Acceptable journey distance from Church to Wedding Reception?

Hi Lauren first congratulations on your engagement?. I think 35 minutes is acceptable, I cant remember a time this year where it has been under 35 minutes travel from church to venue so the only thing you have to think about is how your guests are going to get to the venue from the church, can they make their own way by car or will they they transport provided.

Hi Bruce

Thank you very much!

That is great, thank you

Our wedding ceremony is in the sticks so car transportation will be required, there is overnight parking at the venue along with hotels nearby so shouldn't be a problem!

Thank you again ?

I would personally be fine with that travel time. Ours is 20-30mins depending on traffic. We have only provided transport there of a vintage bus. We will provide taxi numbers for the return guests to use and provide details of hotels also. Guests are usually good at sharing taxis etc for their way home. That's what we have done when attending weddings or events

I think that time is fine, so long as you provide transport between.

I recently went to my cousins wedding, and between their ceremony venue and reception venue it was about 40-45 mins (by car it was only 20 mins, but they had a vintage bus, which had to take a longer route due to low bridges!)

I think because we were all on the bus together it was fine as everybody was able to chat away!

Congratulations! I think 35 minutes is fine...I wouldn't expect transport to be laid on either, though perhaps if you knew you had guests who didn't drive you could chat to guests that did and organise some car shares? Or put people in touch to share a minibus taxi? We travelled about 40-45 minutes I think at my brothers wedding, and about 25 mins at another wedding we went to a couple years ago, it wasn't an issue at all, people will have lots of notice where your venues are so can arrange travel plans. That said I am glad, and lucky, that ours is a two minute walk away!

Congratulations! I'm a wedding photographer and see 30 min journeys between venues regularly. I've done a few that have been 45 min. I think if it's 35 min there's nothing to worry about. The usual thing is to provide transport though.

It may be that you start transport at the reception venue, with the guests meeting there to park and coach/classic bus departing a hour before the ceremony.

Congratulations!

I'm surrently working through the same issue and have a couple of options 25-30 mins away. Think that's prefectly reasonable as we're in a fairly rural area. Trying to decide on how to get everyone around though, as half my family don't drive

I think half an hour is the max time i'd ask guests to travel from church to reception. Keep in mind if some of your guests are already travelling from far to get to the church x

Hi, first of all congratulations. Channels in beautiful it was one of the first venues we looked at. We have 40 min travel between church and reception, it is my thinking most people will be in cars and leave them at reception venue (hotel) those who arent driving I have told I will help them arrange a lift ( on invitation)