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mrswinteriscoming
VIP December 2021

Will guests come on time or do we say something?

mrswinteriscoming, on June 19, 2020 at 12:38 AM

Posted in Etiquette and Advice 23

Our invitations have been ordered (yay!) and we have put the start time as 5:30pm which is when our ceremony will start. We didn't write an earlier time to prevent people coming too early - to my understanding, people will know to come early anyway. We feared that putting an earlier start time (i.e....

Our invitations have been ordered (yay!) and we have put the start time as 5:30pm which is when our ceremony will start. We didn't write an earlier time to prevent people coming too early - to my understanding, people will know to come early anyway. We feared that putting an earlier start time (i.e. 5:15pm) meant people would come even earlier than that time listed and things would still be getting set up.

Will people actually come early and be seated for a 5:30pm start? I'm now anxious we should've worded things differently! Do we just *hint* to the stragglers we are specifically worried about that it is a 5:30pm sharp start time?

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  • Sinaya
    Devoted August 2022
    Sinaya ·
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    In the Q&A Section of by website I put the following per the suggestion of my coordinator:

    Q.When is the wedding?

    Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 5:30pm.
    (Seating begins at 5:00pm)

    It kind of politely encourages people to show up a little early but no too early. There's always folks on both ends of the spectrum lol.

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  • A
    Super December 2020
    Anais ·
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    Oh that’s a great phrase to put, thank you I will use that!
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  • Sinaya
    Devoted August 2022
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    You're welcome!

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