help with wedding day timeline

[jessie3315]

I'm hoping someone has some advice for me here. We are going away to get married...we live in Regina, Saskatchewan and are getting married in Waterton, Alberta, so it's about 8 hours or so away. We are only taking our wedding party and immediate family so there will only be about 25 of us there. We are trying to figure out what to do the day of the wedding.....all we are doing is having the ceremony and then we will all have dinner together. So my question is...what do we do for the rest of the day??? What time should we have the ceremony? Do we want lots of time before? Or after? I guess I'm concerned we will be sitting around waiting and people will be bored.

Please help!! :confused:

[Chi06Wed]

are there touristy things to do there, have you been there before? how long will you be there? just for the day or the weekend?

ceremony lasts 30min to 1 hr. i'd probably have it 2pm-4pm. i think it depends on how you are with traditions, if you don't want to see the groom before, i'd do it earlier. that gives you guys more time together afterwards.

[jessie3315]

We haven't been there before, no. I'm sure there might be touristy stuff because it's kind of a little resort town. That's a good idea.

We don't want to see each other before the ceremony, but then with what to do we became concerned that might not work.

[dms1981]

Well are the girls going to be getting there hair and makeup done or is everything going to be very simple is that is the case maybe you can have your ceremony around 12-2 and then it won't be most the day that you guys won't see each other and then afterwards take some pictures and then maybe hit some of the major points that are around that you guys want to check out, before heading to dinner

[jessie3315]

Well are the girls going to be getting there hair and makeup done or is everything going to be very simple is that is the case maybe you can have your ceremony around 12-2 and then it won't be most the day that you guys won't see each other and then afterwards take some pictures and then maybe hit some of the major points that are around that you guys want to check out, before heading to dinner

No I think everything is going to be pretty simple, I think we're just doing our own hair and makeup. So I think earlier in the day would be best, like what you said, between 12 and 2. I like your ideas, I will have to give that some thought. I guess I'm just concerned people won't be entertained enough, that we will have dinner and that will be it. Since it's such a small group, and we're not doing anything formal, we're concerned about what to do after dinner. We don't want to end the night right after dinner.

[bjandamanda]

I scanned and posted this on LJ a couple months ago; it's the sample timeline that came in my wedding planner.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b56/myjulywedding/itinerary.gif

[jessie3315]

Thanks...that's sort of helpful, but I would say we're only doing about 25% of those things, so it's a bit more complicated than what I'm looking for. I appreciate your help though :)

[SpicedSugar]

We had a very simple chapel ceremony with about 45 people there. It was at 2 p.m. and directly afterwards we did the photos in the chapel then had a luncheon. After the luncheon we sat and chitchatted with all the guests. It was a very relaxing and casual affair. We never got away from the chapel until around 5:30 so all in all for it being as simple as it was we had fun. LOL, not like the full blown out affair we will be having in Aug. that all of our family will be invited to roughly 200 people. Wish you luck on deciding what you would like.

[jessie3315]

We had a very simple chapel ceremony with about 45 people there. It was at 2 p.m. and directly afterwards we did the photos in the chapel then had a luncheon. After the luncheon we sat and chitchatted with all the guests. It was a very relaxing and casual affair. We never got away from the chapel until around 5:30 so all in all for it being as simple as it was we had fun. LOL, not like the full blown out affair we will be having in Aug. that all of our family will be invited to roughly 200 people. Wish you luck on deciding what you would like.
Something like that might work, except that I know for sure we are having dinner. But we can always do our pictures and things, just sit around until maybe 5 or so, have dinner, and then FH and I can take off, and everyone else can do whatever. We're all staying at the same hotel as where the wedding and dinner are at, so we were thinking it might be just weird for us to go up to the room and everyone else still to be in the restaurant, but I just had a brain wave and I want to look and see if maybe they have a horse-drawn carriage or something like that....that would be a GREAT surprise for FH.

Enough rambling....thanks, ladies :)

[SpicedSugar]

You are very welcome. I hope something similar to what we had will work for you. We would have done something else also but the chapel we used is kinda out of town and we were beginning to get a pretty good snow storm beginning so we thought it was just as easy to stay put until we really needed to leave.