What time is your church wedding?

An hour is nothing! My ceremony is 2 and my reception doesn't start till 5. That's what sucks An hour should be fine. Then people can mingle for a little bit before heading over. There is nothing you can do about it. Just like there is nothing I can do about it. That's the problem with church weddings!

It is not the end of the world, but could you move your cocktail hour up?

Ours is 10am with the cocktail hour starting at 12noon. Our ceremony is 45mins long and its about a 30 min dive to our reception. Our reception venue allows guests to arrive early & use their downstairs bar. Maybe ask your venue if they have something like that?

My wedding is at my fiancés private ranch, so the venue is not a problem, I just don't want the guests to have such a long cocktail hour. Another problem is our photographer is only there for 8 hours, so we have to organize everything around that as well.

Y opinion is no. My Church only had a 2:00PM time slot on the day. Our cocktail hour starts at 6. That's a 3 and a half hour gap. Lots of people say that's bad, but that's how it alway is at family weddings.

My ceremony is at 6:30 pm and my reception at 8:00 pm

I think thats perfectly fine! My Church ceremony is at 2:30pm and will probably take around 2 hours. Our cocktail hour starts at 6pm. We are also having a receiving line with hundreds of guests and the reception is about 30 min away so after all of that, there will hardly be a gap lol.

Mine is at 5pm and cocktail hour starts at 7 :-)

3:30 pm with cocktail starting at 6pm. Our service is 1 hour long and we are planning on having the receiving line afterwards. We our ceremony starting at 4pm but the photographer was concerned there wouldn't be enough time to take pictures afterwards. I was trying to avoid any type of gap but oh well. I'm advising most of my guest to check into the hotel after the church and then take the shuttle to the reception.

My ceremony started at 2. It was 35 minutes long. Our cocktail hour location was 30 minutes away and it started at 4. So we had an hour gap and our guests didn't seem to mind, all guests were from out of town and not familiar with the area, so we wanted to add in buffer time in case they got lost. Our ceremony location was on a beautiful college campus so guests could freely walk around and check out where we had spent the last 4 years of our lives, since this was where DH and I met. This also allowed guests enough time to go back to their hotels and freshen up if need be, especially since a lot of them were traveling with children. In addition our reception venue said they would host early arriving guests 30 minutes prior with non-alcoholic drinks until the normal cocktail hour started.