Wedding without evening do?!

Hello and welcome!

What time is your ceremony and how far do your families have to travel?

If your family don't have to travel too far, then having no evening do should be fine. My experiences of Sunday weddings is that people will want to attend to help you celebrate, but if possible they would rather not take Monday off as holiday so leaving early would suit a lot of them.

Ours! In 4 days time!

Ceremony at 12 followed by lunch at a fish and chip shop over the road. We wrote on the invitations "the celebrations will finish around 4pm, when we shall go on our honeymoon!"... although we've since decided to head to a pub for a bit first (have texted all guests to let them know).

Everyone has responded really positively to this, especially as all guests have a fair way to travel, and most have kids.

I suppose mine was similar to an American wedding - we had a late ceremony, drinks and then dinner and home.

Thanks. We are still in the early stages of trying to decide what we want. Our families and friends would only have around a hour of travel- so not too bad! I thought people wouldn't be able to come if they had to take Monday off work.

We just really want it on a Sunday as its our anniversary. Plus I've been to a few weddings where it just drags waiting around and then having to stay till the end of the night bit! We're not massive drinkers etc and would rather be on the way to the airport hehe

Nimsay- sounds great, that's nice to hear you have had positive feedback. Not long to go now, All the best!

This sounds like a great wedding, especially for people with Kids.

We didn't have an evening do. We went home in the evening. I honestly never even thought of having an evening do!

It was quite common years ago for couples to depart for the honeymoon in the evening.

Thinking about this, you could start the wedding at 12ish. Do ceremony, photos, maybe a drinks reception and a nice meal. Potentially be finished come 7pm.

Sounds like a lovely idea :-)

I went to a wedding like this and it was lovely! Daytime ceremony and a nice buffet lunch afterwards while everyone mingled and chatted, then people either went home or stayed around and continued to catch up in one of the local pubs.

Is it the evening dancing that you don't want, or the 2nd meal? I got married in Aus, where there isn't this separateday/evening guests. All guests come to the reception, then usually a sit down meal, then dancing/music. No 2nd meal, buffet etc. We got married about 2-3pm, meal about 5pm. No reason you need to provide a 2nd meal, just let guests know.

This sounds awesome.

We didn't have a separate "day" and "evening". Our meal was dinner which went on for a few hours with fireworks in the middle. Lots of chatting and catching up, good wine and drink. No disco lights or DJ. It ended at 11pm, but I could have easily have left at 9:30ish to go to bed.

A more compressed day would be good.