How long was your reception?

[SarahLovesJS]

Not sure if I''ve asked this before, but how long was your reception? We''re considering extending ours by an hour because right now by the time we get in there from the ceremony it would only last from 7-9:50 or so (have to be gone by 10ish). Is that enough time?

Most of our guests are in the 30-60 age range.

 

[PrincessMiaPuff]

Not married yet but plan on a 5 to 10 for the reception. What time is your ceremony?

 

[Porridge]

In Ireland, dinner usually starts around 6 or 7, and the reception usually ends around 3am, then there''s usually a singsong in the resident''s bar of the hotel until god knows when.

 

[SarahLovesJS]

Date: 1/12/2009 9:47:25 PM
Author: PrincessMiaPuff
Not married yet but plan on a 5 to 10 for the reception. What time is your ceremony?

It''s at 6, but will be over by 6:30. So reception will start around 7 since we''re doing photos mostly ahead of time. Porridge that sounds fun, can I come?

 

[PrincessMiaPuff]

I personally think bridal dance, your first dance, father daughter dance, Mom & son dance, Garter toss, tossing the throw away flowers, Cake cutting and eating dinner and if you our having a sit down dinner may now allow enough time. I would extend the time for more dancing! Good luck!

 

[CNOS128]

We''ll have the ceremony from 6:30 - 7, cocktails from 7 - 8, dinner reception 8 - 11:30. It''s not the longest of weddings, but we''re not doing a lot of things like garter toss, bouquet toss, and planned toasts. It''ll be dinner and dancing, and if people want to toast us, that''s cool. Then they''ll all go home except for the brave few who will come to the bar across the street and continue the celebration.

 

[Smurfysmiles]

our ceremony is at 5 so the reception will probably start between 6 and 6:30 and ours can go until 1am I''m so excited im gonna eat so much cake! haha and i told fi that i am eating all my food on my plate and i dont care what anyone thinks lol

 

[KimberlyH]

We had a very small guest listof people mostly over 50 with no dancing. Our schedule was as follows:

7:00 - ceremony
7:30 - cocktails
8:15 - dinner
11:00 - end reception.

People were still hanging around at 11:15 chatting. It would down about 11:30, when the staff started cleaning up the table. My family talks a lot, but I think it would have lasted longer had the workers not come in.

 

[Pandora II]

Ours was:

Ceremony - 3.30 - 4.00
Drinks - 4.00 - 6.00
Dinner - 6.15 - 8.30
Evening - 8.30 - 12.00 with cake at 10.00pm

We then had an afterparty in the hotel most of us were staying in.

I think weddings in the UK and Ireland tend to be much longer than in the USA. I''ve been to lots with an 11.30am ceremony that still ended at 2am the next day.

 

[ksinger]

Huge outdoor party on a deck with a clubhouse, watching the sunset by a lake. Very informal and went from 5:30-ish to 11:30. Fun. Exhausting. People think we should get married once a year and hold the party as an annual thing.

We think that is a compliment....

 

[galvana]

FI and I are in our 30''s and our guests range from 20''s to 60''s - only a few 20 yr old. mostly 30''s and 40''s
ANYWAY
our cocktail hour is 5p-6p and reception is 5p-11p.
we wanted as much time as possible to be with our guests, partying, dancing, etc.

 

[elrohwen]

The ceremony is at 5, ending at 5:10 probably (haha, I'm serious). The cocktail hour will be 1.5 hours, then dinner and dancing, and the reception ends at 11:30. We want to get some sort of informal after hours party going in a bar as well. Our guests are overwhelmingly under 35, so I think they will love staying up late and partying. However, I know the people over 50 will be leaving early, so 9:50 may not be too early to end it for your group. It really depends on how late you think people will stay and how late they'll want to party.

 

[pocahontas]

Ours will be:

4 - 5pm ceremony
6ish - 7ish - cocktails
7ish - 11pm - reception.

We have to end the formal reception at 11pm due to noise restrictions at the hotel (DW). Afterwards though we'll be hitting either the hotel club, or a local club to continue the partying. We're still trying to work out the details. I should add that with the exception of our parents, our guests are in their late 20's to mid 30's, love to dance and will be on vacation so undoubtedly we'll be partying into the early morning.

 

[musey]

Ours was about 4.5 hours with a short (1 hour) bonfire afterward.

 

[bee*]

As is the trend in Ireland-

Ceremony 1.30-2.30

Drinks and snacks 3.00 - 5.30

Dinner 5.30 - 8.00

Band 8.00 - 11.00

DJ - 11.00 - 1.30am

Party in Residents Bar 1.30 till 4.00am

I cannot wait for it all!!

 

[MissDimity]

Ceremony = 5.30pm- 6pm
Reception= 6pm- 11pm

Our wedding ceremony and reception are at the same location.

 

[newbie124]

Ceremony: 5-5:20/5:30

Cocktail hour: 5:45-6:45 (ceremony and reception at at the same venue, but different sites. Knowing our friends, it will probably take awhile to herd all of them to the reception area)

Dinner: 7-8:30

Dancing: 8:45-10:50

I think about 35-40 percent of our guests would dance (helps to know Indians , so I think this should probably be sufficient time for our group

 

[teapot]

our reception was 5.5 hours long and we had to cut the party short

 

[tabu]

Hello everyone!! We are doing a 6:00 ceremony since it is on a Friday evening. And then the reception is literally a walk away so that starts at 7:00 and ends around 1:00 am. So excited!

Good luck everyone!

 

[Sparkalicious]

It should be for 6 hrs or so ...

6:30 - 7:30 - Cocktail hour
7:30 - midnight - Reception (dinner, speeches etc)

I wish it could be longer. A reception in Ireland sounds like sooo much fun! We could barely find anywhere in our area that would permit us to stay longer than midnight!

 

[emilina22]

our receptions are actually really short...

we have our ceremony in our church at 10ish till 12
then we will likely arrive at our reception at 130 and this will last until about 3 or 4 in the afternoon