3pm wedding timetable

Hey, it sounds ok. if it starts at 3 ppl will generally have had lunch before coming so just having one meal is fine.

i had a similar thread recently - https://www.hitched.co.uk/Chat/forums/p/173381/1731985.aspx#1731985

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3.00 – 3.30 ceremony

3.30 – 4.30 welcome drinks/photographs

4.30 – 5.00 speeches

5.00 - 7.00 wedding breakfast

7.00pm evening reception (no buffet)

thats mine atm, am thinking i may need slightly more photography time though

Our daughter is marrying at 3pm at the venue. So they have a similar timetable - ceremony over by 4ish, photos, drinks reception, followed by hot buffet reception served around 6pm.

They will also be having pie and peas served around 9pm. They aren't bothering with a "separate" evening reception as everyone is invited all day so it's just kinda merging from one into the other.

Disco till midnight but I think they have an extension till 1am if they want.

This is the timings from my venue who hold 75 weddings a year

This is very similar to what we are having. Our ceremony is at 2.30 (but we are having a blessing afterwards), so that we hopefully won't need to feed people again. Nothing wrong with having a buffet either!

Due you think people will eat lunch before if the ceremony is at 2.30??

This is basically what we're having too, except that we are serving the starters as canapes outside after the ceremony, which means we can cut the sit down meal by about half an hour (it starts at 5) and have a longer drinks/photo session.

Thanks everyone!!

So.. Based on the comments, I am thinking that it's important to communicate plans to people with children etc who need to eat earlier and the few diabetics in the family (to avoid any hypos!) but then to just go with it.

I really like the 9pm Pie and chips idea - a curry would be awesome as my family are big curry eaters - might have to do some negoitating with my venue re: getting their buffet but external food later on.

Thanks

WSS but without canapes - just drinkies before dinner at 5pm. My co-ordinator told me to not leave dinner much later than 5, as most people would have had lunch about 1 to make sure they get to the venue for 2.30, so would start getting hungry. If your having canapes maybe it isn't as big a deal and 7pm may not be so bad.

It might be that we need a welcome drink / capane session - it's just so not me and the other half, we want informal, relaxed and fun..

My only idea is afternoon tea - it will be summer so perhaps scones / cream / strawberries on arrival whilst waiting for me and OH?

That sounds nice - everyone loves tea and scones!!

We're making our dinner a little less formal by playing party games (pass the parcel etc.) in between servings. Get everyone talking as well ?

The party games does sound fun - although I don't want too much mingling going at my wedding.! At a recent wedding I went to the grooms sister got with the best man and 3 of the guests went home with people they didn't arrive with!

Here's ours:

3pm - Ceremony

3.30pm - Photos and drinks reception

5.00pm - Sit down meal

7.00pm - speeches

7.30pm - cake cutting and tea

8.00pm - evening guests arrive, band starts up. Small buffet served.

I got married at 4.00pm. This was our timetable:

4.00pm - Cremony
4.30pm - Drinks reception & photos
5.30pm - Captain Bob's talk / guests called for dinner
6.00pm - Dinner
8.00pm - Disco

This is what happened...

4.15pm - Ceremony
4.45pm (ish) - Drinks & Photos
6.30pm (ish) - Dinner
9.15pm - Disco!

Never under-estimate how much the time slips away from you. We ran out of time for photos - there are lots we didn't get a change to do.

Luckily we didn't have extra evening guests so the dinner over-running didn't spoil anything.

Mine is

Ceremony at 2pm

Drinks reception, canapes and photos 2.45-4.00

Dinner - 4pm - 6pm

Evening disco guests start to arrive - 7pm

Buffet - 8.30

Finish - 12pm

The pie and peas evening nibbles all started with the Groom asking for the inclusion of pork pie in the buffet which then led to my daughter deciding she would like a pork pie wedding cake as well as a wedding, wedding cake if you follow - so Grandma decided she would buy them the pork pie wedding cake as a gift. The venue were quite happy to cut the pork pie cake up and serve it with mushy peas at 9pm so it's all worked out honky dory as they say!

Thanks - I think I have made the right decision.

As my service starts later in the afternoon, and I have a 20min journey between the church and the reception I think another 2.5hours of formality would be too much for my OH. We have about 120 guests and I would like to be able to mingle with each one on the night.

Our timetable is:

2.30-3.00pm- Ceremony

3.00pm-5.00pm- Welcome drinks and photos

5.00-7.00pm- Wedding Breakfast

7.00-12am- Evening guests and disco

Here is our rough one:

Saturday 23rd October 2010

• 3:00pm - Civil Ceremony & photos
• 4:45pm - Bride And Groom Big Entrance
• 5:00pm - Speeches
• 5:30pm - Hot Buffet Time
• 7:30pm - Anyone fancy a bit of S&M ??!!!!!
• 8:00pm - The not to be missed First Dance
• 8:01pm - Everone Laugh at Hubbs Dancing
• 8:02pm - Party till you drop!

Where were these weddings when I was still single? lol

Hiya sounds about fine to me! Heres our rough plan

2.30 ceremony

3.15 pictures at the church

4.00 arrive at venue for welcome drinks more pictures be taken

5.15 sit down meal

8.00 evening guest arrive.

I was really panicking about the wedding timings, but our planner said that its better to have things roll in to each other than lots of waiting around! However, im yet to comment!!!

P xx

Am getting married at 4

4.00 - 5.00 married

5.00 - 6.00 photos (but hopefully wont take an hour as am not really having many formal ones.

6.00- 6.30 travelling to venue

6.30 - 7.00 speeches

7.00 - 7.30 evening guests meant to arrive

8.00 -8.30 Buffett

lets hope it all goes ok if not it'll give people something to talk about lol

xx

This is what I think will happen

3pm ceremony

4pm should be in venue by now

guests can walk around (its a victorian living museum)

we have our photos taken

5pm everyone meets for group photo outside pavillion

5.20ish speeches etc

5.30/6 Funfair starts for 1 1/2 hours

6.30ish BBQ and salad buffet

7.00/7.30ish First dance and disco

all finish at 23.00

Our wedding is at 2, any idea on timings? Its a church. Pls help!!! We are having a buffet

Here is our rough timetable:

1.30 - 2.30: Civil Ceremony

2.30 - 4.00: Reception Drinks and Canapes

4.00 - 4.15: Line Up

4.15 - 6.30: Wedding Breakfast (5 courses)

6.30 - 7.00 Speeches

7.00 - 7.15 Toast

7.20 - 7.40 Cake Cutting

8.00 - Evening Guests arrive

8.30 - First Dance

9.00 - Buffet

12.00 - Reception Finishes, Drinks In The Bar

Not to throw a spanner in the works but OH's cousin got married on Thursday at a 3pm ceremony, we were evening guests and arrived at 7:45 - the speeches were still being done, luckily it was a nice day as we were stood on the terrace untill 8:45 and the first dance wasn't till 9. Don't underestimate the time it takes to reorganise a room - our co ordinator told us to allow an hour! Also the hot buffet was being set up as they did the first dance - and most of the food went to waste (day guests just having eaten and evening guests having eaten before arriving)

Sorry if that sounded negative

A

That sounds about right and was my concern about having 2 meal servings... We decided to have a buffet only so we don't have to do any room re-organisation and we also decided there will only be one "type" of guest - all day, although we are having a Friday wedding so I expect that we won't have a huge uptake on the church as people will be working. After the church service we then will head straight to the reception which will be set up ready for buffet - and my plan is the room will stay in the same set up for the rest of the night? Do you think thats an unreasonable assumption - I have no idea! I'm the first one of my friendship circle to get married so I am on a steep learning curve - I should have waited - haha!