10.30pm too early for a wedding reception to finish?

[mumzy]

Yeah I would definitly let everyone know on the invites of the end time for other arrangments, like babysitters or transport to another place.


I plan to do the bride and groom go early too, so I guess that would be about 10pm

[NaeNae]

Mine also finished at 10.30 and was a Sunday wedding.

Our guests appreciated the fact that it was early so they didn't feel bad about leaving early as even for those that had to travel they were still home at a decent hour.

FWIW - you don't need to specify an end time on the invites the way the evening pans out things just happen to end. We did our "leaving thing" at 10.20pm but the cab was late so we sat and hid in a special room all our guests were gone by 10.50 and the venue was fine with that.

Nae x

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I had a Saturday wedding and I left at 10-30-11ish on mine. People partied on until the small hours.

A friend of mine put a finishing time on her invites. We left her wedding before 11pm anyway due to babysitters. But she finished hers earlier at 11.30 because it was winding down anyway by then.

[BrightSparkles]

Ours is a friday wedding and out reception is finishing at 9pm so people can o or head to the other bar if they want to keep drink...but we'll be outta there

[*Ali*]

We also had a sunday wedding and it finished up at 10:30, all of our guests that wanted to party on headed to a bar at the hotel we were staying at. We went down for few drinks, but I was pretty exhausted by then so we didnt hang around.
We did start our pre- dinner drinks at 5:30, so really by 10:30 it had been a pretty long day.

[mumzy]

THANKS EVERYONE

For all your input

If having a 10.30pm finish how would the rest of the days timing be?
Ceremony and reception probably will be in same place.

1pm Ceremony
2pm approx finish
2.30-4pm photos with canapes for quest while gone
4.30pm Reception start
10.30pm finish

Does that sound normal?

What would be the 4.30 to 10.30pm reception schedule of speeches, food, cake etc

[feeb]

Ours was: (all same place)

1530 ceremony on invites (I arrived 1600 as always planned)

1630 ceremony complete

1645 start of photos (photos all in grounds of venue, DH and I did go for short horse and carriage ride together also)

1715 start of canapes and drinks

1800 photos finished

1815 guests seated

1830 bridal party seated

1840 entree served

1920 mains served

2000 speeches (my dad, FIL, DH and I, best man, matron of honour)

2030 first dance and cutting of cake

music and dancing till 2130

2130 desert

2140 music and dancing

2215 good byes

these are approxamite times that we had. The function co ordinator and venue were very good and running to schedule we had meeting with her a week before to discuss what would happen where and when)