terribly rude part 2....

emily.ayala

My fiance just explained to me that the reason the area is too small for 100 people to sit comfortably is because the venue coordinator said they would basically split the room in half and have both sides set up ahead of time. One half set up for the ceremony and one half for the reception. I did not realize this is how they were going to do it.

By the way, the ceremony and reception would be on the rooftop of a hotel. That being said, I want to ask the coordinator if they will allow me to have a 100 person seating ceremony, have everyone move downstairs while they flip the room and then go back up.

There is a bar downstairs the guests could get drinks at (we would still pay for drinks, of course) As well as a ballroom, that I was thinking of asking if we could move guests to for the flip over.

So, once again, would it be rude to have guests go downstairs while the rooftop was flipped over? Should I just give up on this place?

tenofcups4me

Most weddings I attend are like that -- ceremony in one room, go somewhere else for cocktail hour while the room is flipped, and then back to the original room. Half the time people don't even realize they've gone back into the same room, though I guess they'd recognize a rooftop :-)  Anyway, that's pretty normal procedure in my experience and I can't think why the hotel shouldn't be able to do that.

Kristin789

>>Could they set it up where the tables formed a center aisle and the guests just sat at the tables during the ceremony?

We did this and it was great.  We had a lot of older guests, and it was very very nice for them to just stay PUT instead of going downstairs and then coming back up.

kbmeow

My ceramony and reception are in the same room.  They are going upstairs for cocktail hour while they flip the room

JanoBean75

I went to a wedding where the tables and chairs were set up with an aisle in the center. At first I thought it was weird that I was sitting there with a place setting in front of me watching a wedding, but it turned out fine. After the ceremony the bride and groom and BP went off for pictures and we all had hors d'oeuvres and drinks. It was great!