Venue

Our entire event was 6 hours. 30 minute ceremony followed by cocktail hour, then dinner and dancing.

Our event was 6 hours. Ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception. But we had the venue for the whole day to get ready and hang out before the ceremony.

Our actual event was 7.5 hours. Setup and teardown were outside that window, since we had the ceremony and reception venue for the entire day.

The wedding I went to a few months ago was a total of about 13-14 hours (getting ready at about 9AM, photos, ceremony followed by cocktail hour, reception and dancing, and then a send off at about 10PM) as they had the entire venue rented out for the entire day.

Others (in facebook wedding groups im in) are saying that 8 hours is too much and that i don't need that much time (it's what we want and we are not doing the traditional wedding exactly, sister and I are performing a dance for everyone that no one except the photographer I may hire, knows about, we are also playing clips of home videos from us being younger and such, and much more) and I have a timeline built up already, and 8 hours is still not necessarily enough time for everything we have planned, but I was afraid that having anymore hours from what we originally want is ridiculous.

Our venue is for 5 hours

We had the reception venue for pretty much 6 hours including set up time.

Church wedding will be abt 40 minutes.

10 minute drive to reception venue.

Reception is 4 hours; after 4 hours they close our open bar LOL- I think it’s plenty long.

Then the wedding party and close friends will head to our hotel bar which is open til 2am.

Literally-can’t-wait!

9 hours...
3pm-4pm ceremony
4pm-6pm pictures
6pm-12pm reception

We have about 6.5 hours from our ceremony start time the end of our bar service. We have to be out of the venue 30 minutes later which is fine because we aren't responsible for clean up.

Mine is 5 hours (430PM-930PM

Venue: from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Wedding: 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

We have use of the venue from Friday afternoon til Sunday morning. Our ceremony is 4:00, cocktail hour at 4:30, ceremony from 5:30-9:30.

2pm-4pm Cermony
4pm-5pm cocktail hour
5pm-8pm dinner and dancing...
Thats my ideal timeline anyway..

We have our venue rented for 3 days (Thursday-Saturday) for our Saturday wedding. Our actual wedding will be 6 hours (3p-9p).

My reception venue (since I'm having my ceremony by a local pond) we have access to all day and the day before. They're new and allow weddings to come in the day before to set up and we technically have the venue until 11:59pm.

Our ceremony starts at 4:45 and the reception ends at 11. Our photographer is starting pictures at 1 so family needs to be there by then.

Total of 5 and a half hours. Ceremony will be 30 minutes and cocktail hour to follow and then 4 hours for reception.

Ceremony starts at 3pm reception to follow / ending at 9

About 6 hours — maybe 7

Only 4 hours because that’s all our bodies can handle! But it’s going to be a really fun 4 hours.