Wedding Times

I had my ceremony start at 5p and we had our reception elsewhere. but it was only a 10 minute drive. we were out of the venue around 1130p

Our wedding is at 1:30, but we also have a catholic wedding and our reception is 30 min from the ceremony

Ceremony 530
Cocktail hour 6-7
Reception 7-11

What time of year is your wedding?

I forgot to add our ceremony and reception are all in the same venue so no time needed for traveling, just room to room

Our ceremony is at 7pm. We're having a very formal evening wedding which is what we always wanted. It's in the same place as the reception and that will end at 1am. Our family/friends stay up late so it works perfect.

View Quoted Comment It’s in the summer

View Quoted Comment Gotcha! In that case I may go with 6 if you can for the sake of the sun in your pictures. I don’t think the hour will make a huge difference but pictures best come out closest to sunrise/sunset if that makes a difference to you.

I'm getting married late summer and our ceremony starts at 5:30pm. The bar opens at 6pm for guests while we take our photos. We don't have super planned timeline other than that, but we picked 5:30 for the ceremony so that we can take advantage of the "golden hour" for photos after the ceremony. We have the venue until 10pm so we'll have four hours of celebration. I think what time you start your ceremony depends on how long you're planning for it to last.

Mine is supposed to be at 5

My wedding is at 3:00p.m didn’t want anything to late because I don’t want my guest to sit and be hungry while I get married for a wedding that late in the evening.

Ceremony 3pm, cocktails from 3:30-5, reception 5-12 with dinner at 5:30. We are doing all pictures before the ceremony so we can mingle with guests during cocktail hour. Gives us more time to talk to everyone and not have to try to talk to people over the loud music!

I'd just start at 5. Better too early than too late!

We're doing our ceremony at 6. Cocktail hour 6:30-7:30. Entrances, dinner, cake until 9. Dancing 9-11, and out by 11:30.

Does your venue have a time limit? If not, make it last as long as you can. Ceremony at 3/4pm.

We’re having ours at 3:30pm in October.