Time out! How much time between your ceremony and reception?

1 hour! We’ll be having a cocktail hour and hopefully FH and I will make it to the whole thing since we’re doing a first look

Ceremony: 5-5:30

Cocktail hour: 5:45-6:45 (they were at different locations so that is why there was a small gap.)

Reception: 6:45-10:45

If cocktail hour isn't included as part of the reception, then we had an hour and fifteen minutes between! If it is included, we had 15 minutes between since they were at different locations.

Ceremony is 4-4:30
cocktail hour: 4:30-5:30
dinner/reception: 5:30-9:30

all is at the same location, so we really won’t be having a gap

We have a one hour cocktail hour with hors d'oeuvres and lawn games between the ceremony and reception.

I'm still debating between 45 minutes and an hour! We will have 90% of the photos done before the ceremony so the cocktail hour will be for the last 10% of photos with select family and just enjoying being married!

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Ooh that sounds nice! I personally would lean toward an hour because if you've got time left over, you could either join cocktail hour or take some time to yourselves and just bask in the newlywed-ness!

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I was actually thinking about doing one of those! I thought about joining cocktail hour so we don't have to go table-by-table during the reception!

Our ceremony is from 2:30-3ish. Cocktail hour starts at 5. Theres really not much that could be done to avoid having the gap. We built in an hour for travel in case folks get lost. I know it isnt ideal at all. But it is what I is!

Everything is being held in the same room so there won't really be a gap. Our guests will be able to snack on appetizers and stuff during the hour we'll be taking pictures and then dinner as soon as we're done!

One hour! It's gonna be in the same place so we don't need a really big gap between both

We dont have a break .... we are going from the ceremony right into our first dance

About an hour and a half. The ceremony should end at 3 and the reception will begin at 4:30. During that time we will be taking photos (regrettably almost ALL of the family photos 🤯).
we’ll get there at around 4:45 to 5 for our grand entrance & then dinner will begin.

We need about a half hour travel time between the church and the reception venue. But since it is hard to know how long communion will take (never know exactly how many people will take it) or how long the receiving line will take on the way out of the church, the caterer will have cocktail hour ready for the shortest possible ceremony timing (about 15 minutes before our estimated end time) plus travel - so at 5:15 and we will begin seating at 6:15 with the soup course already on the tables for everyone. So if you dont include cocktail hour as part of the reception (though all of our contracts include it as the reception and it is in the same room as the rest of the reception just on one end that will also be used for dessert and dancing - narrow L shaped room) then we have an hour 15 minute - an hour and a half gap. But we definitely consider it part of the reception so it is really a 15 - 30 minute break - just enough time for people to drive there.

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That's nice, Jenay! Are you doing a cocktail hour or taking family pictures during that time?

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But at least you've got a good plan in place, Lafuturasenora!! Do you think you'll be taking pictures until 4:30 and then have time for yourselves or that you'll still be taking pictures until 4:45/5?

View Quoted Comment Its gonna be a mixture of both so we can get some pictures and my family and his family can get to know each other and he can meet some of my friends!

View Quoted Comment Im kind of planning us to get there at 5 because of travel time and I’m sure something will come up 🙄🙄🙄 who knows lol! I decided we can do most the family pictures right after the ceremony. Then maybe a few bride/groom ones. But a timeline I found online has a block of time at sunset reserved for a second set of photos and I think I love that idea to take that time for bride groom photos at sunset. 😄

Our ceremony and reception are at the same venue (outdoor ceremony weather dependent) and reception in a barn). We are planning to separate them with a cocktail hour.

Hopefully only an hour or so. I don't want our out of town guests to not have no idea of where to go. I'm hoping to talk my fiancee into having the ceremony in the same place as the reception to save time with pics and stuff. For some reason he wants it in a church even though neither of us go

View Quoted Comment I live that idea!! Thanks for sharing!!