How long does a wedding ceremony list?

30 minutes, max. Methodist ceremony in a church including a unity candle ceremony.

Short and sweet - ours was 20 minutes!

I'm hoping for 30 mins max. I'd rather it be 15 but, we are planning a sand ceremony with our kids.

Whatever the time length, it should be long enough to be the focus on the day, not the cake, not the bouquet toss, not your first dance--The marriage!!

We wrote our ceremony and its 8 pages lol. Thinking about 30 mins. Or at least I hope. We have a welcome, then We are doing extras like lighting a memorial candle, asking for parents blessing, mothers last kiss before the first. That's all at the beginning. Then we go into vows, rings, kiss and prouncment. So I'm guessing around 30 mins

My goal for ours in no more than 30 minutes....

15 to 20 minutes max we are going to have kids at the wedding and i don't want some of them to get restless....maybe i should make a kids centers?

We will be lucky if we hit 5 mins 😂 Ours is going to be SUPER short!

Definitely less than 30. We are doing the normal simple ceremony. No special vows and no religious ceremonies (candle, sand,etc).

I'm not sure really. 15 to 20 minutes I think. we have a ring warming too, but everything else is pretty standard for a protestant wedding.

I would love it if ours was 15 minutes or less. Not really sure what we would like to include just yet but the shorter the better! I went to a friends weeding last fall and hers lasted all of 3 minutes!

I am not quite sure, 15-20? I want it to be sweet but not drag on forever. We are writing our own vows and doing a hand fasting but I don't expect it to take that long.

Ours was 15 minutes. Wanted it done quickly to get to the party.

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Keep this in mind, someone will have to watch them. Unless you have a separate room they can go to, kids get loud when together so you will hear them.

I think it will be about 40-45, including the processional. It’s the purpose of the entire day - it should be a little longer !

I am guessing somewhere around 15 minutes. Short and sweet!

15 minutes max - short and sweet. We are getting married shortly before sunset in a wooded valley so I need all the light I can get for photos lol

I’m hoping nothing over 40min (hopefully 30) lol I know it may be a stretch since we are doing a tree planting ceremony, writing our own vows & want to do communion (just amongst us), but I don’t want our vows to exceed 3min & we plan to keep everything else straight to the point as well.

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Hi Kristy! Wow that's awesome! What a great personal touch that you both wrote your whole ceremony too. Thanks for sharing!

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Hi April! Makes perfect sense to me Your sunset marriage will be absolutely beautiful too, I'm sure. So romantic!