What time does your venue require you to shut it down

My venue required that the guests were gone and the venue picked up by 11pm due to county rules.

Mine is midnight so it isn't that crazy to me. I went to a wedding recently where we had to leave by 10:30. I assume that it closed at 11 and they had to clean up. However, we just went to the hotel for the after party and it was a blast.

Maybe you can extend the party that way.

Mine requires everything to end at 11 but they don't charge if we go over...

Lisa c thats actually a really good idea! how did you get from the reception venue to a hotel or was it in the same place?

Our town (and most towns, I think) have a noise ordinance that kicks in at a certain time. Ours was 10 pm so we had to have the music off by then. We thought it easiest to just end the reception at that time, and we did the same as Lisa, most of our guests just continued partying over at the hotel. We provided a shuttle so people could get there safely!

My venue requires a end by 11: 30 time which is fine..i figure by then i'll be exhausted!

Justine:

Well we were in a historic area. So the hotel was a few blocks. We basically took over the whole historic hotel. Then we walked a couple blocks to the outdoor museume where they married and had their reception. At the end of the evening, we walked back.

The hotel was very lenient because the whole place was booked with the wedding party. They have approx 25 rooms.

The groomsmen rented a big suite with a balcony. They had an after bar, the rest of the wedding cupcakes and snacks. It was a BLAST!

I think we all stumbled to our rooms around 4ish.

For our wedding, we are getting married on the beach at a beach house/hall and then we are all staying at a seperate hotel.

So we are heading back to do to the same tho I imagine on a different scale because we can't take over the whole place (it's huge). There is however a huge beach bar next door open till 3am so we can stumble there if noise is an issue and walk back.

MIDNIGHT.

I'm at a county park, so it's music off at 9, out by 10. I was fine with that.

Noise ordnance requires 10pm and we must be completely gone by 11pm. We are getting married on a Sunday so I don't think that will be a problem. We picked a hotel with a bar though so people could hang out there afterwards if they wanted.

Our place makes us end by 11 and have it cleaned out by 12.

We have to be out by midnight... So we are thinking to have the last dance at 11pm

Mine is 10. A little early but I am okw ith it because I know I am going to be tired any way and ready to spend my fisrt night with my hubby

"early" shut downs could be due to city laws. I had an late morning ceremony and our reception was done by 4 (we got a 5% discount for ending by 4).

It ends at 10 but we are continuing the party at the hotel that has a bar

Ok well this is making feel better! I thought people would expect it to go till 1 or 2 in the morning. The venue is away from any cities but maybe a bus could work to shuttle!

Thanks girls you are the best!

We're in a city park so everything needs to be cleaned up and out by 10:30. Good luck

Per our contract, 1:00 am.

Ours didn't have a time to be out by, the noise wasn't an issue because you couldn't hear the dj from outside. Our cocktail hour was at 4 so we didn't expect a lot of people to be left by midnight and there wasn't but the people that were left were still enjoying themselves, we probably had about 40 people left for our last dance at 11:30 and we started cleanind up around 12 and were all out of there at 12:30. It depends on your crowd and if you have an open bar lol

We only had our reception site for 4 hours (not including set-up and clean-up time). It started at 7, so we were supposed to be done by 11. Everyone told me 4 hours was plenty of time, but, to be honest, I could have partied longer! Almost everyone guest was still there at 11!