Tuesday Fall Wedding

Ahh, then that works.

But yeah, personally I would either change the timing around a bit if you can so that people don't have to choose between taking time off work vs arriving late due to rush hour traffic. And just think of some kind of food situation for the DJ/karaoke portion of the evening.

11pm is not too late for adults unless they're seniors or they have kids. Seniors and those with children will likely end up leaving much earlier.

Where in Ontario are you having your wedding? Because if it's anywhere in the GTHA, if they're not there by 5:30pm, chances are they won't arrive til closer to 6:30pm due to rush hour traffic. And a lot of people may end up pushing it if you tell them arriving late is fine. And though they're close friends and family, you can't expect people to take off work for a local wedding especially if your expectations are that it's okay to arrive late. Some may do it but you can't expect it. In this economy with high costs and expensive rent/mortgages, every dollar earned helps.

Does your venue allow you to self cater? A lot of venues only allow licensed food handlers for legal and insurance purposes. Is their premise set up to handle food service? No matter what time you serve food, you'll need proper refrigeration for salads, condiments and sandwich toppings. You'll also need properly heated serving pot for soup. It can't sit out in room temperature for an hour and a half during dinner service plus however much time it's there while you get ready.

What's happening during karaoke hour? Is any food being served? If you're hoping to end at 11pm, that's a long time of not having any food and people may end up leaving early. Any reason you can't have the sandwich/soup/salad buffet out while karaoke is taking place? This vibe would feel like the typical pub karaoke where people eat and drink in-between taking turns singing.

For a small wedding like that (I am also having a 40 person wedding on a week day) and since they are your close friends and family (I am assuming because mine is like this) would they not take a day or 2 off?

So it does not really matter what time it starts or when it ends!

Even though mine is on a Friday, it is in Banff so people would have to take all of Friday off to either drive up the same day or go the night before. The entirety of the guest list have to take off work to travel to our wedding.

If I was your guest, I would be taking off the Tuesday the wedding happens so I can sleep in, relax and spend the afternoon getting ready and I would minimum take off the first half of the next day.

I'm also concerned about starting to early and/or ending too late and then 1/2 my guests not showing up or only staying a short time because it's a Tuesday (which will be a big deal because we only have a 40 person guest list). How early is to early to start? Is 11pm to late?

We were hoping to have dinner 1st just because we are catering the event ourselves (with help from my 4 teenaged children & my 2 cousins) and we didn't want everything sitting out too long or having a weird pause while we ran everything out in our wedding attire.

We're getting our wedding party photos the day before in the afternoon at a different location, and getting our family photos (parents, siblings & grandparents) done during the reception in our photobooth.

Hi!

I think if you want to have a certain time for the ceremony - which starts after dinner - maybe have a bit of a buffer just in case.

Although we all have timelines - sometimes they do not go according to plan.

I went to a wedding this summer where the ceremony was supposed to start at 2:30pm and we got there at 2:10 pm and the ceremony did not start till 4:00 pm due to some problems - a big one was people who were late. Which was the majority of the guests.

Not saying this could happen to you, but there can be some delays that you would not even imagine happening.

Maybe have it so people can start coming around 4:30pm everyone is there and get dinner going around 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm.