Are there any non-cringey bridal party entrances?

For what it’s worth, where we are located and in our social circles, reception entrances are not done because there is no gap after the ceremony beyond any driving time and no guests are invited to the reception only who are not familiar with who the couple is. We have seen many uncomfortable entrances on social media: YouTube and Tiktok that make us grateful that our social circles don’t do them. Luckily the dj that we hired understood skipping it and had no issues doing so, while others tried to pressure us into it.


If you have no choice as a bridesmaid/groomsman to participate, just smile and do a pageant wave and then sit down.

I’ve never done anything beyond walk in. I think the super choreographed things are inherently cringey. Just walk in and be happy!

I am thinking of my bridesmaids walk in together and the groomsmen together. having couples walk that don’t even know each other always felt weird.


Maybe you could have a small introduction for each person. Like 2 bridesmaids walk in together and the DJ announces: “(bridesmaid 1 name) met the bride in college.. (bridesmaid 2).. and the bride are childhood friends”
making it more like get to know the people we had next to us & why they are special.
that’s what i’ve been thinking of doing but ofc im still wondering too, i think the entrances on tiktok are cringey as well lol

Personally, I am not a fan of theatrical wedding party entrances. I have been forced to do them multiple times, and every time with someone I didn’t know well. I can tell you what we did, and maybe one of these ideas will work for you?
With one, we simply walked in and high-fived each other. With another, we did a play on icing. I “hid” a bottle of Smirnoff ice behind my back and “surprised” him with it and he kneeled & chugged it (that one was a real crowd pleaser). The third time, the groomsmen had the idea for us to switch outfits. So we ran to the bathroom real quick, and he put on my dress and I put on his dress shirt, suit jacket & tie (that one was a crowd pleaser also).

In my circles I only rarely see the bridal party included in an entrance. The couple walk in excited to be introduced as a married couple. There’s no need for theatrics. Only once in all the weddings I’ve attended was there more and it was IMO cringeworthy. The wedding party are honored guests not performers or puppets. It’s an inappropriate ask in my opinion that’s not in particularly great taste.


If absolutely forced to do this I’d keep it simple with a wave as suggested. Too bad.

I'm not a big fan of them either. We are doing our photos before the ceremony (at a church, so different than the reception location), so we'll have time (hopefully) to be at the majority of the cocktail hour. We are just being introduced as a couple for the first time and rolling right into our first dance right after that. The bridal party was all more than fine skipping the entrances and making it a big to-do.

All the times I’ve been in a wedding, we’ve thought of 1 quick little move while waiting to be announced, so literally 2 minutes of thought and conversation went into it. Normally it’s just been dancing individually next to each other to the music. This has been the case for the weddings I’ve attended as a guest as well. No huge theatrics, just a little something, and basically the bridal party stays on the dance floor to hype up the bride and groom’s entrance and then they all sit down because that’s when the bride and groom have their first dance. OP, are they asking for something more rehearsed? Is that common where you’re from?

Can you just throw candy out to the guests -- just something simple and easy? I've not seen what is done for this extra part of the reception.