Ceremony start time

We put 12:00 as our ceremony start time. Unfortunately, our HMU artist got caught in traffic and arrived late, so we weren't ready until 12:30. The good news is, the friend who was doing the video captured some hilarious video footage of the conversations as our guests were waiting.

Our start time is also 3:30! I'm planning on starting at 3:40 at the very latest, but will have my day-of-coordinator check to see if seats are filled before then. Don't want to make the early birds who already showed up twenty minutes early wait too long!

Planning on starting right at the listed time, maybe 2-3 minutes later. I am a punctual person and will not punish the ones that have been there early.

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This is how I feel exactly. We aren't starting until 4pm, so if you can't get your butt into a seat by that time, you're going to miss some of it. I will have been up since early that morning, so I'm not starting late!! Tardiness is one of my biggest pet peeves, and I won't tolerate it on my wedding day. I mean, I can only control myself, so if people are late, they are late. But I'm not delaying the start of my wedding to accommodate people who can't be respectful enough to show up on time.

Ours is 1:15 but I think we will start at 1:20 ish.

I'm fascinated by the comments. I am the type that is paranoid everyone would still be bustling around when I came out, so I'd think to intentionally wait 15 minutes too. 5 Minutes to me just doesn't seem long enough, but that's just me.

Put down the time you mean to start, with only a five minute cushion . A lot of people plan to be there a full half hour early, and are, and you are punishing all the pro pt people to allow a cushion for others. Not polite. General parties start late, not weddings. I have rarely been in or to a wedding where more than a few people arrived late, and no amount of cushion would have helped a group stuck 3 hours behind an accident, or a doctor runnindg late ( whose family was 1/2 hour early, seated. )
. . . Most weddings we go to list "seating will begin at 2:30, and the ceremony will start at 3 ." And on website or information sheets, if there are any, it says "Seating will begin at 2:30, and and the doors will be closed when the ceremony starts at 3 pm. Latecomers will please wait outside until doors are opened at the end of the ceremony." People now know the window of time. Those being good, making the effort, will not plan in what turns out to be an extra half hour or more, and people who drag their feet have a deadline, or know they will stand outside where the see people exit the church and leave for wherever the reception is held . Do not just plan on a lot of guests being sent disrespectful that they cannot act like adults, and plan their time. They get to work, they arrive at social occasions on time, or it is their problem. Do not make it everyone's problem . Not fair.

We put the exact time, and on our wedding website it lists that seating begins at x time. Everyone in my circle know to arrive no less than 10 minutes prior to the invite time