Sunday wedding end time

If the majority of your guests are part of an older crowd, I'd go with the earlier time. I'm part of an older crowd myself, and the earlier things end, the easier it is. Especially on a Sunday night, when most people will have to get up early to go to work the next day.

My wedding is on a Sunday and we are ending at eight

What about 4 pm-9 pm? That seems like plenty of time. I’d probably serve cake at 8 pm so older folks and parents of young kids can leave after.

4 to 10. Good luck!

We had a Sunday wedding 3-9. 95% of guest left by 7:30. And this wasn’t even all a super old crowd.

I’m not part of the older crowd but I would still prefer 3-9. I usually start getting ready for bed at 10 and I’m in bed around 10:30 for work in the morning.

I’m also having a Sunday wedding with a lot of out of town guests. We’re having a 5 hour wedding from 4 to 9pm.

OKAY I just attended a wedding last Sunday and it was an 11:30 am ceremony, cocktail hour to follow and the reception ended at 5 pm. Personally we LOVED that it was so early because we had to work the next day and it was a 7 hour drive!!! Out of town guests will appreciate an early time for a Sunday wedding.

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I love the idea of an 11:30 wedding! The brunch reception sounds nice too. Very springy!

12pm to 6pm (or 1pm -7pm at the latest) because it’s a Sunday and you said that your crowd is older and from out-of-town. So 7pm is a good end time.

My sister got married in July 2019. She had her wedding 12-5 and people were leaving by 4pm. A lot of people didn’t come they said it’s hard with having work the next day. My sister was super bummed people left early and some didn’t come at all. I’d say the earlier the better for a Sunday wedding

I forgot to add my sister is 28 and her crowd was mostly younger crowd of people in their ‘mid to late twenties.

Can you even do 1-7 or 2-8? I think those slots are better. Unfortunately, Sunday’s are tricky because everyone is preparing for the dreaded Monday and they’re older and out of town. I think anything after 7 might push it considering travel times and just a moment to have Sunday to yourself.

We're having our Sunday wedding from 3-8

I think that ending at 9 might even be a little late for a Sunday wedding. Especially if your guests are out of town and/or older.

I'd do end at 9

Personally I would feel as a guest that an 8 or 9 end time may be too late on a Sunday. If you feel like out of town guests will be staying the night they may be up for staying that late, but the “older crowd” may also feel that’s too late. I would think a noon or 1pm start time would be great, you’ll have ceremony first anyways, so perhaps 1-7 would be good, a slightly early dinner but still a reasonable time for a Sunday in my books!

Thanks everyone. We are not considering brunch time wedding but all of you other feedback are valuable. The guests from out of town are older but also they don't work on Monday because they are traveling. My local friends are more of party animal crowds that tend to dance until 11 or 1am even on weekdays (salsa dancers) and go straight to work, so I am definitely caught in between

I would do 3-9!

My Sunday wedding will be from 4-10. It's during the holidays, so no one needs to go home early for work. Most are travelling and on vacation so they're ready to stick around. And even though most of my guests are an older crowd, they like to party.

Have you thought about an after party? You could do the 3-9 wedding (or earlier) to cater to the older crowd/ensure people stay til the end, and then go out after and keep on partying for those that want to.

Personally I think that since your out-of-town guests are travelling, they don't care too much about getting to bed early. It's a wedding; they'll make the exception to stay up a little later.