Venue update and Questions!

becca2434

So a week or so ago I posted on here about how I had no where to get married anymore! Well I have now found the perfect venue it is at a Marriott hotel and they have room for our cermoney and reception. They are pretty affordable as well. So excited as of today I only have exactly 3 months!

So right now I am writing up a list of things left to do. All we have done is our venue, Dj, photobooth, phtographer, dress & acessories, alterations appointment set, honeymoon booked to the Canary Islands,  and our offciant. Whew a lot left lets hope I can get this done!

So my question is how do I dress up my cermoney space, and what do I need for our cermoney? All we really have in the room is chairs and I want to find a way to make it special. Could any of you ladies share pictures of how your cermoney space looked? Any advice is greatly apperciated.

aligross

Are you going to have a DOC or someone there to help move/switch everything? If so, I think the most beautiful weddings I've been to lately have been ones where they line the aisle with rose petals and then cylnder candles at the ends of every other row on the floor. Then use the candles as centerpieces on some of your tables...  Are you doing a unity candle/sand ceremony or anything of that sort? You could always find a nice table/pedestal do set that on.

Are your ceremony & reception in the same room as each other? 

ETA: finish my thought... oops! (that's what happens when you're TK at work!)

tpender13

We too got married and had our reception at a hotel. And we were only engaged for five months, but didn't have a venue until two months in, so we planned almost everything in the last three months. You'll be fine!

All we had for ceremony decorations was a pre-made aisle runner from Michael's, some pretty and cheap lanterns from Ikea lining the aisles, then some bigger lanterns with fake flowers and a pillar candle inside for the "altar" -- the hotel set up a kind of low stage at the front of the room, and they had these kind of neat cocktail tables with slipcovers over them. We put one on either side of where we were standing and put the big lanterns on them. It wasn't anything crazy, but neither of us were picky about them either.

I can try to see if I have pics at home.

I Want Cake

We used a couple of tall floral arrangements to mark the altar space.  I don't have pictures available to post, but we liked how it worked out because they were easily movable and resuable at the reception.  We were thinking of renting an arbor to have decorated, but it would have been too much of a PITA and wouldn't have worked with our last-minute configuration change at the ceremony.  The arrangements ended up costing us maybe $140 together from Simply Stated Elegance.