What Happens Right After the Ceremony??

Are you doing pics right after? Is traveling to the reception venue required?

Some couples do a receiving line ( we are not) . Others take pics then join cocktail hour/reception.

Sorry, I should've provided more details. Ceremony and reception are in the same location- outdoor garden style venue. We are doing photos around the venues while guests enjoy cocktail hour. So yes, pics right after!

We snuck back to the limo and sat there smiling like idiots at each other for about 5 minutes alone. Then the rest of the wedding party piled back into the limo, we opened the champagne, and had a fun ride over to the reception.

We had our ceremony outside. Then the guests went inside and all the VIPs stayed in the garden for pictures. DH and I went off by ourselves for a minute to take in the fact that we had just gotten married!

We have a carriage ride lined up where the photographer will follow along to get pics. The carriage will drop us right off at the reception.

That's a good idea Emma, I think it'd be nice to run off and have a few moments to ourselves before jumping right into photos.

We went and signed our marriage certificate, had a moment alone, then joined the cocktail hour.

We signed our certificate, of course, and then lingered around for a little while with guests. Then we got in a private cab with our photographer.

We got married outside and walked up to the top of the aisle. A lot of people gave us quick hugs and there were a lot of congratulations. We then let the guests enjoy cocktail hour and we went and took pictures.

We quickly took some family photos (immediate and extended). Then went back to the bridal suite to sign some photos and eat. Then we went into our cocktail hour for 5 minutes because I desperately wanted to hear the string quartet we hired. Came back to the bridal suite for some alone time until it was time to head into the reception.

We took a few moments to ourselves while everyone else transitioned to cocktails. there was an awesome airstream trailer parked at our venue that they use as a groom's suite, so we hid some champagne there and ran out there after the recessional, had a drink and just spent a few minutes alone together, basically processing our emotions. it was super nice and i would recommend it! then we rejoined the party. (we had done most of our posed photos before the ceremony)

We are going to take photos and then our venue provides a personal cocktail hour in our bridal suite just for the bridal party while the guests are at their cocktail hour in another room. (Which I love because it gives us room to breath a bit and not be consumed by too many people) Then its party time at the reception!

Our ceremony and reception were in the same location. Our photographer told us after ceremony to go right to bridal suite so we could have a few minutes together. Our DOC brought us some food and drinks. Then we did pictures as a couple before family pictures. It was nice to have some time together to celebrate privately before we joined everyone else.

Our wedding is in a barn. One end is where the ceremony will be, the other end will be the reception. Once the ceremony is over, my FH and I will leave the barn to be alone with each other for 10----15mins. While we are outside, everyone will be finding their seats. Once we get back in we can start eating etc..

We had to do family pictures right after the ceremony. So we hid while our guests went to cocktail hour, then took pics. Then we're introduced at our reception. Our cocktail hour was only 45 minutes.

We are having an intimate ceremony, so we're basically doing the kiss, and then everyone will get up for photos (all guests are immediate family, so we want all of them in our pics) which we're doing in the same (beautiful) space as the ceremony.

We are going to stick around to greet guests outside of the church for awhile and then take some couples photos while the guests head over to the reception venue for cocktails.

Our ceremony and reception were at the same venue. We (the bridal party and our parents) recessed back to the place where we entered the ceremony from -- it was off to the side, away from guests. The staff had champagne toasts and a tray of hors d'oeuvres for us. We did a toast and then started pictures! We "released" parents and bridal party into the cocktail hour pretty quickly and spent most of the time on couples portraits since we did a first look (we had hoped to do all the bridal party and parent pictures before the wedding but DH's mom was 30 minutes late ((eye roll)) which threw off our timeline).

We left to sign the certificate with our witnesses. Then we came back for confetti and had a few moments with our guests at the cocktail hour cos the photographer said the light was a bit sharp still. Then off for our photographs.

Our ceremony and reception were on the same property. After our outdoor ceremony, we exited the ceremony space and had our officiant announce that guests should proceed to the barn where we had cocktail hour. Immediate family and BP stayed behind for group pictures. When group pictures were done, DH and I took our pictures, then the photographer went to take a break and we took some time to ourselves before going up to start the reception.