I know there is a similar post on here right now about this but I think this is a little different. We are trying to figure out how many hours to get our photographer for. The wedding will be starting at 5 and then when have our venue for 4hrs for the reception. So give or take our reception will start about 5:30 and be over about 9:30 unless we pay for an extra hour. So if we stick to schedule that's 4 1/2 hours. If we go with with 6hrs the photographer will be there about 1 1/2 before the wedding starts of if we go with 8 it will be 3 1/2 hours before the wedding starts. How early did you have your photographer get this or are planning on them getting there before the ceremony starts?