You and your beautiful new wife, along with your parents and her parents will form what is called a receiving line atthe reception . Guests will enter the reception room and you'll greet them as they do. The receiving line is great fun. You get to spend approximately 3.5 seconds with each person, and, in the case of your wife's family and friends, just enough time to realize you can't remember their names, or aren't sure if they really are family or friends.

The Reception - About 2 hours

Food, drink and speeches. That's about all you need to know, other than when, exactly, you'll be making yours. Make sure you've had a discussion with your wedding master of ceremonies a couple of days before the reception and, ideally, the night before as well. He has to keep things rolling otherwise it will be painfully slow between courses and toasts.

Post Reception - All Night Long (that is, until you leave)

The beginning of the end of the wedding. Have a great time. You'll leave at some point with your bride, earlier in the evening, leaving your guests to party.

Wedding Night Sex - About 7.5 minutes, if at all

You, of course, have other important things to take care of. There's no shame in leaving the reception at midnight to retire to your hotel room. It is, after all, your wedding night. If you're too tired for wedding night love making, then don't worry about it. Unless, of course, it's your first time, and having saved all that energy, desire and passion for wedding night will be quite a relief, we'd expect. Click here for some wedding night performance tips.

Gift Opening

Traditionally, around noon the next day, the bride and groom will re-appear and open presents. "A cutting board and salad mixer combo!" you'll grin, with a great big, and likely less than real, smile. You're in the home stretch now.

Bon Voyage

You say your goodbyes, and if you've planned it all well, will be whisked away to the airport for the honeymoon of a lifetime.

And that's how this whirlwind wedding will go. Don't be late!

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Shorty

Fri, Sep.11th 2009
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My fiance doesn't know much about weddings, he has only ever been to 2. This information is great it will help him feel so much better! I love this website! Thanks!

katie

Sun, Sep.6th 2009
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I wish they had a similar website in Australia! Will definately be sending this link to my fiance. He'll need something like this to get him organised on the day!

fu-ka-u

Mon, Feb.23rd 2009
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lame

BlondLFRedneck

Wed, Jan.14th 2009
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Lyke oh my god i totaly wish i was like a redneck omg... this seems so fun. OH MY GOSH!!

Ben, RSA

Sat, Jan.10th 2009
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Dear John (Redneck) - Stick to surfing the web - leave your long & boring comments where they belong - in your mind.

john m. ashworth jr.

Sat, Aug.2nd 2008
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As a redneck i even realized that your spelling to your comment, was off. My Question to you is that how would you think some one would impose that your comment to AJ would affect anyone with your time and effort to proof read your comment to some one who is giving information at free will to help people like you find the response/ tips they need or ask your self this, why spend time out of your life to try to prove someone wrong when you can't even find why you even posted a comment in first place? I understand that text messages are not understood of what tone is used in some cases, so my tone to you isn't negative. It's just to inform you of an error of your own to help you better understand that wording makes the difference. I don't agree with it but it's how america functions now. America judges the book by it's cover. What's on the inside of that book remains a mystery only b/c some don't take the time to take a look inside that book which may be hiding something valuable that don't want the rest to know about. this tells me this, The mesage i'm trying to give is that if you are this book, how would you be presented?

GroomGroove.com

Fri, Mar.14th 2008
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Thanks for catching that, AJ! We've definitely got some well-rounded readers. We always appreciate your input and insight.

Thu, Feb.7th 2008
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There is an error in this article. You speak of the "here comes the bride music" and state that it is called Wedding March by Felix Mendelsohn. As someone with a degree in music, I can tell you taht the traditional processional ("Here comes the bride") was written by Richard Wagner. Mendelsohn is the composer of the traditional recessional.

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