Best wedding Time of Day

If you read the real weddings section on here, the only people ever say they would want to change about their day is that they'd have it last longer.

Are you having photos? I only ask this because usually you'd do formals between the day and evening reception, so I don't know if that affects the timings/fills some time gaps. Notably you'd want an hour somewhere in there, preferably when there's some daylight to begin with (so 4pm might be a bit dark depending on what month you're getting married.

With the times being either 11am or 4pm I would choose 4pm. This is purely because I find that things run more smoothly later in the day rather than late morning.

What time of year are you getting married?

If it was me I'd go for 4pm. 11am just seems too early. The one thing about weddings that I don't enjoy is all the hanging round waiting for the next part of the day to begin (of course that's just me). I think you could still have a sit down meal, and then not bother with an evening buffet. If you're worried about photos, you could always do them before the ceremony. I know some couples do choose to do this when they have a later ceremony.

We are getting married at 11am. We have guest traveling from a far but don't see this as an issue as it'll be lovely to spend the night before with them too. Our schedule goes like this

11am - wedding

12noon - out of church and photos etc

12.45 - people arrive at reception (its a 20min drive away from the church and I know people will be dropping cars off at home and getting taxis etc). We're off for photos elsewhere so we'll arrive at the reception at 13.15

13.15 - we have garden games and photos

14.30 - sit down for meal

16.30 - speeches

17.30 - out of room for change over, more garden games etc and mingling

19.00 - back in room

20.00 - cake cutting, first dance, band kick off, p-a-r-t-y!!

In terms of waiting around time an 1 1/2hr at 2 intervals I don't think is a lot. People will have things to do, we have photos to be taken, a VOG doing guest messages, a balloon release, a good old game of twister.

I think it depends on what you have planned for the of the day. Before we even consider what the schedule would be, we had already decided on 11am because it just felt right for us.

If you would like a Magician to entertain your guests during your change over or any other time then let me know.

We have got 11.30am booked for ours next year. We did want about 12/1 oclock but it was either 11.30 or 4pm so we chose the earlier! I intend to have my dress on for as long as possible.

We have chosen the longer ceremony though to fill up some time though haha.

You could always ask the registrar to make a note on that day that if any later slots come available to move your time. Thats what weve done.

Nat x

If it's in summer months then either time is ok in terms of light but 4pm would likely be better. If it's in winter then 11am would be better if pictures are important, at least imo

If it's in the winter then 4pm is going to be pretty dark. I don't know if your getting a pro tog or not, but if it is in winter then I wouldn't count on guests being able to provide useable pictures. Just a heads up, most budget togs will likely struggle if they are not using gear suited for lowlight photography.