My FI & I are really close to setting a date. We're putting deposits down for the Church & reception venue this weekend. However, we've had difficulty trying to figure out what time to have our ceremony. We're getting married on a Friday, so we want the ceremony to be later in the day. The Church is in Bristol & the reception venue is in Newport (the Hyatt on Goat Island). The cocktail hour would be scheduled to start at 6 PM, with the reception following at 7. We want to make sure that we have plenty of time for pictures & everything, but at the same time we don't want to have a huge gap in between the ceremony & the reception. At this point, we're talking about doing the ceremony at 4:30 but I'm just not sure if we should move it up to 4:00 just to be on the safe side. We're planning on doing the short version, not the full Catholic mass. How much time should there be between the ceremony & the reception? Do you think we'd be cutting it a bit close if we did the ceremony at 4:30 & the reception at 7?Sorry for the long post!! I'd love any & all feedback!Thanks so much!! :)Dana