Responsibilities of the Wedding MC

1. Acquaint himself with DJ before reception

2. Introduce himself to the audience including relationship to bride and/or groom to guests.

3. Introduction of the Bridal Party

• Make sure everyone is seated
• Announce ushers/bridesmaids by couple, then best man and maid/matron of honour
• Leave a pause for the bridal party (except bride and groom) to get positioned
• Announce bride and groom as Mr. & Mrs. as they enter the building

4. Receiving Line - If Required

• Bring up people table by table to be received by bridal party
• Check with hall staff/caterer how long until dinner is ready to be served

5. Dinner

• If buffet dinner is being served, invite head table to come up up first
• Count how many tables there are, then select tables at random to go up for dinner
• Announce seconds and dessert if there is dessert being served

6. Speeches

• If there is a sit down dinner, speeches may be interspersed between the courses
• Announce out of town guests, parents, grandparents
• Telegrams
• Toast to the bride
• Response by Groom
• Toast to bridesmaids and maid of honour by best man
• Groom makes short speech
• Cutting of the cake
• Turn over of responsibility to DJ for the rest of the evening

Notes:

• Anecdotes about bride and groom are fine, as long as they are in good taste
• Arrange any gag gifts or things like room key prank, etc. in advance
• to avoid excessive glass clinking, think of things to make the guests work to make the bride and groom kiss