Sunday weddings how late ?

We are having a ceremony at 5:30pm, with a reception from 7-11. I don't think a lot of our guests are going to go to work on the the next morning (since many are coming from out of town), but I don't think we're going to have an after-party either.

I don't think planning on later than midnight on Sunday is going to work for most folks.

I'm doing a Sunday ceremony at 5 and reception from 6-11.

If I had to work the next day, I would likely leave around 9pm unless it was a family member or my best friend.

My Sunday ceremony is at 2pm and my reception starts at 3:30 and will go to 9... I figured we will have an after party somewhere. My wedding is on Columbus day weekend so a lot of people have Monday off.

Ceremony will start at 3 and reception ends at 10.

Honestly? I think most guests, if local, will leave early. Especially if they had to get a babysitter, who probably does have to go to school or work the next morning even if the guests don't. We're having a Sunday wedding, at 5 pm, and we expect most guests will leave by 9 pm.

I doubt many guests will stay into the early morning hours if they work the next day. I don't know many people who would miss work for a Sunday wedding. This is one of the prices you pay for a Sunday package.

The latest I would stay is 9 or 10 pm

More than likely local people aren't calling off work for a wedding. I would have folks out of there before 8pm.

Any later is way too late for me, I would be exhausted the next day. Just my opinion.

I depends how many are traveling and how far too. We are doing a Sunday long weekend so everyone has Monday off. Surprisingly the price is the same as all Sundays so we got lucky.

I would say if I were in town and no more than say 1hr drive away, I might stay until 10-11pm if having fun.

Sunday evening for me... Ceremony begins at 6pm, reception ends at 11pm. We will probably have a small "after-party" at the hotel with beer and pizza.

I would love to do it a Sunday on a holiday weekend . But it will be an additional charge for a holiday weekend . My people love to party and have fun. I would hate to be that wedding that everyone sideeyez about .

Our Sunday wedding is on a holiday weekend. Ceremony is at 4:00, reception till 9:30ish.

If you really want your Sunday reception to last into the early hours of Monday morning, you'll be relying on the fact that a majority of your guests are staying in a hotel/motel and have taken the next day off of work. Your close family members may actually do that. Local people? Probably not so much. So, ask yourself, what's the percentage of people who are bunking down for the night and leaving for home the next day vs. the percentage of people who will be looking at their watches at 8:30 PM and giving each other the "hey, we have work tomorrow and the kids have school" look.

I love the idea of a Sunday wedding. I can think of no lovelier way to spend the afternoon to early evening hours. After all, it's a free day -- a day off for most of us, and since when has the weekend and partying been relegated to Saturdays only?

I'd suggest you plan your ceremony for 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Once the ceremony is over, go right into cocktail hour. That will bring you to 1:45 or 2:45. At 2:45 or 3:45 (depending on when you started the wedding), everyone heads into the reception. You could have a beautiful evening wedding reception with all of the traditions, a dinner time meal, and be saying goodnight around 9:00/10:00 PM (although, as I said, I'd go for the earlier time frame to keep a majority of your guests at the reception).

If you want to keep partying into the early morning hours, move your party to another venue. I know what your dreams are, but go back to the beginning. Saturday evening weddings have a premium price tag attached to them -- and that price tag buys you a wedding that can start at 7:00 to 8:00 PM with a reception that goes until after midnight. Sunday weddings are less expensive for a reason, and one of the main reasons is the big one -- the one you're trying to work around. But, I repeat, you can have a fabulous wedding on a Sunday -- and...food for thought..never underestimate how exhausted you might be by 9:00 PM. You will, by that time, have been "on" for days. Escaping to a bridal suite, soaking in a Jacuzzi, and doing what comes naturally -- whether it's sex or sleep -- may be exactly what you'll be longing for.

Mine is a Sunday. Ceremony at 4. I plan on being done at 8:30 at the latest. It's also a 1.5 hour drive for almost everyone.

Ours starts at 1 pm and ends at 7. It's a non holiday but everyone is local so they will probably stay most of the night.

If I had to work the next morning, I would want to be home by 11:30ish. So how late I would stay would depend on how far I had to travel to get home again.

And honestly, if I had to travel more than 90 minutes or so, I probably wouldn't go to a Sunday evening wedding, unless I were close enough to the couple that I'd take Monday off from work.

Our wedding is on a Sunday, but will be over by around 8. We can always extend it if we want the day, but I am sure we will all go out drinking / celebrating elsewhere around town. It's a DW so I want people to experience the town as well.

You know your crowd. My friends and family don't really have young children to get home to, so when we had our engagement party it started at 5pm. It was scheduled to end at 9. People were having such a good time they didn't leave until 11pm!! So I think it depends on your crowd. Many of my friends and family stated they didn't go to work the next day.

If I went to a Sunday wedding I would leave around 9. I hate being up late the day before work. I don't know that a Sunday wedding will go into the early hours of the morning like you'd mentioned.

If I had to travel for a Sunday wedding I probably just wouldn't go.