Wedding Time Line

Are you doing photos in between the ceremony and reception?

If you have already booked a photographer, I would see what kind of timeline they recommend. Especially if you plan on having photos taken somewhere else. We spoke with ours & they gave us their thoughts.

The timeline your doing is what we did too based on the time frame and followed through cocktail hour right after the pictures.

We are having almost 3 hours between the ceremony and reception, where we will take pictures. The guests will most likely leave the venue and come back I guess later.

We are also having a 3:00 ceremony... Expecting it to be done before 3:30. We are doing our photos before the ceremony so our cocktail hour will start at 4:00 and go till dinner at about 5:30 or 6:00.

We are thinking of following a similar timeline as you where there is over an hour gap between the ceremony and reception. What people have recommended to me it to provide some games for people to play while they wait for the reception that way if they want to stay at the venue they have something to do, but they can also go back to their hotel.
We are having a giant Jenga table and giant tic tac toe for our guests along with some other small games 😊

We are also jopeiito have the ceremony at 3.
3:00-Ceremony
4:00-Cocktail hour (while we do photos)
5:00/5:30- Reception starts

That's what we are thinking, but we have plenty of time to go over it.

I wouldn't suggest too long between the ceremony and reception especially if there are out of town guests. I personally don't want to wait around after the ceremony. So a 1 hour cocktail hour is what we are aiming for.