How long is your reception? After party?

Mine is from 7-11 and no after party

ETA: Also the only place we would want to go is a country bar that's about 30 minutes from the venue... so we will just go to the hotel and crash.

P.S. doesn't mean you're old

My cocktail hour is from 2-3 and the reception is 3-7 with no after party. 12 hours for a reception seems exhausting

That seems really long to me. Lol. Ours is 5-10:30PM with an after party at the hotel bar.

Wow! That's a long night. I wouldn't make it haha. Ours is from 6-10. We have family and friends staying at a hotel near the reception venue and if we're not exhausted, we may go out with everyone for a little bit, but there isn't an official after party.

Maybe it's customary in their country to keep a wedding reception going until nearly dawn, but for most Americans, this is a ridiculous timeline. My guess is that a lot of your guests will leave when they've been trained to leave (between 10:00 and 11:00 PM -- pursuant to the weddings they've been to in the past), or half of the room will fall asleep on the tables.

Nope. I wouldn't sign on for this. You want to leave your guests wanting more, not a whole lot less.

Mine is 8:30pm-12:30am. There is a hotel next door that the banquet manager said most go to after for an after-party at their sports bar, but I think we'll be too tired.

Ceremony at 5, reception ends at 10. There is a block party near our venue, so we may head over there for an after party.

Your wedding is IN Columbia though isn't it?

Mine is 6:30-11 and I thought that was good....

I can't imagine a wedding going on till 3am!!!

If your wedding is in Colombia the way you've said, I would go with the local customs I suppose. Although I'd have to pack a lot of 5 hour energy shots to be there that late.

I think it's a cultural thing. My family is Hispanic, we party late (yes, even 80 year old grandma.) Which is why when our 4hr reception is over, at 8pm we will have an after party.

If your norms (and your family's) aren't to stay up/party that late though, you wouldn't want to make your family uncomfortable SO I suggest a happy medium of a responsible ending time for your reception and then an optional after party. This way if your family want to leav rafter they can, and won't feel like they're leaving your wedding wary, and your FH's family can continue party and won't feel like it ended too early.

We are getting married over a holiday weekend on a Sunday and most of our guest will be off work the day after... Our venue is slowing us to go until 1:00am I think that is plenty of time.

As a colombian, yes we party and we do it all night long. If you are getting married in Colombia, 1) I'm soooo jealous since that's what I wanted but couldn't 2) you should definitely consider moving the ceremony to a later time so that sticking around until 2 or 3am is not so hard for your other guest.

If you are getting married in the US, end the reception at 12 and try to plan and after party for those who want to keep going.

Our reception is 6 hours 6-midnight

We are doing cocktails at 6 and reception done at midnight. I am going to have beer and pizza at the hotel in case anyone wants to keep going

Ceremony at 4 cocktails following. Reception started at 6 and we partied till 2am then there was an after party.

I just asked my parents about this and they've never heard of it, though partying late is common for us, so it must be cultural and regional. I've also seen it done where the couple has a bunch of fun party props.

If you're getting married in Columbia, then I would plan to go with the cultural norms of the family.

Wow!! I don't think I would be able to make it that long. Our cocktail hour is from 6-7 and reception is from 7-10. We are still debating if we will do an after party or not.

6-11. The ceremony is at 5:30. After party isnt really official or anything.. its whenever people get sick of hanging out in the vacation rental's pool.

FH's family is polish. In poland, weddings are 2 day long affairs, with like.. dozens of courses worth of food and a reception that ends at 4 in the morning, to be repeated the next evening. .... not gonna happen. but if we were getting married in poland, i think we would go with the polish traditions.

Our reception will be from 4:30pm-11:30pm.