Wedding how much time between your ceremony & reception

[janinegirly]

how much time between your ceremony & reception? (start times)

 

[E B]

Our reception site is literally a few steps up a stone staircase (outside) from our ceremony site. We''re getting married at sunset (7:00pm) and figure that by the time the ceremony is over, our guests will be pretty hungry, so we''re skipping the cocktail hour and going straight to the reception.

 

[Jas12]

4:00--ceremony
4:30ish--cocktails in same area
6:30--dinner, which is a few steps away from ceremony location

 

[Fancy605]

we''re hoping for an hour or less between the ceremony and reception. During the time between, we are having passed Hors'' Dourves for our guests to enjoy until we get there. Once we arrive, dinner will be sevred. Our venues are only about 5 min apart, and we''re doing all photos before hand except for those that include us together.

 

[AmberWaves]

I voted "other" because I have no idea. We''re doing a Catholic Church ceremony at 9:30am (yeeesh) and since I''m not Catholic, I have no idea how long it''s going to last, but the reception starts at 11am.

 

[akw94]

Ours starts right after and is at the same place. We figure guests will mingle for 1/2hour to an hour. We''ll have punch and hors d''oeuvres. Plus, we''ll do the first dance then. Then is lunch and just hang out for the rest.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Ours started an hour after but during the in between time we had our cocktail hour with the open bar and hors d''oeuvres so there was no down time.

 

[So_happy]

Ceremony 5:00-5:45
Travel time to reception site 35-45 min
Recpetion 7:00-11:00pm

We built in an extra half hour between ending of our ceremony to begining of our reception to allow for anyone hanging around after the ceremony with us and anyone possibly getting a little lost. Oh, and to give us a buffer in case the ceremony starts a bit late.

 

[anchor31]

Ceremony: 11AM
Cocktails: 12:15PM
Lunch: 1:30PM

Where''s the 1h option on the poll?

 

[janinegirly]

for 1 hr, i''d go with first option since that''s more or less imediately following (takes some time to get to site, or gather or take pics,etc)

 

[labbielove]

cermony starts at 2pm,
receiving line outside church until about 3

reception room opens at 3:30 with water/coffee/tea light snacks
but cocktail hour starts at 4:30

our venue is a museum so folks can explore the village while we have photos taken,
we''re not concerned about the time lapse
esp. since they have a place to go at 3:30 if they don''t care to walk around
(plus many are staying at a b&b 1 mile away- could go over there if need be)

 

[Pandora II]

Ceremony - 3.00pm
Drinks and canapes - 3.45pm
Reception - 6.00pm

There are beautiful gardens and ruins to look at and I will get some croquet sets. Plus a jazz band, drinks and nibbly bits so I hope it will work okay!

 

[surfgirl]

Pandora, can I come?! That sounds divine! May I ask where your reception is? Croquet sounds lovely...What about lawn bowling too? Sounds very "Great Gatsby-ish"...

 

[kathyinjapan]

Other:
Ceremony should finish by 9am
Reception doesn''t begin until 5.30pm ~ 6.00pm

We wanted a sunrise ceremony and sunset reception

It''s only just us and 6 family members, so we''ll head back to the house after the ceremony, have some cake and champagne, take it easy for the afternoon before heading out to the reception at about 4.30pm (We''re staying on the north shore of the island and so it''s roughly a 1hr drive to the restaurant on the south).

If we were having a bigger wedding with more guests, I wouldn''t have chosen such a big time gap between the ceremony and reception though. 1-2hr max

 

[SleepyBear]

The church ceremony will be at midday, with the formal sit-down wedding breakfast at 1.30-1.45pm, evening reception will commence at 7-7.30pm until midnight.

 

[ephemery1]

Our ceremony was at 4pm at a local church... started 10 mins late and ran until about 4:45. We had the cocktail hour scheduled for 6pm, so we had all the out of towners go back to their hotel after the ceremony, to get picked up by the trolley around 5:30, to head over to the Hotel for cocktail hour/reception... mostly to eliminate any possibility of drunk driving later that night!