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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you make the ceremony later and then have cocktail hour for the guests while you're doing the photos?[/quote]

Typically a Catholic wedding has to be in the early afternoon, because the church will have regular services later in the day. [/quote]

How many 1 hour services does a typical church have on a saturday night? More than one?[/quote]

Usually one, but a lot of parishes will not hold weddings after Saturday Vigil services. Vigil masses, and all masses held thereafter, satisfy Sunday obligations. It's kind of like how Jewish religions observe from nightfall to nightfall instead of by contemporary calendar days. [/quote]

This. Our parish also offered two times for weddings on Saturdays (morning or afternoon).  Either way, you're done by 3:30 or 4 at latest (so they can prep for 5pm or 5:30pm mass) and nearly inevitably have a break before starting cocktail hour.  We weren't even allowed in our venue (a museum) until like 2 hours after our ceremony ended so it was either give up my dream venue (unlikely!) or have guests deal with a gap.  FWIW, I don't think we lost anyone.  Local people went home between (some also changed since it was a day wedding but then evening/black tie reception), others went back to the hotel or walked around DC (or hit up a bar or two), but I can't think of anyone we "lost" between the ceremony and reception.  They might not have loved it, but it was the only option. It also gave us tons of time for pictures without missing cocktail hour, which I loved.  [/quote]

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