Who's having an all day wedding?

I'm having a typical wedding day. Ceremony at 5:30pm & reception following immediately after.

Our ceremony is at 2 and reception immediately after.

I am!!! I hope it helps in not feeling rushed. Ceremony is at 12:30p.m. and reception starts at 3:30p.m. until midnight. )

What do you mean by all day? We are having the ceremony at 5:30pm followed by cocktail hour from 6-7pm and reception following until 11pm. I personally wouldn't prefer an early wedding ceremony if the reception would be much later.

We will be doing ceremony around noon and then reception about an hour later since there will be a travel distance. At least that's the plan. Most couples try to minimize gaps between to be considerate of their guests. What are they going to do between the ceremony and reception. If your in a touristy areas they can enjoy the sights etc during the day, if your in a nontouristy area you will end up with a lot of bored guests... Imo.

My wedding is at 2 with the reception immediately after. My cousin had a 3 hour gap in a town none of us lived in it sucked!! We were all at the mall in our nice clothes killing time.

ETA: why do you want it to be so spaced out?

Ceremony: 6:30

Cocktail Hour: 7:00-8:00

Reception: 8:00-12:00

Official start of ceremony :4:30 followed by cocktail hour (5pm-6pm) followed by reception ending at10.

I'll be celebrating all day but I wouldn't be inconsiderate of my guests and have a huge gap. (I'll be celebrating all month ...lol)

As much as people here will try to present that gaps are 'normal', 'expected' or 'fun for the guests so they can explore", I personally hate them. I get that if you have a church wedding, it may have to be in the morning or early afternoon, but trust me, no one wants to spend all day at a wedding, especially when you factor in travel and getting ready time. No one wants to play tourist when they are all dressed up from a ceremony, and having that gap totally dissipates the excitement of the wedding. It isn't rational to expect people to spend 12 hours in wedding mode.

Church 2pm, Reception starts at 4pm until midnight. That's normal for a UK wedding.

My ceremony is at 1pm, cocktail hours starts at 4pm, and the reception is from 5pm-10pm. I totally agree with Celia. Although I'm Catholic, I still think gaps are annoying even though they're the "norm" in my area. My parents will be hosting any out of town people or anyone else that wants a fun place to go at their house with snacks and refreshments. I wish I could have had a later ceremony, but my priest wouldn't give us the option because of confession starting at 2:30pm on Saturdays.

Our ceremony was at 2pm, reception immediately following. We had live music, but no dances, speeches, bouqet toss, etc. People ate, drank, visited and enjoyed the music. It wrapped up by 5:30. (It was a small country wedding).

8pm ceremony. Reception following. It's a bit crazy to ask people to dedicate the whole day to the wedding. Outside of bridal party. Even then. What do they do for the 4 hours in between?

I agree with Celia. I went to a wedding where there was a 3 hour gap between ceremony and reception. My Fiance and I went to the mall to kill time, got bored and decided to take a nap in the car. By the time we woke up we didn't even want to go to the reception.

Our ceremony is at 1:30pm and our reception is 6pm - 12am. That's pretty normal for around here, although some people are starting to do them back to back or at the same place.

Edited: Everyone is local that I think feel they "have" to come to both, besides 2 guests. And they will be checking into the hotel in between because they are only staying that night in the hotel and can't check in til after the ceremony is expected to be over. Not everyone attends the ceremony, like we expect maybe 40 - 50 at the ceremony out of an invited 112. And it probably would be lower than that except so many people are truly local, within a few minute drive. Those that are local but not super close, maybe a half an hour drive, that they maybe don't want to make twice, typically don't come to ceremony. It's totally normal to have people just come to reception.

Edited Again for grammar. And to add that I tried to have the ceremony at 430p and the reception at 6pm so everyone could come to both but logistically it didn't work out for vendors. I was kinda surprised by this but whatever. I had never even heard of "gaps" (I didn't realize there was a name for it), or realize they were rude or whatever until WW, bc most of the weddings I've been to the ceremony was at church, early and reception at night. I've been to two where they were right before in the same space also. I've also just gone to receptions and not to ceremonies.

We are having a church wedding at 1. Ceremony will be approximately 45 minutes. We will be doing a receiving line will can take up to a half hour. At this point we are close to 3. Our reception is 15 minutes away from the church and will be open and ready for people to arrive, mingle, have hors devours. I'm not sure how long photos will take. Maybe an hour? I hope to be at the reception at 5, have the DJ announce us and the wedding party, and have dinner around 5:30. Then it's party time until 10 or 11 or so.

Not me. Whole event is 5 hours, from 12-5. I would not want to be at a wedding all day; after 2-3 hours I'm ready to go

Our wedding will start at 3pm, cocktail hour from 4-5 and then reception starts from 5pm to whenever. Out last limo will leave at 2am to take guests home but some are staying the night so it will be an all night thing for some.

Also, I have never heard of people needing to fill a gap by sightseeing before WW either. People legitimately go home in between, or they don't come to the ceremony, or they go to a bar because they are ready to start partying.

@OP, what is your bridal party apprehensive about? Mine actually wanted the gap so that we could do pictures after the ceremony so they could have fun on the party bus (drink) because I've asked that no one get drunk before the ceremony and the party bus is one of the most fun parts of the day.

We are having an all day wedding, which is quite common here in Canada. My ceremony starts at 2:30pm, followed immediately by the cocktail hour and reception. All in one venue. The reception officially ends at 1:00am, but likely the only people left will be mine and FHs friends.