Choosing The Time Of Day For Your Wedding
Each couple has their own preferred time to have their wedding. This may be at dawn with its wonderful soft la lumière anglais and cool morning air, morning with brighter but still great lighting, afternoon with even brighter lighting, dusk with toned down lighting or night with artificial lighting or moonlight. Whatever the choice, each couple needs to take into account a few pointers on the time of day of the wedding.
Dawn weddings though quite romantic means being up by 4 am and having hair and makeup done and all dressed up before dawn. It is rare that the bride would have been able to get to bed early either the previous night. Not many guests will appreciate it and it also means a mini-breakfast before the wedding and a plentiful breakfast afterwards. However, from a cost point of view, breakfast is always a cheaper meal than a full blown dinner and alcohol need not be served.
Morning weddings which are usually around ten thirty am, will require the bride and guests to be up early to have their hair and makeup all done and be dressed early. The main meal in this case can be a good brunch but alcohol can become a problem this early if you are considering serving it. If lunch is planned, the guests will need an additional snack after the wedding ceremony as it will be too long a wait for lunch, which will increase costs.
A mid day ceremony is a good compromise for a daytime wedding. Lunch can be the main meal and the bride can begin getting ready later than a morning wedding. Guests will usually come hungry as no one will have a full breakfast before the wedding and the lunch must be plentiful.
Both morning and noon weddings can be handled with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, but again there has to be plenty of food. It can, however be much cheaper in the long run than an evening wedding. All daytime weddings tend to be less formal than evening weddings where the tendency is more towards the elegant and formal.
Evening weddings generally have the wedding ceremony between 4 and 5 p.m. This seems the general favourite time for weddings. A good cocktail is served along with a good dinner and dancing afterwards. People tend to stay and interact longer when it’s an evening wedding. This however, will naturally be the most expensive option.
Night weddings are pretty whether with artificial lights or with just the moonlight. It may, however prove too late and tiresome for the bride especially to be up so late. Generally the time chosen by most couples is an evening wedding but it is up to the couple to decide what time will suit them best.
