Struggling with the perfect wedding timeline for your special day?

Ideas on how to craft a wedding day timeline for your Grand Junction CO Wedding.

Grand Junction couple saying "I Do" at Antler Ridge Weddings

This blog will share two timelines that will help minimize your stress.

Creating a detailed timeline of events from getting ready, ceremony, photos and reception will ensure that your special day will run smoothly.

Antler Ridge Weddings located near Grand Junction, Colorado has been in the wedding business for 9 years and we are excited to share a couple of timelines . We are basically, a DIY wedding venue, so our brides have the option to create their own timeline or to hire a local event planner such as, Blissful Moment Events located in Grand Junction, Colorado or Meant To Be located in Montrose, CO

The timelines below were created by our Brides . They worked beautifully at Antler Ridge Weddings and we hope they will minimize your stress and give you some ideas so that you can create your own.

Getting Ready (Girls)

9:30AM BREAKFAST

11:00-11:30AM  BLOW DRY AND ROUND BRUSH HAIR (AUNTIE/MARY)

11:30-1:00PM MAKEUP (HANNAH)

1:00-2:30PM HAIR (AUNTIE AND MARY)

*HAVE BRIDAL SUITE AREA CLEANED UP FOR PHOTOGRAPHER ARRIVAL AT 2PM

GETTING READY PICTURES FROM 2:00-3:00PM

Bride getting ready at Grand Junction Colorado wedding venue

2-3pm Getting Ready Photos

Girls in Bridal Suite

3pm Father-Daughter First Look

3-:00-3:30pm Bridal Party Photos

3:30pm Groomsmen and Groom Meeting at the Gazebo

3:30-4pm Chill Down Time

Grand Junction Wedding Barn Venue .

3:30-4:00pm Pre-Ceremony Music

4:00pm Ceremony:

1. Groom & Pastor are waiting (August 31st, 3pm)

2. Grandparents & Parents procession 

3. Wedding Party procession - By Your Grace by Cody Johnson

4. (List your Bridemaides and Groomen) in order of the procession.

5. Ring bearer & Flower girl -  By Your Grace by Cody Johnson

6. Bride & Father procession (let song completely finish) - This is It by Scotty McCreary

“Who gives this woman in marriage?” (“Her mother and I do”)

Bridesmaids at Grand Junction wedding venue .

Ceremony

Prayer 

…Please take your seats.

Greeting

Family and friends, today is a great celebration of bringing two individuals together...........

1. Vows

1. Rings

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1. I Do’s: 

Montrose couple say "I DO" at Grand Junction Wedding Venue

Pronouncing of Man and Wife

 Everyone, please join me in celebrating for the first time , Mr. and Mrs. ..........

  “Immediate family, please remain close for pictures.  Beginning with the first rows, please follow the  wedding party to the reception area downstairs to continue this joy-filled celebration”

Best Day of My Life Plays

4:30-5:30pm Cocktail Hour - Play Soft Country and Gospel Music

Charcuterie and Drinks Served

5:45pm: Bridal Party Announced into Reception: Play Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore

Order:

(List wedding party in order to be announced)

5:50pm: Bride and Groom thank you speeches

Rustic Elegant Barn wedding venue near Grand Junction Colorado

6:00pm: Start Releasing Tables to Dinner (Please start with Bride and Groom family tables then 1-5, 6-10, etc.) There are two family tables and numbers 1-14

Bride and Groom go around to talk to tables

DJ make announcement that guests bring plates with them

6:45pm: Toasts and Speeches

(Father of the Bride)

(Maid of Honor)

(Best Man)

Premiere Barn Wedding in Grand Junction Colorado

7:05-7:20pm First Dances 

Bride and Groom - Life with You by Kelsey Hart

Bride and Groom- Best Parts of Me by Will Dempsey

Bride and Groom- Thought You Should Know by Morgan Wallen

7:20pm Cake Cutting - Play On My Way to You by Cody Johnson

(Bride and Groom to sneak away for 10-15 minutes of Golden Hour Photos) 

DJ to make announcement to grab a drink and cupcake

7:30pm Dance Floor Opens

9:30pm Last Call for Alcohol

9:50pm Play Last Song - Love Story  by Taylor Swift

Grand Junction Spring Wedding.

9:55pm Sparkler Send Off Set up 

Bride and Groom will have one final dance alone together in barn (Play Rumor by Lee Brice)

10pm Sparkler Send-off

Vendor Contacts (Add all Vendors below)

Family photos in front of Rustic barn wedding venue in Montrose Co

Second Example of a Wedding timeline used at Antler Ridge Weddings.

Wedding Day!!!

1:00

Day of Coordinator arrivies

Photographer arrivies

1:40

Groomsmen arrive (Stage groom in front of barn for first look)

2:00

DJ arrives

Bride and Groom first look and private vows

2:30

All wedding party photos

3:30 caterer arrives

4:00-4:20

All wedding party meet in Log Gazebo

4:30-5:00

Ceremony

Siblings, Bride and Groon return to Gazebo after ceremony to sign marriage license

5:00-5:30

Fanily pictures(Officiant will remind all the family to remain at the ceremony site) all other guests will be dismissed for cocktail hour

6:00

DJ instructs all guests to be seated

Grand Entrance

Wedding party (List below the couple to be announced by the DJ)

Bride and Groom. ( List music for entrance)

6:05

Welcome speech by Bride and Groom

6:15-7:00

Dinner served

6:45

Speches(in this order). Maid of honor, Best Man, etc.

7:00

First Dances

7:20

Dance Floor opens

10:30

Bar Closes

10:30

Last Song of the Night

Music ends

Shuttle arrives for Departure

Antler Ridge is a locally owned wedding venue located 60 minutes from Grand Junction Co We would like to shout out to other locally owned wedding venues Nation Wide.

• 1908grand.com

• The Barn at Twiggy’s

• Yellowbrickon 39

• Celestialfarms 22

• Blueberry Hill Wedding Barn Elkin NC

• Bella Rosa Venue