My fiance and I got engaged May 7th, 2013 and have no plans to wait past September to get married. I am well aware September is rapidly becoming the most popular wedding month. It also happens to be my favorite month of the year. We wanted to get married September 7th because it would be four months to the day since our engagement as well as my grandparents wedding anniversary. It is a small ceremony and reception (38 people including him and I) and we are on a $5,000 budget, which so far has not been a problem. We are leaving wiggle room by having either a hors duerves and cake reception if the venue takes a huge chunk or if it does not then we will have a traditional dinner reception. The problem: finding a venue on a Saturday in September. It's not just the Saturday it's the price and SIZE! Everything is huge. We finally found a place that is absolutely perfect BUT every Saturday in Septmeber is booked. Sundays are available still. It literally breaks my heart to move the date. Also, the reception site will allow us to have the ceremony on the back veranda, but that is where the cocktail hour was going to be so we could have our pictures taken AFTER getting married in the church. If we change the ceremony to Sunday, will I be able to find a church to marry us? If I have the ceremony at the recption site on the veranda, how do I politely say okay now take your chairs and move them back into the dining area?
I just cannot picture what I am supposed to do with my guests while we are switching over the ceremony site to the cocktail site.