What time is your ceremony & reception starting?

Our ceremony is at 3, cocktail hour will be for roughly an hour after the end of the ceremony, dinner at 5 ish, ending at 8.

Few questions... are you wanting a morning or afternoon wedding? Are your ceremony and reception taking place at the same location? If so, I recommend adding a "cocktail hour" directly after your ceremony to entertain your guests while you and FS take pictures. If not, I recommend no longer than a 2-hour interval between your ceremony and reception.

View Quoted Comment Thinking afternoon the ceremony & reception will be in the same venue.

View Quoted Comment Thanks! That helps.

Our schedule is:
1st look & pics: 1 pm
Ceremony: 3 pmCocktail hour: 3:30 pmReception: 5 pmEnd time: 9 pmAfter party at nearby brewery
We talked to our photographer to figure out our schedule. She recommended starting our 30 minute ceremony about 1.5-2 hours before the sun sets so we can get golden hour pics during cocktail hour. The sun sets at about 4:40 pm at that time of year so that’s how we came up with our schedule.Also, we wanted the reception to end a bit earlier (9 pm versus the originally planned 10 pm) in case people aren’t staying over and want to get home.

View Quoted Comment Omg! Didn’t think about an after party I like that idea.

View Quoted Comment Thanks! There’s one of our favorite breweries a mile down the street from the venue, so we’re just going to bus everyone who wants to go over. My FH and FFIL are the ones pushing for this idea but honestly I love it!
Plus knowing our friend group (and all the weddings we’ve been to together) we’re going to go out after anyway.

Our ceremony will be at 4 and reception starts at 6 with cocktail hour in between. We went with our end time of had to be done by 10 and cleaned up by 11 for a Sunday night. We get the venue for 6 hours for our reception contract so we worked our timeline out backwards. We will be getting there at 1:30 and getting ready. First look at 3:15!

We did 5p ceremony and 6p reception

Ceremony at 2pm. Reception starts at 3pm with cocktail hour. Reception ends at 9pm.

Our ceremony will begin at 6:30pm with cocktail hour starting at 7pm and reception starting at 8pm.

Our ceremony is at 630pm and reception starts at 7pm

We are shooting for a start time between 4pm and 5pm. We need to wrap up by 10pm, and our wedding is in late spring so the sunset is at 8:20pm. We wanted to have our guests eating at a reasonable hour and not start too early because we didn't want the light to be super harsh at our ceremony (which is outdoors). Our rough plan is 5pm ceremony, 5:30pm cocktail hour, 6:30pm dinner, and dancing starting around 7:30pm, but we will adjust a bit based on what our venue/caterer recommends to make sure there is ample time for everything and nothing feels rushed or drawn out.

We are starting at 4. Cocktail hour to follow from 4:45ish- 5:45 while the building is "flipped". Reception 6p-11p.

Wedding starts at 4. I put that we are closing the doors to the church at 3:30 cocktail hour from 5-6 and reception 6-10pm