How to Announce Your Wedding Party
Announcing the wedding party to guests is to honor them for their standing with the bride and groom and participation in the ceremony. Generally, the process is conducted in a traditionally formal manner. Some wedding parties liven up the reception with a non-traditional entry, including dancing out onto the runway and even performing a group dancing number. At the least, the MC/DJ can speak several lines of pre-determined comical comments after each name.
- Arrange well in advance for the master of ceremonies or the disk jockey hired for the reception to announce the wedding party before the reception begins. Provide the MC/DJ with a list of the names of the wedding party and his role in the wedding. Spell out difficult-to-pronounce names phonetically to make these easier to pronounce.
- Assign the best man and matron/maid of honor the responsibility of supervising the wedding party’s entrance into the reception.
- Conduct a practice introduction and entry into the reception well before the wedding ceremony begins.
- Plan to begin the entry into the reception with the bride’s parents, followed by the parents of the groom. Next in the procession are the bridesmaids and groomsmen, walking out in pairs. The ring bearer and flower girl follow the bride maids and groomsmen with the bride and groom coming out last.
- Have each couple pause for approximately 30 seconds in front of the guests for photos before moving to the head table.
- Appoint several trusted guests to locate the members of the wedding party after the wedding ceremony and keep track of them leading up to the reception.
- Make certain the MC or DJ has the listing of the wedding party and coordinates the timing of the introductions.