Brunch wedding

We are doing a brunch wedding. Our photographer is arriving by 8 am. First look is 9:30 am. Ceremony starts at 10:30. Cocktail hr starts at 11 am and is only half and hr long and reception starts at 11:30. As far as hair and make up, I have yet to figure that out. Since our place is at a ballroom with a double tree hotel we are staying there the night before since we know we are going to have an early start to our day.

Brunch wedding here! Or breakfast wedding I guess, since we are having all breakfast food at the reception! I don't have the timeline all together yet, but the ceremony starts at 11 am. 1120/30ish we will start pictures and the guests will start the social hour with refreshments and lawn games. So maybe 1230 ish is when we want to start the reception. We will probably exit before , but probably closer to 3.

7:45am Photographer arrives
9am first look/bride and groom portraits
11am guests start arriving (time on invitation)
11:30-11:45 ceremony
Cocktail “hour”/pics
first dances
brunch served 12:45!
then everyone will probably be gone by 2:30-3!

I was having a 10am ceremony with a brunch reception but I had to change my time so my bridal party could get their makeup done.

Also doing a very low-key brunch wedding (I will be the only one getting professional hair/make up). Here's our timeline:

8:00 A.M.- Wedding party arrives at venue. Set up begins / getting ready.

9:30 A.M. - Wedding Party Pictures / Bridal + Groom Portraits

10:00 A.M - Ceremony

10:30-11:30 A.M. - Mimosa Hour (Family Pictures / Couple Portraits)

11:30 A.M. - First Dance

11:35 - 12:45 P.M. - Brunch Buffet

1:00 P.M. - Cake Cutting (Cupcakes for everybody else)

1:45 P.M. - Bubble Send-Off (FH & I are going straight to the airport for our Honeymoon!)

2:00 - 3:00 P.M - Clean Up

I had a very low key brunch wedding. We set up the church and reception hall the day before,

Myself and Photographer(s) arrived to the church at 8:00 am. I had a friend do my hair and makeup and I didn't have a bridal party other than my 12 year old daughter. FH had two best men and I don't know what their timeline was.

Wedding began at 10:00 am

Reception 10:20 am directly across the hallway where we ate, had a first dance, cut the "cheesecake" played in the photo booth, listened to speeches, mingled etc.!

We cleared the church by 1:30pm (clean up crew was so large they were done and out of there by 2:00) and had the rest of the day to celebrate with each other! Having a brunch wedding was seriously the best decision we made! I loved every minute of it and would do it again in a heart beat!

Our wedding starts at 11:00 am, here's my draft timeline so far... still need more details but, we have a little over a year.

4:30 am - hair & makeup (me, MOH MOB, MOG, flower girls hair)

8:00 am - Bride arrives at the venue

8:30 am - Groom arrives at the venue

9:00 am - Bride family photos

10:00 am- Groom family photos

11:00 am - Ceremony starts

11:30 am - Passed apps/cocktail 'hour'

12:00 pm - Grand entrance

12:30 pm - Lunch starts

3:30 pm - Departure

We're doing a brunch wedding.....ceremony at 11:30am at the venue, then brunch at a restaurant nearby immediately following around 1:30pm.

I haven't finished our timeline yet, but I think that if you plan ahead and do a practice run of hair and makeup, you'll be able to knock out the timing pretty close to what the actual day will look like.