Questions!!!!!!

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• heroeswearbrown member

  

  November 2012 edited November 2012

  1. September I would imagine would be okay. Just make sure you're aware of any special events happening in your area at the time. That may affect various vendors or travel.
  
  2. I dislike weekday weddings especially if you want an open bar. I can't imagine going to a wedding to have a huge party and then having to get up the next day for work. That being said, Friday would be better so long as you have it late enough in the evening that people can get there afterwork. It's really up to you though. I know someone who got married at 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon and it apparently worked well for them. Just be mindful of how many people you expect to be there, and who the really important people are. We planned a Saturday wedding because it was the easiest for us and also because we only had one VIP who had an issue with this, but we planned it far enough in advance that she could ask for the time off.
  
  3. It really depends on what kind of wedding you're going to have. My ceremony will be a full catholic mass and therefore an hour long, and the reception will be 3 hours. If you have to do all the decorating within the time frame that you're paying for the space, I would enlist a lot of extra help or keep decorations to a minimum. But the amount of time you'll need will really depend on how many people you want to invite and how much you want to do. more people = more tables = more decorations = more clean up.
  
  4. the time of the wedding is really up to you. early evening usually is pretty nice, but depending on when you're planning the reception to be will be will dictate the kind of food you should serve. if your reception will start anywhere between 4:00 and 6:00 I would advise a full meal, which can drive the price up.
  
  Most of your questions can be answered by first setting a budget, and then a guest list. Without either of those two things, you could wind up with some major headaches trying to back track and fix issues.

  

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• karahughes89

  

  November 2012

  Thank you for ur post.... I guess i need to start working on a guest list. knowing my luck it will be about 100 people lol. It is also looking at that noon to midnight on a friday is more better for us. I need to ask the venue if they clean up not really wanting to clean after having an open bar, due to it will probably be my family that cleans and decorates......

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• APDSS22 member

  

  November 2012

  Might be a bit warm for outside, but might not.  You know Oklahoma weather. 
  
  Have you looked into Harwelden Mansion?  We had a friend get married there this last summer and it was nice.  I don't know how many they invited, but there were a lot of rooms for people to spread out in so we were all able to be inside. 
  
  If you have a lot of people local it would be less of an issue whether it was in the middle of the week or the weekend.  (But if you have lots of people travelling, they might not have the time to take off and so you might get refusals.)
  
  If you're having an open bar you can have it later on in the evening or night (when people like to drink) or you could have it in the middle of the afternoon, when most people would only have 1 or 2 drinks.  Timing really depends on whether you want to serve dinner or just some snack food for the timing thing.  If you want to only have snacks, you shouldn't have your reception when people normally eat dinner, that sort of thing.

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• karahughes89

  

  December 2012

  Thanks. Those are some good points.

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