Hello there!
My fiance and I are getting married at Boscobel House & Gardens in Garrison, NY in May 2012. We absolutely fell in love with the place when we went to see it and can't wait to go back in a month to see how beautiful it is in May!
Boscobel rents you their grounds for a five-hour block, with a hard stop at 10pm, so our wedding is going to be from 5pm-10pm, including both the ceremony and reception. Even though the 10pm stop seemed a little early for us, we figured we could always head over to the nearby town of Cold Spring with our wedding party and a few other friends and do a little afterparty at a local bar or something.
My question is this: What's a good timeline for 5 hours with a ceremony and reception? I'd be especially interested in hearing from any former or current Boscobel brides on how they managed this, particularly if you did a more casual, local afterparty at the end. Our wedding ceremony is probably going to be about 20 minutes, and I'd like to have a little bit of time for cocktails before dinner, but I also want to give people plenty of time to have dinner and dance. Thoughts/advice?
Thanks much!