The city's church-then-reception pattern is the thing that shapes our timeline here. Where the ceremony and the party are in different buildings, a single wall cannot be in both unless there is a genuine gap between them, and a photographed exit at one venue plus a bare corner at the other is not a trade worth making. We will usually recommend the wall lives where the reception photographs happen, and say so plainly.
Ironbound reception rooms reward a smaller, denser wall over a wide one. The rooms are close and warm and full of people, and an 8ft wall in a room like that reads as generous rather than sparse. Where a venue has a low ceiling we will drop the frame height rather than let the top row of florals brush a light fitting.