1 Hour Reception OK?

I don't think it's long enough to even visit with the guests and it's not enough time to eat.

It's only available for a guest list of less than 50, but I was nervous it may be too brief as well so thanks for the feedback!

I don't think that'll be enough time to have a light meal with a bar. Are you having speeches, bouquet/garter toss, first dance, etc.? It sounds really tight.

Do you have a small guestlist? I would advise against one hour. You still have to factor in the guest actually getting the food and sitting down to eat it. Everyone will not be able to get their plates at the same time.

It sounds too short to me. I appreciate that you've thought about having it an a non-meal time, and your guest's travel time, but I would at least consider 2-3 hours for your reception.

At this point I think we'd have to skip all of the speeches, tosses, etc. Maybe just immediately join the guests following the ceremony and mingle. No DJ, house music from the venue played and then it would be over. It would require sacrificing a lot of usual wedding elements.But I don't want to feel rushed and wouldn't want the guests to feel rushed either. It almost seems like that would be the case.

1-hour sounds too short. I would say you need at 2-3 hours

I feel like it might make everything feel rushed.

That one hour would go by way too fast. It would definitely seem super rushed.

IMO, you will feel very rushed if the reception is only 1 hour.

If we do full dinner they'll give us 3 hours and a cocktail hour so I think I'll stick with that route. Thanks for your feedback everyone!

IMO I agree you will feel rushed. I felt rushed with 4 hours and 83 guests.

That's way too short. When I go out to dinner with a group we are there for longer than an hour. You want to be able to talk to guests, eat, drink, and have fun. There's no way you can do that in an hour and I think guests would not appreciate coming to a wedding that's over in an hour.

I would see if you can extend it another hour or so. That way nothing is rushed and you can spend time with everyone.

Definitely need more time

People will come to this wedding with an expectation to party mingle and drink

That's not enough time

It seems like too short of a time, you won't be able to mingle with all your guests within that time frame

One hour seems way too short. You won't even be able to talk to your guests. What's the rush?

My reception was 1 hour (open bar, passed houderves and an hourderve table, cake)and was perfectly fine. Everyone ate mingled and drank. However we didnt do a garter toss, bouquet toss, and only had our first dance. No other dancing. We also had a guest list of less than 30.

I think you're very wise to go back to the original three hour reception and cocktail hour. Not only are you avoiding a mad rush, possible disappointment from your guests who might not have traveled for a one hour reception, but you'd be shortening your own celebration so much that you'd probably regret it for years to come. The BAM posts always include, "The day really does fly by...", and that's what they say after five or six hours; consider what they'd say if it were only an hour long.

I really think your venue's one hour intimate package is only suitable for a specific type of wedding -- as in, it's a drinks and dinner reception that includes the couple, parents, grandparents, siblings, attendants, and a small handful of friends -- 25 people, max. I just can't see it working with medium to large sized weddings.

I think one hour is too short! How will you be able to visit with all your guests? I had my bridal shower with only 14 girls and that was 3-4 hours and I still had a difficult time properly visiting with everyone there!