Friday wedding schedule

Sunday bride. Ceremony at 5, cocktails at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, cake at 7, I kick everyone out at 8 and FH and I spend the evening alone. Perfection.

I'm a friday bride as well! We are starting our ceremony at 5:30, cocktails at 6, reception beginning at 7. We gave people plenty of advanced notice and we are having a small(er) wedding of ~100 people.

This is our schedule:

6:00 ceremony

6:30 - 7:30 cocktail hour

7:30 intros, dances

8:00 dinner

I really don't think 8:00 is too late for a weekend dinner. Especially since people will already be eating at the cocktail hour.

We are doing a Friday and it's at 630pm, apps/cocktail hour immediately after while we do pics then dinner following after bridal party intros. I eat dinner super early so it was tough to choose this schedule but we loved the venue enough so it was worth it

My schedule is similar to others on here.

6:00 Ceremony

6:30 - 7:30 cocktail hour

7:45 dinner

I don't think 8pm is too late for dinner. People will be also have appetizers at cocktail hour.

We are having a Friday wedding and starting our ceremony at 5. Expecting it to be about a half hour. Cocktail hour at 545-645. Hoping to have dinner at about 715-730.

I don't think 8:00 is too late for dinner. I've heard of people who had wedding dinners at 10:00pm. That's late.

Friday bride here!

Our ceremony is at 5pm, which will only be about 15 minutes long.

Dinner- 6pm

Toasts- 7pm

Cake Cutting: 7:30pm

First Dances: 8pm

Garter/Bouquet: 8:30-9pm

And then it's party time! Times are approximate, but we're skipping a cocktail hour and doing all photos before the ceremony to save time.

Another Friday night bride.

Ceremony 6:00-7:00

Reception will be in another location and will start as soon as people arrive. Food will be waiting.

After final ceremony pictures for wedding party, I'm assuming we'll arrive at the reception at 7:30.

We had a Friday wedding with the ceremony starting at 5pm. Cocktail hour 5:30-6:30. Dinner started at 7. I don't think anyone was late and people didn't have an issue. I love Friday weddings, actually more than Saturday weddings. I still have my weekend to myself and I don't mind taking a day off or leaving work early for a wedding. I know not everyone has that option but its fun.

I'm planning a Friday ceremony (in October in MI) too and my fiance and I are still trying to figure out what time we want to start the ceremony! We don't want people to have to miss too much of the work day, but we want to enjoy the sunshine before it gets cold...

My cousin got married on a Friday and she did the schedule just like a Saturday- I think the ceremony was at 4-ish. Everyone just took off. Our whole family was OOT anyway and their friends and her husbands family just took the day off. It worked for them, but won't for everyone.

Are most of your guests local? If they're OOT they're going to have to take off anyway. If they're local I like the idea of an early cocktail hour then the ceremony then dinner if you're worried about it, but honestly 8pm for a weekend dinner really isn't that crazy. Maybe include a more substantial app or two in your cocktail hour.