How long typically is a wedding

Ours will be 4 hours including the ceremony

Ours is 5 hours including ceremony

Typically you'll have a 30 minute ceremony, one hour cocktail hour, and 4 hour reception. The length of the ceremony varies greatly depending on what traditions you're including.

Our wedding and reception will be at least 5 hours but our venue is set at one price for 8 hours. So if I go over that 5 hour period we're still good and dont have pay extra.

Our ceremony start time is 6pm. Our venue said we are good until 1130/12am.

Ours was from 4-10 so 6 hours total.

Mine was 4:30 to 12 so 7.5 hours for ceremony, cocktail and reception. Some vendors arrived at 10 am for set up while others arrived around 1 pm. That depends on the vendor.

Ours was ceremony at 4 pm, cocktail hour 4:30:6:00, reception 6-10 but guests started leaving around 8:30-9:00 (we just had dinner & dessert).

Our local reception was 5-10 pm (cocktail hour, dinner, cake & dancing). Several guests partied with us til closing time!

Our is—
ceremony: 5:30
cocktails/appetizers: 6-7
Reception: 7-11 (possibly extending to 12)

For us, the only reception activities we’re having are: dinner, our first dance and then open dancing and partying the rest of the night. So deciding what will take place during your reception, will help determine what amount of time you’ll need.

Ours will be from 5:30pm to 12:30am

Ceremony will be at 4, dinner at 5 (buffet style, so they can be getting their plates while we do pictures to reduce the time), first dance at 6, then just dancing/party until probably 8 (we aren't big dancers on either side). We are also doing ours on a Sunday, so planning to wrap things up around 9ish so everyone can get home for work the next day. So, it'll be a shorter wedding I guess. But I don't want it to be drawn out and us to be drained by the end of the night.

Mine is 4 hours. Half hour being the ceremony and the 3 1/2 hour dinner reception to follow. We are having an intimate dinner of 46 guest with No dj. Do Whatever you want for your wedding then determine a time frame. .

We’re having a longer than average ceremony, and we’re including in our schedule travel time from ceremony to reception, and we’re doing all formal pictures before the ceremony. All that being said, our ceremony starts around 10:30 AM and our reception starts around 12:00 PM. I say “around” because we’re giving ourselves some wiggle room with the schedule. Our reception will probably go until 2:00 PM because it’s a buffet style lunch and we don’t have dancing (neither of us are comfortable with dancing in front of people). So that’s about 3.5-4 hours

Our wedding will be a total of 5 hours! Ceremony at 4! Cocktail hour from 4:30-5:30. Dinner at 6 and dancing from 7pm to 9pm. Our venue is in myakka city so it’s pretty far for the guests. Want everyone to get home safely!

I recommend asking your venue what is typical to help you decide. Ours is 30 min ceremony and 5 hour reception so we booked people for 6 hours (4pm to 10pm).

This is pretty variable but I think 6 hours is a good ballpark. The longest wedding I was at started at noon and was more than 10 hours from start to finish, but that felt really long.

In terms of booking vendors on an hourly basis, you may find you need certain vendors longer than others. Photographers, for example, often photograph the couple and their wedding party getting ready and are on site earlier than vendors exclusively needed for events happening after the ceremony, such as bartenders or DJs. If you have live music for your ceremony and a DJ for your cocktail hour and reception, then you may need the musician for only an hour but might need your DJ for five. Some also calculate set-up and clean-up into their hourly time and some only charge the hourly rate for the time they are actually performing a service and set-up and clean-up is a separate fee or build into the service charge and not billed as extra hours.

Assuming you are having a late afternoon or early evening ceremony, with the exception of vendors you'll only be needing for a couple of hours or less (primarily vendors only needed for the ceremony, such as acoustic musicians or officiants) once you book a vendor it is really unlikely they'll be taking on multiple jobs in that day, so its usually possible to book a DJ, band, or photographer for a certain block of time and then add on hours later as you finalize your plans and schedule. You definitely should ask about that ahead of time though, and also ask if they have an overtime charge for hours added at the last minute. For example, your photographer may only charge an extra $300 for another hour of shooting when booked in advance, but if you suddenly decide during your wedding that you want your photographer to stay longer than planning, that rate may jump to $500 or $600 for that extra hour. If you have a morning or early afternoon wedding it may be more likely that your vendors have someplace to be later in the day, so they may not be as flexible and you'll have to make more effort to get the time right early on in the booking process.

We don't have our entire schedule planned out yet but have booked a photographer for 7 hours and are estimating bartenders for 5 hours if that helps.

Our ceremony was around 20 minutes long and then the reception was five hours

Ours was 6 hours, 5-11. Most weddings we go to are 5 or 6 hours start to finish.