Ceremony & Reception start time?

My ceremony is at 4 at a church and cocktail hour at my venue is starting at 5:30

Ceremony: 3:00-3:45PM or 4:00PM (Catholic ceremony)

Cocktail hour: 4:00-5:00PM- cocktail hour

Reception: 5:00-9:00PM

Ceremony is at 1 (I know the time stinks, but my priest wouldn't budge on timing because of his afternoon confession).

Cocktail hour is at 4:00pm

Reception is from 5:00pm-10:00pm

In between the ceremony and cocktail hour, my parents are hosting anyone that wants to come over for snacks and drinks so they have somewhere to hang out for the hour and a half-ish gap.

Ceremony: 6pm

Mingling time: Approx. 625-7pm

Dinner: 7pm

We aren't having a cocktail hour since we have such a small gap.

Ceremony at 4, champagne toast and mingling right after, cocktails from 5-6, guests seated at 6-15, dinner served at 630

Ceremony 12:30-1:30p.m. **my house which is about a 5 minute drive from the venue will be available for guests to hang out while the cocktail hour starts, as well as FHs house which is only a 10 minute drive from the venue.

Cocktail Hour 3:30p.m.-5:00p.m.

Reception: 5:00p.m.- midnight

Ceremony: 2:30-3 (half hour gap for travelling from ceremony site to reception which is 10 mins away)

Cocktail hour: 3:30-4:30 (so we have time to take pictures) our cocktail hour is also not a waited event so individuals will be able to grab what they want when they want, until it runs our basically.

Reception: 4:45-tba (our reception and cocktail hour are in the same place so people really aren't leaving) Dinner will be served around 5.

Our ceremony will start at 6:30pm. We're expecting it to be apx. 20 mins.

Cocktail hour will start immediately following the ceremony (same venue) so about 7pm.

We're doing a first look and plan to take 95% of our pictures before the ceremony, so I'm thinking our cocktail hour will really be more like 45 minutes before we usher guests into the ballroom and intro the bridal party. So, reception from 7:45ish-11pm, dinner served before 8pm. I reaaallly wanted our reception to go until 12 midnight but it would cost us over $1,500 and we just can't justify the cost of the extra hour.

I have been trying to figure out mine. We will possibly have the ceremony at 4. It will only be about 20 min if that. The ceremony is 3 small blocks away from the reception. We were not planning a cocktail hour just maybe letting people grab a drink when they first get in the venue and then when we get in start dinner. So dinner would maybe be 5. So then dinner would be like an hour or so and then dancing until midnight or later.

Ceremony 6:30

Cocktail hour 7-8

Everyone seated/ introductions (salads already at seats) 8

Dinner served 8:30

Receptions ends at 12:30

My ceremony is at 3:30, cocktails 4-5, dinner served at 5:30. It's not set in stone, as the caterer and DOC will be adjusting as needed, but, that's th e general timeline.

Planning ceremony at 6 pm, cocktail hour from 6:30 to 7 pm, then dinner after 7 i guess, reception from 7-10. It will all be at the same venue. We will also take most our pics before the ceremony.

My timeline is identical to Joy S.'s above, although may have dinner more like 7:30/7:45. Also plan on pictures prior to the ceremony.

My ceremony is at 4. Cocktail hour is 5-6 and dinner is at 6:30

Our ceremony starts at 1pm. That's all we got so far. Our reception venue is an hour away.

Ceremony at 4(super short)

cocktail hr n reception immed. following(right down the road at hotel)

Ceremony at 2pm and completed by 2:45 and moving straight into reception with no cocktail hour. All photos will be taken before ceremony. 3pm reception starts. 4pm music and dancing starts. 7:30pm grand exit.

Ceremony starts at 6 and reception starts as soon as the ceremony wraps up.

We were going to start our at 4:00 pm, but because our ceremony is long, we are moving it up to 2:00/3:00 pm

Ceremony at 3, cocktail hour immediately following for an hour then reception approx. 6pm ... all same venue