**warning- a lot of this is just me "thinking out loud" so if seems like rambling..sorry!**
As of right now, our ceremony is going to be at a church about 15 minutes from our reception location. We had gone to this church a couple of times before we got engaged so we decided to have our ceremony there.
Well.....I was never too keen on the look of the church (it has purple carpeting and the cross is shaped like a T....not a traditional cross). I know these are small things which is why I had a "it is what it is" attitude toward the look of the church. Lately though the "ugliness" of the church has been bothering me. I know what the location looks like isn't the important part of the ceremony...it's the ceremony itself but it still bothers me.
Also, since 95% of our guests are from out of town (at least 3 hours away, so will need to stay in hotel)..it will be much easier for the ceremony to be at our reception venue (which we love).
It is too late to change locations??
We want to ask the pastor if he does wedding ceremonies outside of the church (I know some won't) before we make and decisions.
If we do decide to keep at it the church, I will probably get an aisle runner to break up the look of the purple carpet a little bit.
The two options we have for a ceremony at our reception location are:
- upstairs from the reception location in a room that overlooks the river (only for 150 guests or less so this may not be an option depending on the amount of RSVPs)
- on the dance floor (which is elevated a few steps from the tables) with guests watching from their tables. I have never heard of this before and am not sure how I feel about it though. Anyone ever been to a wedding that was like that?
thanks for listening