Dear fellow brides,
Sorry for the long post but I need some advice. Hopefully I put down enough info. My wedding is going to be a Friday night because the church where we are having the wedding and reception has service on Saturdays. Both FI and I thought it would just be weird to have it on a Saturday during church. Here is what we are running into. I want people to stay and have a great time but my mom says that a lot of people won't come or won't stay long because they worked all day. I am just having a hard time thinking of all the money we are spending to have people leave right away.
So here is my question, how do I do a timeline that works best? I don't want to have the wedding too early because then people will have to call off work or be late. But if I don't then the reception Is going to be late and people will be hungry from working.
My thoughts were to have music start at 6, wedding at 6:30. Wedding will be over by 7. We will dismiss rows so that takes care of the receiving line. Then do our "getaway". So people will be in the reception area by like 7:30. Dinner starts at 8pm. Is that too late? We won't be having alcohol. We are getting all pictures done before the wedding except for any with the two of us together. I figured that wouldn't take too long.
If it is too late for a full dinner what are some other suggestions? I thought about putting on the invites that the wedding will be at 6:30 and dinner will be served at 8 in case people come for the reception only. I also thought about doing just appetizers and dessert but would that still be classy?