u/kschmidt07

For people that did a grand announcement/entrance to their wedding breakfast how did you make it not feel staged/awkward?? Our venue coordinator has asked us to pick an entrance song and an MC to announce us to kick off the wedding breakfast and I’m struggling to think of a song and intro that feels natural. We could opt not to do it of course but as it seems so common I’m thinking it must be important for setting the right energy/tone for the day?

Every time I see an instagram video of the bride and groom dancing in to everyone cheering waving their napkins I internally cringe imagining myself doing that! Absolutely no hate to couples that do it - but it feels awkward to me to have a “second” grand entrance when we’ve just been mingling and chatting to guests during the canapé/cocktail reception before the wedding breakfast. In my mind, walking down the aisle is the big entrance, and the celebratory walk back down the aisle after the cows is when everyone cheers/applauds. Am I just overthinking this?

For people that had a grand entrance, did you have your ceremony on the same day? I’m wondering if all these videos I’m seeing are from receptions that were held at a later date to the actual ceremony, which then makes sense as it’s the first time guests are seeing you!

Any song/intro wording recs or advice from others who were hesitant to do the grand entrance?

Hi all, we’ve just received our ceremony preference form from the registrar where we need to list out any readings we’d like to include on the day. I’ve never been to a UK civil ceremony, but from what I’ve gathered online it always seems to be a guest doing the reading like the mother or father of the bride. Would it be strange or even possible for me as the bride to do the reading? After looking around online for various readings and not finding any that really felt right I wrote my own poem, and I’d like to read it myself.

It’s written in the first person POV so it would read a bit strangely for a guest to read it and also I think it would be a nice way for me to add my own mark to the wedding as my fiancé is doing a DJ set so that’s kind of his contribution. Neither mine nor my fiancés parents speak English as a first language and they wouldn’t be very comfortable doing a reading, wcould ask our bridesmaids/groomsmen but it feels slightly odd to me to have them read poems giving advice about marriage or love when none of them are married/in a relationship.

Have you ever been to a wedding where the bride or groom did their own reading? Or is this more of a moment for the guests to speak and honour them?