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XP: Advice on Ceremony/Reception - Need some ideas/help!

Alright Ladies, 

I am in a dilema. We have not yet booked our Ceremony Site for our June wedding. Mainly because the site I originally wanted to have it (A park) happens to be right next to a huge summer arts festival that is going on in my city on my wedding day. There is another site a few blocks away that is similar, it would be a park. We can't book it until the end of this month for the new year but I am debating if I just want to throw the ceremony location out completely.

What do you think of just having the ceremony at the reception site? Have you seen it done? Doing this would cut the costs of renting music, chairs, accessories etc. Also I am worried about the weather because our weather around that time can be very unpredictable. Also we only get the park for 2 hours, so we would have to set everything up and have it tore down in that time frame. And I haven't talked to any local rental companies but it seems weird to tell them "Drop off at 3pm, pick up at 5pm. Thanks!" Would it be weird to have our ceremony in front of everyone at the reception site?

Also, we are debating on hiring a DJ at all. Thinking of going to whole MP3 Player route. My reason is I don't like weddings where practically no one is dancing and the bride and groom are forcing people to dance and it is really ackward and weird . My best friend had 300+ people and it was that way so I am worried that my 75ish people at my wedding would be that way. So I was thinking we could have music and on top of that we could have other things going on and spend the DJ budget on other items. I know a lot of people suggest a Photo Booth but I was thinking of some other things we could do. Do you have any suggestions? I know this place in a city closish to ours has games like pac-man and other things they can bring but that seems expensive. So just looking for some ideas.

Sorry for the long post. Hopefully you ladies can give me some ideas.

Thanks!

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06.09.2012

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