What Time Should Our Ceremony Begin?

Do you want a morning, afternoon, or evening ceremony? What do you want to do for the reception? If the ceremony is during a mealtime, you should host an actual meal during the reception. If it's an off time you can do a cake and punch reception or some light hor d'oeuvres or something.

Definitely a cake and punch is the goal. Maybe some light sandwiches and fruit as well. Nothing fancy. What time would you reccomend?

View Quoted Comment Definitely a cake and punch is the goal. Maybe some light sandwiches and fruit as well. Nothing fancy. What time would you reccomend?

I would do like 2pm or so. After lunch and before dinner.

View Quoted Comment Thank you so much. I was thinking somewhere around that ballpark as well.

We’re starting at 3:00 so I know we’ll be done with pictures before sunset. We’re late November also .

View Quoted Comment Perfect! That's awesome. Congratulations to you as well.

View Quoted Comment If that’s the case do a late morning (11 am) or early afternoon (1pm) wedding. Basically a brunch event (which is an idea that I originally planned for our wedding. But once the venue was selected, brunch didn’t fit. So I started over with ideas).

Ours will start at 5. Our cocktail hour will be 5:30-6:30 and our reception 6:30-11:00. It depends when it gets dark so I'd look up sunset time to make sure it isn't dark during your ceremony.

Thank you ladies.

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For a cake and punch reception your ceremony and reception need to fall between meal times, so I suggest starting the ceremony at 2 pm and ending the reception at 5 pm.

Thank you Vickie