We have our ceremony and reception venue booked for next year. The ceremony is booked for 1pm. We recently attended a weeding ourselves with a ceremony at the same time, and it reminded us that there is an awful lot of waiting around, and frankly for about 3 hours in the middle we were bored. It was a long tiring day and we ended up spending quite a lot of money on drinks at the bar in the afternoon. We have started talking about either moving our ceremony later in the day (which actually I think may be tricky) or actually getting married on our own with just my parents as witnesses a few days before hand, then holding our reception with a celebrant ceremony at our reception venue from around 4pm/5pm. We figure we could then dispense with much of the waiting around, then go straight on to our food (bbq) and party. We think this would also save us a fair amount of money as we will make the bbq adequate enough that we hopefully wouldn't need to provide an evening buffet in addition. What do you all think, would guests find this odd/insulting? Honest opinions appreciated, thanks!