The time of your Wedding Ceremony can make a HUGE impact on your Reception.

By Jeff Hayes

Did you know that the time of your Wedding Ceremony can have a direction impact on the success of your Wedding Reception? This answer may surprise you.

As your guests are planning their events on your wedding day, they will either plan something after your reception or they won't. If your ceremony time is too early in the day it will allow them to plan another event or function after yours. If so, then you may find that many of them may not stay as long as you have hoped.

Ask yourself these questions; 1) If I were attending a wedding at 3:00 pm, would it be the last event that I planned that day? or 2) If I were attending a wedding at 5:00 pm, would it be the last event that I planned that day? See the difference?

If you want them to stay late in the evening then keep this in mind while you are setting your ceremony time.


Written by Jeff Hayes (Owner of The Party Machine) and he can be reached at jhayes@partymachine.com

If you want to $pend thousand$ of dollar$ on your Wedding Reception just to kill it, well, right here is where you can start.

By Jeff Hayes

I am amazed at the number of brides that allow their guests to be dumped to the parking lot for a fake leave.

The idea is to interrupt the reception, move all the guests outside, fake a leave and then move all the guests back inside to continue the reception. You may actually be saying why would you do this?

Basically it's to allow the video or photo guy to bail out early, well guess what? So do your guests. We have seen upwards of 40-60% of the guests not come back in after a fake leave. In fact, I have seen a few parties die in the hands of a fake leave.

Here is a free piece of advice so you don't have to worry about this happening... ready... hire someone that will agree up front to stay till the end of your reception. C'mon, this is your special day right? They can hurry home to watch tv some other time.


Written by Jeff Hayes (Owner of The Party Machine) and he can be reached at jhayes@partymachine.com