Ceremony time on invitation..help!

No one is fooled by 15 minutes.

Hey, I"m a fan of starting on time; if YOU"RE prepared to start at the same time as the invite says, go for it.

But I've seen it like twice.

Change it to the correct time. I've never seen a wedding start more than five minutes late. I'd be pissed if I sat around for 45 minutes waiting for a ceremony to start.

Leave it, I'm doing the same thing only because I have a morning wedding and the people I will be inviting is always late, even for breakfast. P.S. Drinks, finger foods, and music will be available while they waiting

Change it. We were just at a wedding this weekend and one of the biggest complaints was how late it started- and they only started fifteen minutes after the stated ceremony start time!

Put the actual time. As a punctual person the wrong time for a wedding drives me bonkers and wastes my time

Put the actual time. I would be pissed if I got there early (usually I try to be 15 minutes early) and had to wait an extra half hour.

Change it. If people can't get themselves together to be on time, that's their problem. Don't punish everyone else who showed up on time/early.

I asked my wedding coordinator if I should put 5:30pm as the start time because that is when it is scheduled for. He told me to put 5:00pm on the invites...could be because there's going to be butlered champagne served at 5:15pm (not my idea)

We put 30 mins early

Just listened to this in the Emily Post podcast! It is totally acceptable to put the invite time 30 minutes before your actual start time. Although EP did mention that standard etiquette calls for guests to show up 30 minutes before start time.

My wedding starts at 3 o'clock, our Pastor must be done with the ceremony by 3:30 p.m. because of other appointments, so he basically told us that we need to start at 3 o'clock on the dot regardless if people are running late. So, we're going to put 2:30 on our invitations, that's in anticipation of my family that seems to always run late.

Oh yeah, we are going to put a small table with lemonade and pastries right outside in the lobby of the church which will help with be very early guests.