How late is acceptable to start your wedding ceremony?
April 20, 2010 by cakewalk
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Mine was at 6pm, so why not?
Sure, but no skipping on serving dinner! Dinner should be at 8 or 8:30 in this case.
You can start your ceremony at any time, but if you are starting it at 7, plan to have a really short reception. Very likely, you would have to skip any dancing.
7 Seems fine to me.
I would skip a full sit down dinner and just provide finger food, and a big dessert table for people to snack on throughout the night.
Depends where you are as I know that in the UK a wedding must take place between 8a.m and 6p.m. If outside of the UK then check your applicable laws.
I will tell you what my cousin did for her wedding.
She had is start at 5:00 at the Hilton hotel outside. Then at 6:00 we went inside the hotel, and ordorves were served before we were seated for an hour. Then at 6:45 Everyone sat down. 7:00, the wedding party walks in. 8:00 we eat our main meal 9:00 was cake
then dancing, drinking, and all that stuff to midnight.
So if you can’t have it at five, I suggest you do it at sunset, that would be really pretty. But it is fine, and once people are drunk they don’t care what time it is, they just want to drink and party all night long
Mine was at 7. My cousin’s was at 7. It is a perfectly wonderful time to get married. Your reception will start at 8 and you should tell them to allow people to start eating when they get there–not wait on you–if you are having a buffet.
An evening wedding will last a lot longer than a morning wedding will. People show up for a noon wedding, they stay maybe an hour or so b/c they have other plans for the day. An evening wedding, that IS the plan for the evening. Make sure you plan everything for your photographer. I planned a fake exit so that the photographer could take her pictures and get out of there.
The party was still going strong at midnight. Tons of dancing. Tons of alcohol. A huge party. Most of the under 30 all went to the afterparty too.
It will be a lot bigger party than an afternoon wedding would be so you have to have good food. Also a 7pm wedding would be considered a formal wedding. It would be weird if you and your bridesmaids were all casual.
I knew someone who had their wedding right after sunset (so around 8:30) so they could have candles everywhere (they had it by a pool so they had floating candles throughout the entire pool and it was very nice). And nobody minded about it being late. They were nice enough to provide a place for all the guests to meet at before the wedding though and provided some finger foods. But most of the guests had a small meal before and then at the reception they had finger foods.
You can have your wedding whenever you would like, but remember that if you are serving a meal at the reception you might not want to make that too late.
Sure, why not? But maybe you could even do 6:30. The reception of your wedding wouldn’t be able to last very long if you had your ceremony really late.