I shall have to respectfully disagree
With point 4. It depends what people are expecting. Went to a wedding in Germany this summer, where it's apparently it's de rigeur to have the ceremony around lunchtime, do all the pictures, let everyone go away for a little lie down (probably with less sleeping in the case of the bride and groom) and bring them back at about 6 in the evening, to keep going until the same sort of time the following morning.

In this particular case, many pickled singer types + steinway + free bar til 6am = fun times.
(Concrete Cow, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 17:37, Reply)