Ceremony walk down timing

When I spoke to our ceremony pianist, he said most weddings really only need 3 songs: bridal party, bride, and recessional. He told me the guys don't need music lol.

We're still deciding on our music. So far I have the song I'd like my bridal party and myself walk down to. We still have to decide what the groom/groomsmen/officiant will walk down to. We're not having parents/grandparents walking down the aisle.

We haven't fully gone over our ceremony but we're thinking it'll be around 20 minutes; we're not super religious or doing anything out of the norm.

With the processional, ceremony, and recessional, I think the entire ceremony will be around 30-40 mins. We have 5 on each side and 2 flower girls.

It does include the processional. Unless you have a huge wedding party or a really long aisle, the processional doesn’t take long at all and the recessional is even shorter

Our ceremony will be just about 30 minutes in total, from the processional to the recessional. I have one song playing for the wedding party to walk down to that fades into my grand entrance song (horse and carriage - such a dream!!), then that fades into the song I’ll walk down the aisle to with my father. Overall, I’m only expecting all of that to be between 4-5 minutes. That 5 minutes includes the aisle walks for our officiant, my mom, groom/his mom, 3 bridesmaids/groomsmen, then my dad and me. Anything longer than that and you risk losing the interest of your guests. We don’t have music playing in the background during our ceremony, and we have one recessional song. Hope that helps!

I'm having one song for the bridal party entrance and one song for my entrance which will be tje same song as we exit

Our ceremony was about 30 minutes long. My B wanted his own song which was only about 20 seconds of Justin Timberlake-Suit & Tie but he picked out a specific part to be played. I had a song for our parents and it faded into the bridal party song which the flower girl and ring bearer also went down to. My song and then the recessional.

If you want different songs for when your bridal party walk down then you, then go for it even if it will be a short bit of the songs that is played.

I had both mothers, the best woman and the matron of honor (we both only had one person stand next to us) walk down to one song then it changed to a different one for me. Both songs never got to their half way mark, the bridal party song maybe got to a minute with three different sets of people walking, mine barely got to thirty second. (I honestly don't remember hearing my song playing but it's a good cue for everyone else) If your aisle is longer or you walk really slowly you can stretch your song out more but then you risk the guests getting disinterested for a moment.
Our dj played the recessional song all the way to it's end since it was a great up beat song and it got the party started on a good note. (it also got laughs from our guests because who would expect a Queen song to close the ceremony)
All told, my ceremony was between 15 and 20 minutes, but it felt like it lasted forever lol.

We have separate songs for all of the following for our ceremony: grandparents & parents walk, processional (bridal party), bride walk, unity ceremony, and recessional. Our DJ will be playing all of the music, so I assume they know when to fade the songs and go onto the next.

From start to finish our ceremony was 25 minutes, we had a Catholic ceremony without a mass. I chose a song for the bridal party (cannon in d) everyone except me walked down to that. It transitioned into the bridal march (more elegant than just the standard version) when it was my turn. Then we had the wedding march for the recessional.