Time of ceremony?

I’ve heard of noon weddings and think it’s absolutely possible. But, it also depends on your timeline after. When are you taking photos? When is the reception? What are your guests doing immediately after? A noon wedding is more than fine but if you want just a little cushion and room to relax and expect buffers and the unexpected in your schedule, I’d consider 1 or 2.

We are starting at 4p and ending at 1a

We’re starting at 2.

We are starting at 14:30 and having a long reception until 00:30

Our ceremony begins at 4:30 pm. Of course noon is possible if you get up early, but do you want to get up at 5 am on your wedding day?

Our wedding was at 4:30 PM. I hired a professional hair and makeup artist. We were supposed to have 1 makeup artist, 1 hair stylist and an assistant, but the assistant ended up not being able to make it because of a family emergency. The makeup artist came earlier than originally planned to help assistant with hair. We started at 8 AM. We had 9 people for hair (2 were flower girls and my grandmother just a blow out) and 5 for makeup (2 were flower girls), and 1 did her own hair and makeup. We were done by 2 PM so it took a total 6 hours. Afterwards, everyone had to get dressed and we had bridal party photos taken. Me with my bridal party and my husband with his. Then I did a first look with my dad and then a first look with my husband. If you have a lot of people getting hair and makeup done and want to take photos or do a first look before the ceremony I would probably push the start time back as you are going to have to wake up super early. I don't know about you, but I'm not a morning person neither were some of my bridesmaids. My girls came at the time assigned to them so they knew exactly when they needed to be where and could wake up at whatever time they wanted as long as they were there for their assigned time. I knew certain ones weren't morning people so I worked it out with the stylist that so bridesmaids filled the later time slots and the ones that didn't mind waking up early filled the earlier time slots.

We're starting at 3PM. I'll be getting up at 8 so I can be at the venue by 9 to start setup with my bridal party and DOC, then we'll break for breakfast/lunch and start getting ready by 11 at the latest.

I think it totally depends on how many people you have getting ready and what type of setup. Are you planning to do professional hair and makeup? Are they coming to you or are you going to a salon with multiple professionals that could get through the whole group in a timely fashion? Where do you plan to get ready?

If you don't have to travel much, and aren't doing h/m for 10 people or something, you would have plenty of time to be ready before noon.

Are you having a religious ceremony like in a church? The only time I have been in a wedding that early was for a church wedding. Even then, often times you can plan for later in the afternoon if the priest (whoever) allows. I would probably never want to be a part of an early wedding again. Figure the crack of dawn for getting up and beginning to get ready for a noon wedding! I personally refused to get up early for my wedding day so I got to my venue around 9:45 for a 4:30 ceremony time.

We had a noon ceremony and I started getting ready at 9:30. I did my own makeup but had my hair done professionally. One of my bridesmaids did her own hair and the other 3 girls’ hair, her own makeup and 2 of the other girls’ makeup (the third girl did her own makeup). Honestly, given what we were doing, it was enough time. I suppose I could’ve used an extra 30-60 minutes and it would’ve been less rushed/stressful, but that extra time to sleep was invaluable, and we made it work!

We are starting ceremony time at 2:30. I have 9 bridesmaids, myself, mom, FMIL, and 3 flower girls to get ready. We have our venue Tuesday-Sunday so we will have all of our decorating done, so the morning shouldn't feel super rushed. I chose 2:30 so we could serve dinner around 5 and leave the reception early enough to drive a couple hours to a hotel near the airport we are flying out of.

My wedding was at 5:30 p.m. My HMUA came to us and in order for everyone's hair and makeup to be done on time (7 girls) for photos (we did a first look and some photos before), I got up at 8:00 a.m. Just to put things in prospective.

Our ceremony doesn't start until 4pm, but we're doing a first look and the majority of pictures starting at 2pm, so that's when I need to be ready by. I just couldn't do it any earlier! I'm sooooooo NOT a morning person!! I'm a total crab for the first hour after waking. My family knows just to leave me alone until then! Usually I spend this first hour by myself, so as not to be crabby with people I love.

So, my plan is to get up fairly early--no later than 8am--so I can have plenty of time to have my coffee, maybe a little breakfast, before everyone gets going. I think the hair and makeup will be coming around 9am.

Think noon would be ok. I had a five pm outdoor ceremony

Our ceremony is starting at 2:30. I personally don't see an issue starting at noon if you and the wedding party are okay with waking up earlier!

If you're dead-set on noon, then like PP said, get up a little earlier. Maybe have mimosas, coffee and bagels or something light while you're all getting ready together. Pump up the jams and stick to a schedule and you should be fine!

We're getting married at 5pm so we're going to start getting the venue ready at noon, FH and groomsmen will finish up. Around 2pm my bridesmaids and I will retreat and start getting ready, because my FH and I will do a first look around 4:00, just before guests start arriving.

We're super lucky because our officiant is pretty flexible about our start time so if we're running a bit behind or if guests are late, she's OK with waiting for a bit, etc.

Start picturing your timeline and that should help you decide on the time.