How long is your ceremony?

id012 · May 2012

I met with a JP last night and she told me that she likes her ceremonys to take no longer then 10 mins. I felt like that was really short.. I mean this is kind of a big deal, and its going to be a 10 min thing and then over! I was expectling like 20 mins?

And that was after I had said we wanted to do a sand thing which she said will take about 4 mins.. so her orginal ceremony only takes 6 mins?

It just seems so little to me, but maybe thats the norm? Iv been to plenty of weddings, most in churchs so they always take a long time.

how long are you planning your ceremony to take?

And does that mean from the time your mom gets escorted in to the time you walk out the doors? Or just the jp doing her thing?

Thanks!

KSwen719 · May 2012

My JP said that without the sand thing or anything similar, we'd be looking at about 10ish minutes from the time my dad gives me away to the time we're pronounced husband and wife. We decided to also read poems/song lyrics to each other, which will make it probably around 15-18 minutes, depending on the length of our readings and how much I'm crying! Plus a few minutes to get in, and a few minutes to get applauded and out. To me, that seems like enough. If you want to draw it out a bit (because you're right, it's important and significant) maybe have someone read something, or read something to each other like we're doing.

HobokensFury · May 2012

I think the 10 mins is for the generic ceremony. If you add personalized touches like readings or poems it will be longer. We created our own ceremony with our officiant and it was about 30 minutes. You don't want it to be to long but I think 10 minutes is way to short.

Annas2013 · May 2012

We're going to have a short ceremony. It'll probably be between 10 and 20 minutes, only because we're not going to have readings or anything like that. We may do a unity ceremony, but aren't sure yet. I don't see the problem with a short ceremony, but I also don't see the problem with a longer one. It's your ceremony, so make it however short or long you want.

Anything over 40 minutes seems excessive to me though.

lopezalonso · May 2012

Our ceremony is actually 45-60 min but that's because we are having a Catholic ceremony in a church and the wedding ceremony occurs within the context of a mass.

Lisa50 · May 2012

Ours lasted about 20 minutes, but we designed the ceremony, not the officiant.

misssunshine17 · May 2012

Ten minutes is really short, it's like a drive by. I was in two weddings this past summer and one of them was 12 minutes timed from processional to recessional- it was SO short, my mother (I was MOH) said it felt like so much effort to come down (she drove two hours) for so short. Not saying she was right, because obviously, they got married and that's why we were there, but it was over very quickly.

vexie · May 2012

To me a 10 minute ceremony is just too short. They have such an 'in and out.. just get it done' feeling to them. Ours was a bit on the longer side. 45 minutes after the mothers got seated we were all outside getting a group photo taken,so I'd guess the actual ceremony was 35'ish minutes.

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