Hi ladies.
My wedding is in a month and I just had my final meeting with our photographer. We're planning to take the photos that don't require me and my fiance to see each other before the ceremony, but I'm really, really nervous that we won't have enough time to take the rest of the pictures between the ceremony and reception. When we were deciding on a time for the ceremony (the reception starts at 7:30pm), I suggested 5:30pm so that we'd have time to take photos. But my mother essentially told me that I was being selfish, that our guests would have to sit around and wait for too long if I did that. So I didn't and set the ceremony for 6pm, and I'm really regretting listening to her now. Now even if everything/everyone is on time, the ceremony is over by 6:20 and the receiving line by 6:35, we'll only have 25 minutes to take photos before we need to leave for the reception!! And we couldn't afford to have a cocktail hour, so if we're late we're eating into our 4 hour reception.
What do you all think? We're not interested in taking a ton of posed photos (we took a ton of engagement photos which we love), but I feel like it will be completely impossible for us to not miss at least 30 minutes of the reception we paid so much money for. UGH.