Wedding Start Time?

Put the actual start time of the ceremony.

Put 2pm, most people would arrive around 1:30ish. If you put 1:30, they might start coming around 1 and be confused and agitated they have to wait (horrible but true lol).

Plus it is your wedding, most of your guests will want to be there on time and make the effort

You tell them it starts at 2 and you start it at 2. Adults should be able to arrive early and of not then the people who are late can find seats after you've done your walk. We had a start time of 1pm and right at one my girls started walking down the aisle. We had one couple show up as the girls were walking and they just waited in the foyer.

OMG, not this again. Please look this up; it's been rehashed about a million times.

About 90% of my couples do a half hour ahead. Adults do NOT show up on time, you'll wait for them and there goes your cocktail hour. Now, I am in NYC/NJ, and people who live here seem to think that they are exempt from being on time, but lateness happens on such a regular basis that our venues pretty much all tell couples to invite a half hour ahead. They don't make people go and sit in the sun for a half hour; they do a hospitality time and lead people to the ceremony space about 10 minutes beforehand so they can start on time.

We have traffic issues, valet parking issues, late shuttle issues and just 'I don't have to be on time" issues with almost every wedding we do.

Bottom line? You can put whatever time you want on the invite, but be prepared to start at that time if you don't allow a buffer time, no matter who is missing.

Start it at 2. For ours, we have the ceremony site for 2 hours, 4-6. Our start time is 4:30 but our ushers and the guys will be there at 4. I hope to walk in at 4:32 lol

If it starts at 2, put 2 on the invites.

We put 5:00 and not a single person showed up late (I was totally expecting my family to show up late), so we got started right on time.

We put 6:00pm for our actual 6:00pm ceremony time. I'm nervous that people will show up late, but I've asked about this before and the advice I got is to put the actual start time. Like others have said, for the people who are punctual, they could be waiting around for up to an hour if you put the start time as half an hour early.

Keep it at 2. If you start at 1:30 keep in mind the guests arriving early. If you can start at 2 people can get there early. Chat and get settled in.

Our wedding is starting at 2, and I put a 1:30 start time on our invitation. I know many will arrive at 1:30 and there will be refreshments and music to keep them occupied for the half hour. However, I am Nigerian, and most of my family operates on their own time, so I provided lag time for them to get there. Plus my ceremony location is in a fairly obscure place so I thought it fair to give some lag time

If it starts at 2, put 2.

Our invitation says the true start time but our wedding website suggests a half hour earlier, due to Jersey shore summer traffic.