Hi Knottie Brides,
We booked South Ferry Church for our ceremony next year and I am simply in love with how beautiful it is! Still have a few questions regarding SFC and would love to hear any previous brides/local brides thoughts on this (we are planning from California).
1) Rehearsal
Did you have one the night before and did it cost extra? If so, how much? I feel like we paid $500 to rent the church on our wedding day and I would be happy to allow any bride to use it following our ceremony for her rehearsal....perhaps that's the way it works? Though logic tells me if there is a buck to be made they will want to make it...
2) Parking
We have been told it's street parking...how was your experience with this? We are looking into using a school bus to shuttle guests later in the day to/from the reception and had thought about using it the whole day to shuttle guests to/from SFC too, but it seems sort of silly/expensive if it wasn't a big deal for guests to park down the street....
3)Capacity
We know not every guest invited will make it to the ceremony. SFC website says 150 is the capacity, which is where we set our max guest list at. Now, however, we are thinking of expanding to 160. And yes, even though some of those may not come, there is an extensive "B" list, so we'll still probably be pretty close to it. Can it hold the extra 10? At least 20 or more will be kids...thoughts?
4) Music
We were planning to hire a harpist to play some pre-ceremony music but I have since thought about some of my favorite songs that we might want to have playing instead; has anyone used an iPod/speaker for their music? Were there outlets/space for this in the back or front? What other music options have people used?
Thanks everyone!