{"id":1487,"date":"2014-10-23T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesnerinn.wordpress.com\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:20:17","slug":"best-wedding-timelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/blog\/best-wedding-timelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Wedding Timelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lesner Inn,<\/a> we\u2019re often asked about the details of your <a href=\"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wedding timeline<\/a> &amp; where it pertains to us. Our rule of thumb is if you have a lot of events throughout the evening, and a lot of guests to entertain, make sure you have the time to do it! Also \u2013 since we\u2019re a <a href=\"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waterfront venue in Virginia Beach<\/a>, our <a href=\"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sunsets <\/a>are a main attraction \u2013 and thus, another factor into the wedding timeline.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen many timelines but here\u2019s what we think works best:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Afternoon Ceremony &amp; Reception<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9:00 AM: Vendors \/ Wedding party have access to the venue for set up<\/li>\n<li>10:00 AM: First Look Photographs<\/li>\n<li>11:00 AM: Ceremony<\/li>\n<li>11:30 AM: Cocktail Hour \/ Family Portraits<\/li>\n<li>12:15 PM: Bridal Party announcements<\/li>\n<li>12:30 PM: First dance<\/li>\n<li>12:40 PM: Lunch<\/li>\n<li>1:00 PM: First dances with the parents<\/li>\n<li>1:15 PM: Dancing<\/li>\n<li>2:00 PM: Toasts &amp; Cake Cutting<\/li>\n<li>2:20 PM: Dancing<\/li>\n<li>2:30 PM: Last Call for alcohol at the bar<\/li>\n<li>2:50 PM: Bouquet &amp; Garter toss as send off<\/li>\n<li>3:00 PM: End of Reception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Evening Ceremony &amp; Reception<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4:00 PM: Vendors \/ Wedding party have access to the venue for set up<\/li>\n<li>5:00 PM: First Look Photographs<\/li>\n<li>6:00 PM: Ceremony<\/li>\n<li>6:30 PM: Cocktail Hour \/ Family Portraits<\/li>\n<li>7:15 PM: Bridal Party Announcements<\/li>\n<li>7:30 PM: First dance<\/li>\n<li>7:40 PM: Dinner<\/li>\n<li>8:00 PM: First dances with the parents<\/li>\n<li>8:15 PM: Dancing<\/li>\n<li>9:00 PM: Toasts &amp; Cake Cutting<\/li>\n<li>9:20 PM: Dancing<\/li>\n<li>9:30 PM: Last Call for alcohol at the bar<\/li>\n<li>9:50 PM: Bouquet &amp; Garter toss as send off<\/li>\n<li>10:00 PM: End of Reception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Lesner Inn, we\u2019re often asked about the details of your wedding timeline &amp; where it pertains to us. Our rule of thumb is if you have a lot of events throughout the evening, and a lot of guests to entertain, make sure you have the time to do it! Also \u2013 since we\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[89,133,177,235,253,258,259,262,265,291,295],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesnerinn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}