Catholic Ceremony - Times

My church ceremony will also start at 2. I'm having my reception start at 3, I figure it will take everyone that amount of time to get there

I struggled with our timeline as well because i didn't want a gap, but i didn't want a super early dinner either. we have to do a 2 p.m. service because the priest has a 4 p.m. mass. so we are doing 2 p.m. service, followed by receiving line/greeting guests outside the church. it's about a 20 minute drive to the reception, so we are starting that at 4 p.m. cocktails from 4-5:30. everyone enters, we announce bridal party and do a welcome, salad course served at 6. doing our first dance around 6:20 followed a dance set, dinner will be served around 7.

We had mass at 2pm so at 245pm invited everyone to Hell for ice cream and then a nearby pub, taking photos with our guests. Then to the reception venue at 5pm for cocktail hour, reception at 6pm.

Ceremony was at 3, Cocktail hour started at 4.

Our ceremony starts at 2 and will be a full mass plus extras (Mexican cultural stuff) then cocktail hour will follow and dinner will be served at 5/5:30.

Hi! We had a catholic ceremony without mass at 2:00. It took about 45 minutes and our reception was 20 minutes away.

Cocktails and munchies were served until 4:30 at which point we were announced, danced, did the cake cutting and speeches. Dinner was at 5 and late night food was at 8. Our reception ended at 10. I hope this was helpful!

I don't think 2:00 is too early at all! I am going to a formal catholic wedding this fall that starts at 9:00AM! Attire is "Formal Brunch" which makes no sense to me. Just keep the vibe of the wedding appropriate with the time of day and don't have a huge gap. With that in mind, pick whatever time works best when you think of how you want the day to go.

Catholic ceremony at 5. Cocktail hour at 6:30.

Tomorrow we have a Catholic wedding we're attending. Ceremony at 3pm. Cocktail hour at 7:30pm.

We just had a catholic ceremony. The latest time our parish would do the ceremony was 1:30 so our timeline looked like this:

1:30 ceremony

3:00 social

5:00 reception room opens

5:45 supper

6:45 cake

7:30-11 dance

It was actually kind of nice having an early reception because I am not a night owl and your day starts so early with a Catholic ceremony

The church I'm getting married at usually suggests weddings to start at 1:30-2. But I begged for 2:30 and they agreed even though they have a 4 o'clock mass.

I’m having this same problem and it’s stressing me out 😞 my church the latest they do is noon. And the reception is being held at my parents private residence. If I have the reception right after it would be at the hottest time of day in Florida and people will be sweating and miserable. I don’t know what to do.