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We are aiming right for 30 minutes. Enough to make it the most important part of the day, but not too long to bore people who are just ready to celebrate!
We are trying for 30-40 minutes. Not sure what we will include but I hope to have a few good friends do readings and a short sermon. I want it to be short but not gone in a flash.
I assume ours will be somewhere around 30 minutes. I'm a fan of keeping it short and sweet and getting to the reception so that we can really celebrate.
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Our ceremony ran about 20 minutes, and that was with an extra cultural tradition thrown in too!
I'm hoping our ceremony will be 20-30 minutes. I'm not good at standing in place for a long time. I'm too fidgity.
It may run a little over 30 when you count the Mothers, etc. going down the aisle - but not much more.
Our ceremony was about 20 mins and that included our lei exchange ceremony. We wanted to keep it as short as possible.
We're having a full Catholic mass, so it will probably be about an hour.
40-45 minutes. Even though I love to party, I'm not a fan of "getting the ceremony over with" to hurry up and party as I believe the ceremony is sacred - that's when the marriage moment takes place.
20-30 mintues. We don't want to run up there and run back. But we don't want it to be too long.
Haven't really thought about it, but it will probably end up around 30 minutes-if that. The ceremony is the part that stresses out FI the most, he's very shy, so the shorter the better!
mine will be about 25 minutes with communion for 100, but we are ONLY doing special music during communion to save time & not doing a unity candle, etc
We are hoping ours will be 20-30 mins. Having it be non-denominational (a friend of ours is officiating for us) we were a little concerned it would be too short- we one of our firends is going to sing and we will have two short readings.
Looks like less than 30 min is the winner as of now, and I actually voted in 30-45 because I plan for it to be 30 minutes, but in reality I think it will be more like 20-30, so add another vote for me! I'm kind of starting to look into the writing of mine and I'm already overwhelmed. Check out the wiki! it's really informative.
We're having a full Catholic mass, so too long for most of our friends. I hope we get chairs!
We're all for the "short and sweet" but also don't want to just blow by it either. Our friend is officiating for us so it won't be too long, but I think it'll still be 30mins if you count the processional, worship, short sermon etc. Personally, as a guest I start to lose focus after 30 mins so I'm trying to keep within that for my own wedding.
Ours was 50 minutes because we had a full mass. I loved that it was so long. I wanted to savor every moment!
Short and sweet. Probably about 20 min tops. I don't want any of my maids passing out from locking their knees ;) I also just want to be able to get the party started and celebrate with my husband!
Too long!! I want an eight minute ceremony. My friend had an eight minute service and ever since then that is what I wanted to do, but my FH want a very traditional service....40 minutes in all.
Ours will be about 25 minutes. We will include all the necessary stuff, probably a short story about us as a couple from our pastor/officiant, and the colored sand ceremony.
Ours will be closer to an hour because we're doing a full Catholic mass. I'm tempted to put a crossword puzzle or wordsearch into the program for the non-Catholic guests so that they don't get bored!
(kidding, kidding)
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drifts -- as a kid I would have LOVED that during mass! I wouldnt necessaryily put a game in there -- but it might be nice if you have a large number of non-Catholic guests to put a bit of an "explination" of the mass in the program. I recently went to a Catholic wedding and sat next to a non-Catholic friend and he was curious to know what the heck was going on -- and what the POINT of all the different aspects were. That could keep them a bit more interested if they knew what was going on.
Oh, definitely, Huma! I'm planning on having a program for just those reasons. :) I don't want our non-Catholic guests to be confused as to when to sit, stand, speak, etc. Seriously, though, a good coloring book or word search would have been the best thing ever for my little 6-year-old self!
I always envied my friends from other faiths when they got such things in bible study!
The chapel where we are getting married limits the ceremony (including processional, recessional, and getting all of the guests out the door) to 40 minutes. I voted in the 30-45 min. category because I was including all of that. I expect the actual part once I get to the end of the aisle until I exit the sanctuary to be 10-20 min.
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Ours should be about 15-20 minutes which to me seems SO short! BUT we are getting married on the beach, & we don't have any bridesmaids or anything so I suppose thats about right. We are going to do a lei exchange & a sand ceremony (mostly because I don't want the ceremony to be TOO short!) All this planning for just 15-20 minutes? :)
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full catholic mass, about an hour. ( we don't have that many guests so communion shouldn't take that long too )
We are doing an interfaith ceremony so we are thinking 40 or so minutes. I dont think that is bad at all.
I timed it at 30 minutes but when it came down to it I think it lasted around 45 minutes. That was because our crappy officiant was horrible at reading through the ceremony and kept ad libbing crap whenever he started stumbling through it. Then it started to rain and he was reading so slow, I almost told him to keep to the I DO's. He was definitely the worst $75 I'd ever spent, lol.
Less than 30. I had a full hour years ago and the lights were so hot...my minister was bald and I saw the beads of sweat building on his forehead and it made me almost dizzy. My sis, MOH and my maid of honor, both had to carry two bouquets and they almost passed out too from the heat, carrying 2 large bouquets, and standing still in their heels so long.
I like a song to be sung before, (my viewing of weddings over the years and my preference), the processional, my entrance, and then some words of love and faith but not a full hour from the minister, and vows and voila! Done.
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Riffing off of Humarock's post on reception length, I'm wondering how long your ceremony will be? I'm a big fan of short and sweet, but also want our ceremony to have meaning. So how long is/was your ceremony? And what did you include?