Hi Ladies! This is my first time posting on this board. I've been lurking here for a while. I'm hoping you can give me some advice!
My FI and I are getting married on June 2nd. Our ceremony starts at 2:30 in the afternoon. We are not going to have a full mass because I am not Catholic. Our reception starts at 6:00 pm. The church and the reception site are about 30-40 minutes apart. I can't imagine our ceremony going past 3:30, and even accounting for 20-30 minutes for everyone to leave the church, that still means that there will be 1.5-2 hours to kill before the reception starts. There is no way to move the reception start time up any earlier, and we obviously cannot start the ceremony any later.
Do I need to provide some other form of entertainment for this period of time? I've been to 3 other Catholic weddings that had this amount of down time and I didn't think it was a big deal, but I'm afraid that if people end up going home/back to their hotels, then they won't come to the reception...
Cliff's notes: do I need to book something to entertain my guests for 1.5-2 hours between ceremony and reception? TIA!