How long is your reception?

Our ceremony time was 4. Cocktail hour from 4:30 to 5:30. Dinner started at 6. This worked out perfectly because sunset photos were right after we finished eating.

I'm trying to decide if I want to do 430 to 1030 or 5 to 11.

I would personally choose 4:30 - 10:30!

Ours started at 6 and ended at 11

For us we did our ceremony at 5:30 with the reception 6-10:30. We ended up leaving at 10 because we were tired and a lot of guests had left so it worked out well.

4:30 until midnight is a long day, I think you’ll have a lot of people leaving earlier than you want. We are going 5 pre wedding cocktail, 5:30 ceremony and cocktail hour starting right after at 5:50-6pm at the latest and then our reception goes until 11:30. If you want to start at 4:30 I would think about ending earlier. Are you guys paying by the hour? We had 5 hours to start when we wanted and end before 1am, and we added the additional half hour before our ceremony.

View Quoted Comment We just paid a flat rate to have the venue from 8 am to midnight on wedding day. I think I'm gonna go with 430 to 1030.

I think a typical reception lasts 5 hours. 1 hour for cocktail hour and then 4 hours for dinner and dancing.

Our reception was supposed to go from 5-9 we left at 8:45 and most of our guests were already gone. We had a cocktail hr from 3:45-5 ceremony at 2:30

Ceremony time to end of reception is 5-10

Our reception will be five hours.

Our ceremony was 5-5:30, cocktail hour 5:30-6:30, reception 6:30-11:00 PM!