How short is a short ceremony

Walking down the aisle and doing vows/rings etc. takes hardly any time at all - it also depends on how many people you have walking down the aisle, too, but my cousin's wedding was no more than 10 minutes. Whatever you want to do is acceptable as long as you have the needed components of a marriage ceremony for your state!

Is your officiant planning on saying a little something? Our ceremony is probably going to be less than 10 minutes. Short, sweet, and to the point! Make yours however long or short you want.

My officiant is kinda my uncle I guess lol (grandma's boyfriend son) and I don't really want him to say anything the whole everything will be wrapped up into a 4 to 5 hour event

I want short and sweet also! I see ours lasting 15-20 minutes, from the time everybody starts walking down the aisle, to when we kiss! Unless it's for religious reasons, I don't see why anyone would want a super long ceremony.

My fh and I are not religious were both okay with short and sweet but I didn't want my guests to be disappointed

Again, going off of my cousin's wedding last summer - I don't think guests are disappointed at a short ceremony, but if it is truly just an impersonal walk, say vows, exchange rings, kiss, and you're done sort of thing, I don't think the ceremony will necessarily be the highlight - your reception will. My cousin's officiant was kind of hard to hear (I think he had a microphone, but he didn't talk very clearly) and it was super short. She wanted to get to the reception. I will say that I called her and gushed to her about my officiant and how we are having a more unique ceremony that will likely include a ring warming and some other nontraditional stuff, and she said that was one of her only regrets - she wished she had picked a better officiant and made it a little more about the wedding as opposed to the reception.

EDIT: I will say that I also believe our ceremony will be no more than 30 minutes, but you can include special things and still have it be more than a basic ceremony - it doesn't take long to add a little.

The shortest and the sweetest could take all of nine minutes, from processional to recessional. Take a little more time -- maybe 12 or 13 minutes. Nine minutes will fly by, but 13 minutes will feel like it's time to put a period on this and move on (if you really want the abbreviated ceremony). Don't deprive yourself of the sweetest part of the day.

I want a super sweet and really nice very touching ceremony were writing our own vows I think (I know I want to)

Ours was less than 5 minutes for sure. We had no frills, just what was legally required to get it done... just how I wanted it.

First of all, it's an aisle. All you really have to do, in a non church ceremony, is say you're there freely, agree to some vows and get pronounced. Four minutes. You can absolutely do that. But there is nothing touching about that.

If that's what you want, then do it privately first; people coming to a ceremony expect to see a ceremony. They want to feel inspired, they want to feel like part of the community, they want to laugh and cry, and you have the opportunity to do that. Not that ANYONE wants something long (and no one has ever complained that that my ceremonies are too short.....)

My ceremonies are usually between 18-22 minutes, depending on whether they include a love story or not. There is usually a welcome, a reading or two (non religious) possibly a remembrance, mention of the moms, vows, rings, unity ritual (like sand/glass/chocolate) and the pronouncement.

I can do a wedding in 1 minute:

Joelle's FH, do you take Joelle as your wife?

Joelle, do you take FH as your husband?

I now pronounce you married.

(rings are not required)

But, guests would be disappointed -- especially if they traveled any distance to be there. You don't want them to sneeze and miss the whole thing!

Mine was 15-25 minutes and at the same place as my reception. If they're at different places please have it a little longer.

Do you have anyone else you want to get a special shoutout on the day who didn't? All my siblings were in the bridal party, my dad walked me down/dad and daughter dance, so i wanted my mom to do a short little reading. It wasn't biblical but it was nice, almost like a toast but at the ceremony.

Mine took 7 minutes from when my dad shook Hs hand to our kiss. It was awesome. Maybe an additional 5 minutes for the girls to walk down and us to walk back out.