakfast around 9:30-10:00am on Sunday and will be available to meet with guests who are staying overnight. Two reasons I don’t want to include this on the timeline is 1) we might sleep in and miss this and 2) I don’t want people to think we are providing a breakfast (we just didn’t have it in the budget.)

I think we have a good number of items on our timeline and we will have to find another way to communicate the extras to our guests who need to know.

Here is the timeline I modeled my creation from: