How much time between your ceremony and reception?

I'm having a two hour break. I've found it's really hard to explain this gap on ww to other brides who are not in the same situation. Do what you have to do, take your guests comfort into consideration but at the end iof the day remember they are adults and will have a great time at your reception, especially because of Free drinks, dinner, and everything else you have planned for them

I think it depends on the situation. Ours is going to be an hour and a half to two and a half hours long depending on what our guests decide they want to do. We are having two ceremonies so our ceremony time slot is an hour and a half. If people don't want to see the second ceremony then they'll have to wait from 4:30 to 7 for our reception (5:30 is cocktail hour). If they DO want to see the Thai ceremony, it'll end when the cocktail hour starts. Ours is all at the same venue (a hotel), so if they have a room there, they can just go wait in their room until the next event.

Hope your father is feeling better!

We haven't figured this out yet, but our reception will be an hour from our ceremony venue. So at least an hour! I agree, it's rude to have a long intermission between, without giving your guests something to do.

Our ceremony is at 3:30 and we estimate it will take 30-45 minutes. Cocktail "hour" is from 4:30 to 6:00, dinner is at 6:00.

Depends on how far away the ceremony and reception venues are or if they are in the same place. if they are relatively close or at the same location, i'd say that's definitely too long.

we are having a cocktail hour. long enough for us to finish up the rest of our photos that we weren't able to take before the ceremony but no longer than an hour.

I will be honest - I 100% of the time decline invites that have a gap of more than an hour, even if it is because of ceremony reasons, so I definitely think 2 hours is too long. But whomever on here said that they are taking a 3 hour gap to take pictures, please reconsider.

How about having a 2 hour long cocktail hour? Just please don't leave your guests with nothing to do.

Our break is about an hour to an hour and a half and though I feel bad, pictures are important to us and we have a big immediate family and bridal party so we need as much time as we can get.

My break was 0 minutes. People walked from the ceremony room over to the reception room where the cocktail hour started, which lead into dinner.

I think the gap should be the amount of time it takes to get from the ceremony to the reception location. Unless it is a destination wedding for everyone attending, in which case any gap is ok because the guests will go off together back to their hotel and do stuff together.

We are having the reception and ceremony at the same location so directly after, we are doing pictures with the family and everyone else will be at coctail hour

This is my first wedding n i wanna make sure everything goes pefect and that im making enough time so im not having to rush. my wedding starts at 4:00pm and the reception will follow after the ceremony which is In the same place im getting married i wanna know would i have enough time to have the ceremony,do pictures and have the reception with first dance cake cutting eating etc... all in 2 or 3 hours ???