Move your own chair?

kzsnyder

Fi and I are getting marred outside, with an outside reception (weather pending).  is it rude to ask guests to move their chairs from the ceremony area, to their reception tables? Im sayig YES.. all Fi and his mom can see is the bill for renting the extra chairs. 

pumpkinpumpkin

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[QUOTE]It may not be cheap to not hire two sets of chairs, but <strong>it's definately cheap to not pay the venues staff to do the labor part</strong> of your wedding for you and have your guests do it instead.  Maybe it's not so much actually being cheap, so much as it puts off the appearance of being cheap.  Like a "we didnt want to pay for this, so why dont you guys do it instead?"  kind of thing. 
Posted by eastunder1[/QUOTE]

Unless your venue doesn't have a staff (ie - outdoor wedding at home, park, wherever).

MrsHaH101010

I don't think you should ask all of your guests to move their own chairs especially your older guests or even women in heels.  I would ask the male members of your wedding party to help move them.

Phoeber

I had a casual backyard wedding and we had my brothers and the groomsmen do it. 

tenofcups4me

I think it's rude to ask guests to move their own chairs. And I think it's rude to ask the wedding party to do it. DH and I were both in a wedding for a good friend who asked the wedding party to set up chairs ahead of time for the ceremony -- DH was really annoyed that he was wearing a tux and getting all sweaty to move someone's chairs because they were too cheap to hire someone for $20 or whatever to move chairs. I refused to do it -- I was in a gown, no way was I carrying chairs around.

cac847

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Move your own chair? : Unless your venue doesn't have a staff (ie - outdoor wedding at home, park, wherever).
Posted by pumpkinpumpkin[/QUOTE]

Or the staff is busy doing other things. I did banquet waitressing in college, and we would be too busy getting things ready in the kitchen to be able to move chairs, and the set-up guys left before the event started and came back the next day to break everything down for the cleaning people to clean.

squirrly

I'd just pay somebody $20 to move them for you. 

stefani103

I vote for whoever said to have a few people do it. In my family, we'd all help. I'm actually having issues keeping our mothers from trying to do too much on the day-of. I'm sure you have some strapping young men that can help. If others want to chip in, all the power to them.