NER - ceremony start time

emeejeeayen

Seems like I missed some fun drama here on TK today while I was at work. Alas, moving along.

Thoughts on having a wedding at 5pm? Full sit down dinner, ceremony and reception at the same place. So timeline we're looking at is 5:30-6:30 for cocktail hour, dinner will start shortly after that. August in northern California, but not in San Francisco directly (so likely hot, but cooler at night).

Any arguments against this plan before I order invites? 

AddieCake

Is it on Saturday? if so, looks good to me.

StephJean83

I attended a wedding in November in Iowa that was at 2 separate locations with the ceremony starting at 5pm. I think their timeline was 5pm for the ceremony, 6pm start of cocktail hour and dinner at 7pm. Dancing and fun once dinner was finished. During dinner they did spotlight dances and cake cutting.

vanityink

August 4th is a Sunday? I would be fine with that, especially since I wouldn't be able to stay too late with work in the morning.

emeejeeayen

We polled our guests, and they'd rather take off Monday than Friday given flight times of travel from NYC. So, our wedding is on a Sunday, but nearly everyone is taking off Monday. (Plus, our group tends to party mid-week - don't ask me how because I'm a baby that goes to bed at 10pm - so they wouldn't care as long as they were back home by 1am.)

kathrynrf

Our wedding is on a Saturday and our ceremony will not start at 6:30 PM. Cocktail hour will run from 7-8 and dinner will start at 830 PM. It is late, but our only other option for the venue that we fell in love with was a day wedding. They do two per day. If our wedding had been a Sunday, however, we would have done a day ceremony out of respect for our guests. We would not have wanted people to have to pick between taking time off from work and staying late to party with us. Overall you have to make a decision based on what you want and if that would work for the people you are inviting to your wedding.