#281 Avid Listener Plans Her Own Cocktail Style Reception

After years of listening to the show Michelle Dobbs reached out to Christy for a wedding planning consultation regarding her cocktail style wedding reception. If you’ve never heard of this kind of wedding, you’re not alone. There's no sit down dinner and well you’re pretty much just throwing out the rulebook, so if you make the decision to have this kind of wedding reception then you’d had better be ready to JUST DO IT! This episode is all about the planning, execution and retrospective take-aways after the big day.

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Big Takeaways

• For a cocktail style event/wedding, have something that happens every 30-minutes or so. It can just be an announcement, or something bigger, but it helps with the passage of time.
• For seating: set it up like you would see at a bar or restaurant so it encourages people to not settle down on to one table, but to move around and sit where they want.
• Writing your own vows and privately sharing them was a huge relief and felt very intimate.
• I also added a note in the invites on what to expect and I think that really helped people get it.
• People loved the tray - pass drinks.
• I did end up doing the "order of events" sign - Icalled it "here's the plan" which people complimented because that's so me, which was fun. And I think that helped people know what food was when and what to look forward to

Jessica’s Takeaways (after the wedding) :

• Everyone says the day goes by so fast. I had no idea!
• There is a lot I didn't see.
• I was present for every conversation I had but not much else. If I could go back I would be more intentional about building in time to see the reception space and take a moment to take a deep breath and really take it in rather than just keep moving.
• Get married and celebrate in a way that works for you!
• At the end of the day, it'll be you and your partner at home holding on to those memories.

Links We Referenced

manscaped.com

aisleplanner.com

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