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If Mass ends at 4 pm, could cocktail hour start at 4:15-4:30? It depends on how far away your reception site is, but if you can swing it that early then you and hubby will arrive around 5. Enjoy some cocktail hour, then have an invocation before serving the food (5:30). After abour 15 min. of eating, do the toasting(5:45-6 pm). After everyone's eaten for about 45 minutes (6:15-6:30), you can go into first dance, father/daughter, mother/son, etc. Open up the floor and then within the hour bouquet/garter toss (7:30)...? Cut the cake by 8 and you've successfully recept'd four hours. (:
Can you just add an hour or two to the reception? We will do cocktail hour at 4, but I don't consider that to be part of the reception, during this hour the bridal party will take photos, the reception will start about 5 and last 6 hours. I figure, we're only doing this once and many brides complain thereception seems short so why not extend it?
I'm in a similar situation to you and I cut back about 15 minutes of the cocktail hour (so it's a cocktail 45-min) and added a half hour to the end of the reception to have at least 2 full hours of dancing. Good luck!
Thanks ladies for your suggestions. i will talk it over with my fiance when he gets home from work. he likes to be very involved in the planning, which actually kinda surprised me! 
Thanks ladies for your suggestions. i will talk it over with my fiance when he gets home from work. he likes to be very involved in the planning, which actually kinda surprised me!
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Hello ladies! I am trying to figure out how long to make my reception last. We have our ceremony at the church at 3pm. I'm assuming mass will last til about 4pm then pics for a lil while. So i'm planning on cocktail hour/hor d'erves at 5pm. But i was planning on a 4 hour reception. So say dinner served at 6pm. that only leaves drinking/dancing til 9pm. that seems way too early for the reception to be over.
can you give me some ideas of how your day is planned out??