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I think about 9:00-9:30pm this way by the time they get home it's still early and they have time to maybe sit home, put the tv on etc. before heading off to bed
My brothers wedding was on a sunday, and they had to make their exit around 9:00. Guests started leaving, and they didnt want everyone to leave before they did. My wedding is also on a sunday, im hoping people stay a little longer. I dont really care to make a grand exit though I want to stay until the party is over !We have the venue til 12.
It depends on the crowd. Unless the majority of your guestlist is elderly folks who go to bed early, most people will tend to leave at 10:30pm. The idea of leaving early to travel home doesn't make sense to me because if you are from out of the area and you are attending in the first place, most folks have more than likely made arrangements for the following day off. That is assuming that the following Monday is not a holiday. There is ample time to arrange that in the timeframe when invitations and even save the dates are sent out. If someone does have to travel a fair distance to get home, they either won't attend at all or they will call in sick/late the next day because they won't be travelling during the night and then be up at the crack of dawn to go to work the next day, as the lack of sleep will drastically affect their job performance.
We just went to a Sunday evening wedding, and most guests began leaving around 9. FI and I left around 9:30.
My Canadian wedding is going to be on a Sunday. We plan on cutting the cake at 9 so people can leave at 930. However, we do expect a group of people to stay overnight at the venue, so we'll still have drinks and things to do for the small number who stays.
I think it totally depends on if your guests are traveling or not. There is no way I would stay at a reception till 10:30 if I had an hour or two drive home that night. Unless someone was family or a REALLY close friend, I would have a hard time taking a day off of work for the wedding. My job just isn't that flexible and with the economy the way it is, I need to keep it! I would say I wouldn't want to get home after midnight if I had to work the next day. So, if I had a 3 hour drive, I would shoot to leave by 10 pm. Make sure you provide coffee!
The last Sunday wedding we went to started at like 2 in the afternoon and wrapped up around 7 so it gave most of us OOT guests time to do the 5 hour drive home. We are all young and just starting our careers so not a lot of our group can afford to take the day off of work and/or pay an extra $100 for a hotel.
Bottom line, it depends on your crowd.
Well, I don't know...BUT if I was going to your wedding, I'd leave at 830pm. Even if i was local.
I work at 630 or 7am in the morning...i like to be in bed by 1030. Leaving at 830 or 9 at the latest would ensure I don't look like hell the next day. A lot of people have to be at work before 8am.
My guests were leaving at 9-ish (the older ones anyways) for my SATURDAY night wedding. I'd imagine you'd be left with just a handful by 1030 on a Sunday night.
At our Sunday reception (which started 5 pm), people started leaving at 8 pm. I think all the guests were gone before 9 pm, and we were all cleaned up and heading back home by 9:30 pm. It will depend a little bit on when you do your cake cutting (because people often stay at least until that point), but I would say most people would leave between 8 and 9 pm, especially if they are families with kids.
I voted for 10:30 because that doesn't really seem all that late to me. I think that's a pretty reasonable time for a Sunday wedding.
i voted 9, but realistically Id leave around 8:30. I went to a sunday wedding last year. The ceremony started around 5 I think. We were out of there as soon as we finished eating. It was like a 2 hour drive back to the city (wedding was near san diego). And, nearly 70% of the guests left with us. I heard later the bride was really upset, but sunday weddings are really hard for a lot of people.
Unless you have a lot of people flying in town or it is a short drive (less than 30 minutes), I wouldnt expect too many people to stay past 9. Sorry.
My friend had a sunday wedding and a lot of people stayed until 11:00. There were a lot of family and friends from out of town and they took monday off. I dont think a sunday or saturday wedding is much different for people out of town, either way you have to take a day off. I sure hope people do not leave your wedding around 8:00, that is sooo early and kind of rude. If you make the effort to go to a wedding you shouldnt eat and run. I think it depends on the crowd of people. If it is a younger crowd I doubt people are going to be leaving that early.
thank you for your opinions!
i actually don't mind ending it at 9 or 9:30, because i understand that people have to get up early next day to go to work etc.
i asked because i want to hold the reception at the hotel's courtyard, but will have to move into its banquet room which is right next to the courtyard at a certain time in order not to distrub hotel guests with loud music. so i was wondering whether i should even spend money on decorating/setting up the banquet room if guests will most likely leave around 9pm.
I voted 9, but I think they would actually start leaving earlier than that. Ive never been to a Sunday wedding where the guests hung around for a long time.
I originally was planning a Sunday and then switched to Saturday for that reason.
Could you maybe cut the cake around 8:30, expect most guests to leave by 9, 9:30 and then around then move inside and make it kind of like an "after party" I would think at that point you would have the guests that flew in and the younger guests. I don't know that I would worry about decorating.
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my reception will start at 5:30pm and will have to end the night at 10:30pm.
my question is that, since it'll be a sunday night reception and people will have to work the next morning, will they actually stay till 10:30? if not, what time do guests usually start leaving for a sunday night?