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That sounds nice. You will have less time to stress before the ceremony and more time for the wedding night 
Our wedding will be at 4 , cocktail hour 6-7 and reception from 7-11:30. Only problem, many of our guests have children under the age of 8! That means alot of people leaving early to put their kids to bed. 20 kids under 8, sigh!
We're having our Canadian wedding on a Sunday, so we also had to change our timing a bit because we know a chunk of people will be driving home to go to work the next day. We are starting our ceremony at 3, lawn games from the end of the ceremony to 630, and dinner from 630-9ish. We figure the older crowd/work the next day people will leave at that point, and the people who are staying at the hotel will continue to hang out in an informal way. We are also getting married in Korea, and the ceremony + meal will take about 1 hour! It's VERY quick here! That means our wedding will start at 12:30 and end about 130/2! Most of our Korean-Western friends who have married here have invited friends out later for drinks, and we will probably do the same. Is there any other place you could go to after the official wedding (at least with a smaller group of people) for an after party? (only if you want to extend the night that is)
I think your timeline is spot on. Our ceremony is at 4, cocktail hour from 5-6, and reception from 6-10.
I don't know if you plan to take a honeymoon immediately after your wedding or how close you are to an airport but a mid-day wedding might be a blessing in disguise. After we set our time schedule we went to book our honeymoon and realized that after we leave our reception we will have to immediately change, drive 1.5 hours to a hotel right outside the airport, only to wake up SUPER early (4am) in the morning and catch our flight. :(
we are doing an 11am ceremony... cocktail hour 12-1, reception 1-5. it was much cheaper that way and most of our guests are 2 -3 hours away so it makes it so they dont HAVE to stay over.. although im hoping they do because karaoke night starts at 8!
Ceremony 6 or 6:30
Cocktail Hour 7:00
Dinner 7:30 or 8
Dancing and Fun 9
Is this too late?? I was gonna start at 5:30 but its outdoors and it will be really hot! Plus the sun sets around 9 so this way it will start to get dark when the music starts. Reception and ceremony at same site fyi...
Ceremony at 10am and reception from 3-8....yes its a full Catholic Mass.
Catholic Mass 5:30
Cocktails 6:30
Dinner & Dancing 7:30-midnight!
12:30 a.m. Festivities with husband... 
Church Ceremony 4:30pm
Cocktail Hour 5:30-6:30pm
Dinner and Dancing 7pm-midnight
Dang...I'm glad I looked at this thread. I was totally thinking a 6pm ceremony with reception from 7 to ten or ten thirty. TOTALLY forgot about cocktail hour....Maybe five for our ceremony then??
I never imagined having a mid-day ceremony/reception, either! But, the only time my ceremony venue was available on 8.28 was at 1pm...soooo, a mid-day wedding it is! Lol. It's definitely a little stressful because it means I will be up at the crack of dawn trying to prepare things, plus hair appts for me & the bridesmaids, makeup, etc.
Ceremony & Reception sites are only about 10 minutes away from each other....so we're thinking:
Ceremony 1-1:30 pm (Not having a mass or anything so how long is it really going to take? I prefer short and sweet lol)
Reception to start at 3pm I'm thinking, hmmm this does not give us a lot of time for pictures though, only like an hour and a half. :/ Maybe 2:30-3:30 cocktail hour, 3:30 reception start?
We're having our ceremony at 5:30 with the reception at 7-11pm (or whenever everyone leaves, hopefully earlier!). We did a late ceremony/reception time because the reception venue was booked up until 6, and they need an hour to turn around for us.
We are doing a 4:30 ceremony,
5:00-6:00 cocktail hour,
6:00-7:30 (or 7:15) dinner,
7:30 to 10:30 dancing.
@Rx - Mine's scheduled for the same time as yours...Technically, the room is not mine until 7. I would prefer my ceremony to start around 5:30, but it will probably be at 6 or 6:30...
We're getting married at the reception site. The ceremony starts at 7, the cocktail hour starts at 7:30, and the reception ends at midnight. We were originally planning to leave for our honeymoon the next day, but have decided to leave on Monday instead, so we don't have to fly on only a couple hours of sleep. :)
We opted for a late-afternoon wedding on purpose cause we wanted to have an evening reception/party and didn't want our dayguests to be bored out of their minds by dinnertime from having to wait so long in between! Plus, having to entertain them all afternoon long felt a little much as well, we much rather enjoy the pre-wedding part of the day together with just our parents&witnesses instead of having to worry bout whether everybody is constantly having a good time.
So our time line is sorta like this:
3:30-3:45pm guests arrive at wedding location
4:00pm wedding ceremony
~5:15pm cake cutting & toast, following cocktail hour till dinner
6:15-7:45pm dinner
8pm-midnight/1am reception/party
We picked a friday for our wedding so that our OOT guests and those who have a full time job don't need to leave extra early in order to be awake the next morning, so the end time of the day is prolly around midnight (we have the venue till 1am there about). I am honestly hoping that by then most have left lol cause I can just imagine I am just dying to get away and into some peace and quiet with just my husband after such a long day!
our timeline would be something like:
ceremony at 4pm
hor d'eourves/cider/cake at 5pm
dinner reception at 630pm
Our ceremony and reception are at the same venue...
4pm ceremony
Cocktail hour starts immediately following ceremony (likely around 4:30), and goes until 6:30
6:45 seated for dinner, first course served around 7
dancing
8:30 cake cutting
More dancing
Last ferry departs venue at 10:45
That sounds good :) We're having our ceremony from 5:30-6. Then a cocktail hour from 6-7 and the reception from 7-10.
I wouldn't mind having that time frame. You won't have that rushed of a morning but also can enjoy your wedding night. Most times that I could find for a mid day reception was 11-4 which was WAY to early for me. We had to compromise on our reception time. Our ceremony is going to be at 5pm and then our cocktail hour starts at 7 with dinner and dancing following. Our reception will end at midnight. It is kinda late though since it is not located at a hotel where people could just go upstairs and go to sleep :/ My FI and I have come to the conclusion that we are probably going to be too tired on our wedding night :( Oh well at least we have the rest of our lives!
We're having a Catholic ceremony, so it was 2 or 7:30. We went with the earlier time!
Ceremony 2-3
Pictures/deliberate break for guests to tour downdown Nashville: 3-5 (we've rented shuttles to take people on tours and drive them the 1 mile between reception/ceremony)
Cocktail Hour: 5-6
Dinner and dancing: 6-10
First look pictures 4-5pm
ceremony 5-5:15
wedding party pictures and cocktail hour 5:30
6:30 Dinner
7:30 dancing
8:00 cake cutting
More dancing and drinks till midnight
6:30 ceremony
7:00-8:00 Cocktail Jazz Reception while they flip the room
8:15 Dinner reception, cake, dancing, garter toss, first dance, etc.
We have the venue til midnight. We will depart based on the crowd.
Our schedule for the day is pretty relaxed I think. Around 1pm the photographer will arrive and shoot some pics of me getting ready (hair/make-up should be sorta done by then, and I will just have to scoot into my dress still). Around 1.30pm we'll be meeting the groom, and we'll be on our way for our photography session.
3:45pm guests gather at ceremony venue and we'll arrive shortly after
4pm ceremony
group pics following the ceremony, travel to restaurant once finished with the pics
~5.30pm toast
~6.30pm dinner
8.30pm evening guests arrive
party till closing
We have the venue till like 1.30am but I think we'll be closing the bar around midnight, depending on the crowd. I am sure that by then I am ready for some quality time with the hubs too!
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My date for my wedding is August 7th, so far, I have found my dress, bridesmaid dress, favors, invitations, and a venue? However; the venue I want is only available up to 7:00pm, which means I would have to sart my ceremony at 1:00pm. I never imagined having a mid day wedding, I actually wanted to start the wedding at 5:00pm and end at 11pm. So you can see my frustration. What do you guys think about that timing? Any suggestions to make this better?
Wedding Ceremony from 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cocktail Hour and Pictures from 2:00-3:00pm
Reception from 3:00pm-7:00pm