Freaking out about ceremony time

Girl.. your 10 days away. Your time is fine and you can't change it now anyways, just stick with it and i'm sure your wedding day will be nothing but amazing!

Weddings that start at 2 pm are usually just cake and punch in the church hall. If you're serving dinner, they are much later. The only question is whether you can do your decorating beforehand, or won't be able to start decorating until 6. If it's the latter, your wedding is going to be relatively short, but doable. You'd likely decorate from 6-7, start the ceremony at 7, then start the reception at 7:30. The reception would then run from 7:30 to 9:30 or 10, to allow time to clean up afterward.

If you can decorate before 6 and clean up after 10:30, the schedule will be even easier. You start the ceremony at 6, and the reception at 6:30, which allows people to eat dinner relatively early and allows you time for a four-hour reception.

I think you're totally fine. My ceremony wont start until 6!

I think you're totally fine - my ceremony is starting at 5:30, and the reception goes until 11.

I think you're fine! My wedding is starting at 3, dinner will start at 5, and reception will end at 9. I wish I could've started mine later, but our wedding is in central time and a lot of guests will be driving back to my hometown (2 1/2 hours away) in eastern time after the wedding so I just wanted them to not get home past midnight.

Your time is more than fine given the hours you are allotted! Parties that end later are way more fun than a party over at 8:30. I think it's great timing for a summer wedding. Don't stress!

This is perfect timing - stop second guessing yourself!!

My ceremony is about 4:30, then we're shutting down the DJ about 10 or so. Transport bus is taking their last trip to bring everyone back to their cars about 11 so everyone can get back to their hotels and I can be (hopefully) in bed by midnight so I can get up and make the thank you brunch in the morning.

I had a 6pm Ceremony time followed by cocktail hour and dinner a 8pm dancing until 12pm. My dance floor was packed until they played the last song and out of my 98 attendees maybe 20 left by 1030 or so because they had to work the next day. Not only was my wedding on a Sunday but it also was kid free so I let me guests know right when we made these decisions. Out of our 101 invitees we had 98 show and about 75 stay until the very end. It's a know your crowd thing.