Host: How do I signal to my guests that the reception is over?
Kay Williams: You wanted your guests to go home from a reception? The band you have or the music background, cut it off, cut it off. Have the cater, take the food down a little bit you know maybe the—for them to serve the drinks. Start getting it together you know. Honestly, tell them, okay, you know this is for the wedding. You make sure your planner or you program at the bottom there it says, “Reception from four to midnight.” So reception—to two o’clock in the morning—or you’ve had contracted it—if it’s two o’clock in the morning you tell your guest 12 o’clock, 12 and 12 o’clock. That way, by two o’clock they’ll be gone. There will be no more food. There will be no more drinks and so they’ll begin to think and like okay people will be going out, you understand.
So, if they know you especially you can go out and tell them, “Fine, we’re going to end.” But if you don’t know them, they came from somebody else and they are guests of somebody else and—friend or your cousin they can soft down you know—cut off the band, tell the band, “Don’t play the music or start playing mellow music instead of hip hop using your—like let’s go and you know the dance hall is up.” No, mellow down. Start mellowing soft down. I’m not going to take off the decoration of table, I’m just saying don’t serve anything, close the bar down if you have a bar. It’s how you signal. Close in the bar maybe tell your closest friend we got to leave, book at two o’clock in the morning but actually tell and get—or when it’s over work day in the program. Just tell them and then make it in bold letters. Program should never be small like this. Anything you want get to know in the program that you really want to know about put it in bold. Let us stand now, give it color like—print is all black. Give me a red, you put reception 4 to 12 or 6 to 12 so you have list in now and always be honest.
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