How many hours are you renting your venue for the ceremony and reception?

First, cleaning up sucks. I strongly suggest hiring a cleanup crew so that you and your family and friends don't need to do it. It totally kills the party.

As far as how long it takes, that depends on how many people are attending your wedding, how much decor you are bringing in, and how many people are cleaning.

You can always ask the venue if they would let you clean up the next morning, assuming they don't get booked on that date.

My wedding is going to be around that same time frame. My wedding planner told me probably 7-8 hours. Also, it depends on your location, if the location sets up chairs and tables for you, as well as, takes them now and how many decorations you are having. My location does set up a little and takes down. I hope that helps a little.

Please hire someone to do the cleanup. Don't do it yourself and don't make your guests do it. My brother and his wife didn't have anyone designated to clean up after their wedding, his wife's (local) family were nowhere to be found post-reception, leaving his (out of town) family to clean up everything. It was awful. My dad still bitches about it going on 15 years later.

Our venue (ceremony and reception) give us 9 hours. 2 hours of set up and 1 hour of clean up are in those 9 hours.

We have access to our venue the night before to store anything we need to and then the entire next day for the wedding as well as the day after so we can leave stuff locked up overnight and not have to worry about packing up all the gifts that night and the set up and clean up crew deal with everything else.

I would say you need about 9-10 hours...2 hours to set up, 5 hours for cocktail and reception, 1-2 hours for clean up and the extra hour just in case you get off schedule or run behind.

I think we have ours for like 12 hours, and the venue handles set up and tear down. If you don't want to hire someone to do cleanup, maybe you can rent it for another couple hours the next day if there's not another event going on.

We have 12 hours the day off, unless we pay for more time at $250 per hour, which I might have to do because I really want to get ready there!

ETA: definitely agree with hiring a cleanup crew. I wouldn't want my family/friends (or me and FH) to worry about working after the wedding. I would consult the crew to get their idea of how long cleanup takes for the size of wedding that you are having.

We had our ceremony venue for 3.5 hours which was not enough, and reception I think we used four hours. I would say 9 or 10 hours if you're doing both in the same place, but if it's not crazy prices I would do all day.

Have you asked what their all day price is? I was looking at an hourly venue that was $100/hour but if you went all day it was only $600 for the entire day. Granted, this was a very affordable place.

My venue has its own clean up crew, if you have a DOC maybe they can do it.

Great idea @FutureMrsB. I didn't think to ask for an all day price.

We have 16 hours at our venue. Probably only 5 of that will be ceremony and reception. We just have to be out by 2am.

We have our venue officially for 7 hrs. but they allow our caterer to setup an hour and a half before my paying time.

We are looking at something along the lines of:

10a-11:15a getting ready

11:30a-12p ceremony

12p-1p cocktail hour/ pictures

1p-4:15p reception

ETA: 4:15p-5p caterer breakdown/ cleans up

We have the venue from 8am-12am. My wedding ceremony will start at 6pm. My reception is supposed to end around 11pm to allow one hour for clean up

I have from 10-3 I think and then they clean up/set up for us. We are doing Sunday brunch, and was worried about the time but think it will work!

We have the ceremony space for 30 minutes and I think 2 hours for setup. We have the reception space for 5 hours and I think a 2 hour setup...I'm not sure about that one.

8hrs

We have ours for 7 hours total. 5 hours for the actual event, 2 hours for set-up.

We have it for 24 hrs. Midnight to Midnight.

So we can go set up in morning,

get ready,

get married,

party,

and then we have 2 janitorial people to do clean up and the venue people will put away tables and chairs we are renting from them.