For some who know me, I am currently tossing up whether to continue with my big wedding plans or downsize significantly. My family are encouraging me to keep going on as planned. Our ceremony is booked to be in the reception space but I would prefer to separate them in different venues (for a few reasons) and am now evaluating how much of a gap to leave between them. Here is the scenario...
You are invited to a wedding which will have an outdoor (park) ceremony followed by a black tie reception in a Victorian ballroom. As a guest, for your convenience, would you prefer, for the duration between the ceremony and reception (start of cocktail hour), to have:
a small gap of time to allow for transit between venues but meaning that you will need to be dressed for the reception at the ceremony; or
a larger gap of time (2-3hours) in which you can go home and change, or do your own thing in the meantime nearby?
For context, this is in early summer, the park location is in a flat, partly shaded area with neat trimmed grass located less than a 2 minute walk from the pavement, and the reception venue is approximately 15-30 minutes away dependent on traffic.