Invite Time

You always put the actual ceremony time. You can mention on your wedding website or on details card to arrive promptly or before the start time. I have it under FAQ on my wedding website!

The time on my invitations will be an hour before our ceremony start time. For us its a know your crowd situation. We have a lot of culturally acceptable chronic lateness. If we throw them off by an hour they should get there on time lol. My officiant suggested that invitation time be at least a half hour before ceremony start time just in case.

I asked my officiant this same thing because I was worried that if I put "5 PM," people would be parking their cars and moseying up at 5 PM instead of in their seats. My officiant said to list the actual start time and people will be responsible enough to be seated by the ceremony start time (hopefully... )

Actual ceremony time.

I put the actual ceremony start time - people should know how to be responsible adults and get somewhere at least a few minutes before the start time for something so important. If they don't then that's on them, not me. I also would be frustrated as a guest if I arrived somewhere (probably a little early) to find out that I was actually over an hour early because they didn't use the actual time.

Hey Sara! How did you invitations turn out?