HELP! Day Of Timeline! Is this too early for dinner?

I don't think it is too early. If I am at your wedding by 2. I will probably just have eaten lunch. So by 5pm and I ready to eat! Only suggestion for a later dinner would be a cocktail hour of some sort with just passed foods. something light

You could also do mother groom and father daughter dances to fill the time. But I don't think it's too early.. but maybe that's because I never go that long without food anyway haha no one will be upset with eating unless it comes later than expected

5pm is an okay time for dinner. I'm not sure that you'd want the reception to go until 9pm though. After dinner, I'd say maybe another 2 hours of wedding would be enough for me.

I think 5 pm is perfectly fine. I agree NOT to move the ceremony time back. I think it takes longer to move from one aspect to the next anyway, so your timing looks good to me.

You are all making me feel better! Almost! @A.L. haha...is 3 hours of dancing and reception to long??? We have a good amount of OOT guests and we wanted to get the change to see and talk to everyone...

I mean, 3 hours after dinner would be too long for me. Dinner usually doesn't happen at the very beginning of the reception, but some time into it.

I would love to go to a wedding where they start dinner at 5!!! I've been to weddings where it was 8 or later and I start eating every mint in my purse!!!!!!! It's fine!!!

Given how early your wedding is, I think 5PM dinner is perfect. I would likely eat a light lunch and be starving if you had it much later than that! I also think your planner is an ass...just saying. You don't deliberately make people who have come to celebrate your union wait for no good reason. Stick to your gut - you are doing the right thing.

We are in a similar boat.....

Consider moving your ceremony back an hour.

Another thing we are doing is toast and blessing after the first dance.

5pm is great!

We are having the ceremony at 3 and dinner will be at 5. Due to our number we told our venue we want 1.5 hrs for dinner.

@A.L fair enough! I appreciate your advice Thanks everyone! I did not think 5pm was bad and my wedding planner made me panic!

5pm is when I'm having dinner.

I think it's fine; two of my biggest venues only start with a ceremony at 3:30 (noise ordinances) so that make dinner between 5:00 and 5:30. It's fine.

I'd be happy with eating dinner at 5 PM.

My ceremony starts at 3:30 cocktail hour is from 4 to 5 then dinner at 515pm. Our reception also ends at 9 and I was worried it was too early to end however, we are going on our honeymoon bright and early the next day and so that works fine! :+)

I'm always ready for my next meal, it's never too early. #weddingdietstartstomorrow

I say your dinner time is fine, but don't wait on your ceremony, it just makes it look late!!!! FHs sister's wedding started about 20 minutes late because they were taking pictures and it made people impatient and even mad sitting there waiting that long, especially considering most people show up early planning to be ready and seated by the time on your invite.

I don't think that's too early. The one think I am going to say is this turns into a really long day for you and your guests. A friends wedding last October was literally this exact timeline and their reception ended at 11 and when you get there at 130/2 for the ceremony, it's far too long of a day for everyone. Your guests absolutely don't have to stay all night, but at our friends wedding most did.

Our total time from ceremony to end of reception I think is 5.5 hours. I know you said it's only going until 9, but getting to 7 hours is still a bit much