The run of show
One very long Saturday
It starts at seven in the morning and finishes at about ten at night. Here is the whole of it, including the parts you are not expected to be awake for.
Morning
Long before you see any of it
Hair, make-up and photographs, from seven in the morning. The entourage is called for half past eleven.
- 7:00 AM
The day starts
Breakfast for Carlo and Kristinne and the people looking after them. The coordinator and the hair and make-up team arrive at half past.
- 8:30 AM
Hair and make-up begins
The bride first, then the mothers and the groom, running continuously from here until the ceremony look in the afternoon.
- 10:30 AM
The preparation shoot
The photographers and videographers arrive at ten and start with the details and the getting-ready frames. Bridal and groom portraits follow at eleven.
- 11:30 AM
Entourage photographs
Team Bride and Team Groom, both at half past eleven. This is the call time for the wedding party, so please be in your outfit and ready by then rather than arriving at it.
- 12:00 NN
Lunch
Eat properly now. The next real meal is a long way off.
Afternoon
Into the ceremony look
The change, the retouch, and one hour of enforced rest.
- 1:00 PM
Into the ceremony look
The couple, the family and the entourage change and are retouched. Meanwhile the caterer, stylist and the sound and lighting teams take over the reception venue.
- 1:30 PM
The pre-ceremony shoot
The last quiet frames before it all begins, then an hour of rest at half past two.
- 3:00 PM
Final retouch
Everyone ready and waiting by half past three.
Ceremony
The part that counts
Please come early. This is the half hour they care about most.
- 3:00 PM
Guests arrive
You are warmly welcome from three. The ushers will show you to your seat; the front rows are kept for the parents and the sponsors. The ceremony begins promptly at four.
- 4:00 PM
The ceremony
Processional, vows, rings and the unity rites, led by Pastor Jomar. Then the pronouncement, the kiss, and the recessional.
In between
The gap, and why it is there
The photographs at the church take a while, and the reception is half an hour away in Rosario. The doors there open at six.
- 5:00 PM
Photographs at the church
The family and entourage groupings, then the couple on their own. This is the part that takes longer than anyone expects, and it is worth it.
- 6:00 PM
Everyone travels to the reception
The couple go ahead for the empty-hall photographs and their third look. The doors open to guests at six.
Reception
Then, the whole evening
The full running order, in the order your host will actually call it. It opens with everybody on their feet and it ends at about ten, with a proper three quarters of an hour in the middle for dinner.
- Doors open
- 6:00 PM
- Dinner is called
- 7:05 PM
- Doors to goodnight
- 3 hours 50 minutes
Every time below is worked out from the six o'clock doors, so treat them as close rather than exact. A ceremony that runs long, or a room that will not stop dancing, moves everything after it. Nobody minds.
- 6:00 PM15 min
The doors open, and we dance
Everybody on their feet, ninongs and ninangs very much included. Erick leads it, the music plays, and whoever gives it the most wins the first photograph with Carlo and Kristinne.
- 6:15 PM5 min
Welcome from your host
Erick opens the evening, and announces that there is a special game at the end with packages to be won.
- 6:20 PM5 min
The parents
Introduced from where they are seated.
- 6:25 PM5 min
The principal sponsors
The ninongs and ninangs, from where they are seated.
- 6:30 PM15 min
The entourage comes in
By group: the secondary sponsors, the bearers, then Team Bride and Team Groom, each to their own song.
- 6:45 PM5 min
Grand entrance
Carlo and Kristinne walk in as husband and wife for the first time. Phones up.
- 6:50 PM5 min
The prayer
Led by Mar Alen Alamo.
- 6:55 PM10 min
How well do you know them?
Ten trivia questions about the bride and groom, before anyone eats. The winners are first in line for dinner, with a photograph with the couple first.
- 7:05 PM45 min
Dinner
Called table by table. Please eat well; there is a lot of evening left.
- 7:50 PM5 min
The first dance
Their first dance as husband and wife.
- 7:55 PM15 min
The prosperity dance
No pins, no envelopes, no props. Come up, hold them for a moment, whisper them a blessing, and dance a few steps with them. That is the whole tradition, done the way they want it.
- 8:10 PM10 min
Cake cutting, the wine toast, and everyone sings
Carlo and Kristinne slice the cake, blow out the candle and raise their glasses while the whole room sings Panalangin to them. You are not an audience for this one, so please do sing.
- 8:20 PM10 min
The toasts
The best man and the maid of honour, in that order. Bring tissues.
- 8:30 PM10 min
A word from loved ones
Short messages for the couple from the people closest to them.
- 8:40 PM10 min
The parents speak
The two mothers first, then the two fathers.
- 8:50 PM10 min
Dance with the parents
Kristinne with her father, then Carlo with his mother.
- 9:00 PM10 min
The bouquet game
Sinulid at karayom for the single ladies. The first to thread the needle takes the bouquet.
- 9:10 PM5 min
The garter
Carlo does the honours.
- 9:15 PM10 min
The Cinderella game
The single gentlemen lose a shoe, then race to find it. The last one back is Mr Bachelor and gets the garter.
- 9:25 PM5 min
The winners' game
The bouquet and garter winners copy whatever the couple do. Nobody is warned in advance.
- 9:30 PM10 min
Guess the song
The last game, for five players, with packages to be won. Trips, of a sort.
- 9:40 PM5 min
Thank you, from Carlo and Kristinne
The two of them say their piece, and they mean every word of it.
- 9:45 PM5 min
Goodnight
Erick closes the evening, and then we send them off properly.
Your host
Erick is running the evening
He is both the best man and the host, which is two jobs, so a separate on-the-day coordinator is being assigned for everything that is not a microphone.
The running order below is his, so if you are giving a toast, reading, performing or leading the prayer, speak to him well before the day rather than on the night. He would much rather move something than surprise you with it.
17.10.2026
Tell them you are coming
The programme comes together far more easily once the couple know who will be there.
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