How long did you book your venue for?

That seems like it will really be pushing it. We had access to venue from 10am until midnight. Ceremony can be short but what type of reception are you considering having in such a short time?

How much do you have to set up and tear down?

Haven't gotten that far :/

Mine is 5 hours including the cocktail hour and ceremony but I don't need a setup and breakdown, the venue does that.

I think you can make it work if you schedule your stuff accordingly and make sure you have people on hand to help you transition your night. If you don't have a day of planner then get a family member who is REALLY organized and go over the schedule with them.

We have to do everything in that 6 hours. which means I'm guessing an hour for set up, hour for take down and 4 for the ceremony and reception.

I think you should research other venues. Some don't charge per hour or include more time for set up and knock down in their fee.

We have, but this is the one we want. It's the ONLY one we want actually. We've had appts with EVERY venue here and even a couple that were 2 hours a way. This is the one.

We only had the DJ, florist, and a DOC with a few items and they managed to set up during the cocktail hour. But they all set up the ceremony site before that. However, those are relatively minor items, we didn't have anything big. An hour should be enough but for a very simple set up. Also, you cannot count on your WP to help with that.

That is not a lot of time at all!!!

We have ours for 12 hours and that is tight! Guests will be there for 4-5 hours and I assume take down will take 1-2 hours and set-up 4-5 hours...

I would try and negotiate longer...

Good luck!

Ours is 5 hours, including cocktail, ceremony and reception. Our venue is setting up everything before hand and taken down from them afterwards.

Yeah thats a liitle tight and you are going to be really over whemled with it i would try and ask for extra 2 hours or more if you can

It depends on the size of your wedding, extent of your decorations, and the amount of help you have... but setting up a wedding in one hour is very difficult. It took a few hours to set up for weddings for work, and that was with a full staff.

You have to consider setting up tables/chairs, linens, place settings, centerpieces, auxillary decorations, buffet lines, cake/gift tables, the ceremony site..... It would be very, very difficult.

Plus the timing will affect your pictures, where the bridal party gets ready, how long vendors have to set up...etc.

Another concern is that a venue booking by the hour can schedule an event right before yours. If anything goes wrong with the first event, that cuts into your set-up time. If the earlier party doesn't clean up, you'll have to. If their caterer is late and the event goes long... You lose time.

Plus, you would have to have someone else set up the event because you (the bride) and the bridal party would be getting ready for the wedding.

6 hours for everything is far from ideal.

Our reception was 5-10, they set up and tore down for us..Also we were able to set up our decor for the reception the day before which was nice. :-) Maybe have some family members, parents, BMs, whatever set up before..really the day of isn't ideal to be rushing around setting up things for reception and ceremony..especially if you are doing first look pics earlier in the day.

We cannot get it any longer, it's a city venue. they're assholes.

We have our venue for 5 hours. That includes set up and clean up (and we are responsible for clean up). We are allowing one hour for set up of the reception hall (not decorating the chapel) and one hour to clean up the reception hall. The ceremony will only last 30 mins TOPS and that gives at least 2hrs for the reception, with 30-45 mins for us to do pictures in between. No, its not a lot of time but if you organize everything you can pull it off!