Ceremony Time | Find the Right Wedding Ceremony Start Time
Ceremony Time Wedding timing tool
Ceremony Time wedding timing product shown on desktop, tablet and mobile
Your ceremony-time recommendation, wherever you need it. Phone · tablet · desktop
Personalized ceremony-time recommendation

Find the right ceremony start time for your wedding.

Enter your wedding date and location. Ceremony Time works backwards from your local sunset to recommend a ceremony start time, show your portrait-light window and explain why the timing works.

✓ Get your recommendation in about a minute
✓ Informed by experience from more than 500 real weddings
✓ Personalized to your exact wedding date and location
Find My Ceremony Time — $12 →
$12 USD · One-time purchase · Instant digital access
17 Years Experience photographing and observing real wedding days.
500+ Weddings Real-world experience of how wedding-day timing actually works.
Worldwide Locations Local sunset and timezone calculations wherever you're getting married.
What you get

More than just a sunset time.

1
Your recommended ceremony start time

A practical starting time based on your wedding date, location and available evening light.

2
Your local sunset

Calculated for the actual location and date of your wedding.

3
Your portrait-light window

See where your strongest portrait light falls in relation to the ceremony.

4
Why the timing works

Understand how the timing affects congratulations, family photos, guest time and couple portraits.

Why it matters

Your ceremony time shapes the rest of the day.

Start too late and family photographs, guest time or your best portrait light can disappear.

Start unnecessarily early and you can create long gaps that make the day feel disjointed.

Ceremony Time gives you a sensible starting point before the wedding timeline gets locked in.

Your Ceremony Time

Enter your wedding date and location.

That's all I need to prepare your personalized recommendation.

Search any city in the world, then choose the correct result.

Your recommendation is ready.

Your ceremony time, sunset and portrait-light window have been calculated.

Your recommendation works backwards from the local sunset using wedding-day timing informed by 17 years and more than 500 weddings.
Secure one-time purchase · No subscription
Your $12 purchase includes Recommended ceremony start time Local sunset for your exact wedding date and location Suggested portrait-light window Explanation of why the timing works
Your Ceremony Time
16:30

Sunset 19:30
Portrait window 18:40
Location Cape Town
Next step

You’ve found your Ceremony Time. Now build the rest of the day around it.

Wedding Day Flow takes your ceremony time and helps you build the complete wedding day around it — prep, travel, photography coverage, family photographs, guest time, portraits, reception, speeches, dinner, first dance and your own custom moments.

Upgrade to Wedding Day Flow — $57 More →
Your $12 Ceremony Time purchase counts toward the full $69 Wedding Day Flow.

Built from real wedding-day experience.

Ceremony Time was created by wedding photographer Kobus Tollig after 17 years and more than 500 weddings. It does not decide your wedding day for you. It gives you a practical recommendation so you can make a better-informed timing decision.