How long was your church service?

After photographing 100s of weddings I would say that you can count on a C of E service being 40 mins.

But that's not just it, don't forget that everyone then has to come out of the church - congratulate you and even if you think you are leaving straight away you wont be in the car before an hour and that is with minimum amount of photos there.

And if you haven got someone taking control (like the photographer ) and moving things along you could end up at the church for longer than you think

So allow at least 1 hour from you arriving to getting back in the car, so long as you keep things moving on.

Depends on the religion and ceremony. Roman Catholic ceremonies can go on for an hour.

I'd allow 40min for a C of E service, that's if you have the usual 3 hymns and a couple of readings. The vicar usually does a "sermon" so it depends on the length of that too.

Ok, thanks. Ours in a Baptist Church, no other churches will marry us. I gave an hiur and a half including greeting after and very few photos etc so an hour is good

Thanks!

We're having a catholic ceremony and were given two options, a non Eucharistic service, which we opted for. Which is 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for the signing of the register or a Eucharistic service which would be an hour plus the register signing.