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For our DJ

Your timings and setups for March 9: music from 3:25 PM, three spots in the venue, and the moments to cue.

1:30 PMArrive and set up
2:00 PMSound check
3:25 PMMusic on
7:00 PMSparkler entrance
9:00 PMSend-off

Questions for you

Microphones

The venue's microphone isn't strong enough for the ceremony or speeches. Can you bring a sound system and wireless microphones? If not, we'll rent them through the venue.

Recording

We're making our own video. Could you record the audio from the ceremony and speech microphones, so the vows are clear?

Everything else we're waiting on is in open items.

Time1:30 – 10:00 PM
Venue sound system
USB drive, MP3

Plays through the whole building. Music needs to be on a USB drive as MP3 files.

Three setups
Balcony, 3rd floor, 1st floor

Ceremony on the balcony (speakers and a wireless microphone), reception on the 3rd floor (a speaker and microphone for speeches), and the party on the 1st floor (your main setup). The venue system covers cocktail hour in the garden (to confirm it reaches outside).

Rain plan
Indoors, 2nd floor

If it rains, the ceremony moves indoors to the second-floor area by the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Day-of contact
Day-of coordinator

Name TBC, contact coming soon. On the day, please message them rather than us.

Heads up Song choices and the must-play / do-not-play list are still to come. The timing below is accurate in the meantime.

Your day 12:00 – 10:00 PM

Arrive and set up

TBC

Time to confirm. The venue opens at 12:00 PM. Please set up all three spots before 3:10 PM: the balcony speakers and microphone, the reception speaker and microphone on the 3rd floor, and your main setup on the 1st floor.

Where
Garden91

Sound check

Checkpoint

Ceremony speakers and microphone first, then the 3rd and 1st floors.

When
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Where
Balcony, then the 3rd and 1st floors
Same time

Officiant briefing

TBC

With the officiant and our day-of coordinator: microphone check and the music cues for the processional, vows, and recessional. Officiant TBC.

Where
Balcony

Music on

Entrance and balcony.

Where
Entrance and balcony

Pack the ceremony speakers

Once family photos finish. The reception speaker is already set up on the 3rd floor.

Where
Balcony
With
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Party music on the 1st floor

Guests move down right after the cake. The 3rd-floor speaker stays until 9:00 PM.

Where
1st floor

Pack the 1st floor, then the 3rd floor

Out by 10:00 PM, when our booking ends.

When
9:00 – 10:00 PM
Where
1st floor and 3rd floor

Welcome 3:30 – 3:50 PM

Guests arriving

Background music while guests mingle at the entrance.

Where
Entrance

Ceremony 3:50 – 4:30 PM

Guests seated

Background music while guests find their seats.

Where
Balcony

Ceremony

Key momentTBC

Processional: one song for the bridesmaids, the groomsmen, and the flower boy with the bride's mom, then a change for the bride and her dad (guests stand). An upbeat song for the recessional. Songs TBC.

When
4:00 – 4:25 PM
Where
Balcony, under the trellis

Cocktail Hour 4:30 – 5:30 PM

Cocktail hour

Background music in the garden while the couple is off taking photos.

When
4:30 – 5:30 PM
Where
Garden and boardwalk

Reception 5:30 – 7:00 PM

Entrances

Key momentTBC

Guests seated, then the couple enters. Whether the wedding party enters first, and the entrance song: TBC.

Where
3rd floor
Reception concept

Welcome speech

Mic ready. The couple ends with a toast (乾杯).

Where
3rd floor

Dinner served

Background music during dinner.

Where
3rd floor

Cake cutting

Key momentTBC

Song TBC.

Where
3rd floor

Party 7:00 – 9:00 PM

Sparkler entrance

Key moment

An upbeat entrance song while we walk in from the terrace through two lines of guests with sparklers (song TBC). Please make sure it carries out onto the terrace, and fade into our first dance song as we reach the dance floor.

When
7:00 – 7:10 PM
Where
1st-floor terrace, in to the dance floor (if it rains: inside, from the door to the dance floor)

First dance

Key momentTBC

Song TBC.

Where
1st floor

Parents' dances

Key moment

The father-daughter and mother-son dances happen at the same time, so one song for both.

Where
1st floor

Dance floor opens

When
7:15 – 9:00 PM
Where
1st floor

Send-off

TBC

Last song TBC. Possible move to a second location afterwards (TBC).

Day-of logistics →See the full timeline →