Moving the wedding indoors?

jilybeans4 · August 2009

I've been itching to check the 10 day forecast for my outdoor wedding, and today finally we were able to see it! We are getting married on Sunday, Sept 6th...and it starts raining Thursday and rains for 4 days straight. I know the forecast is always off this far in advance, but reality has hit suddenly that I may not be having an outdoor wedding. Further complicated by the fact that FI has recently expressed that if the temp is above 80 degrees (highly likely in the midwest on Sept 6th) he is going to be too hot and thinks the wedding should be inside. Did any of you move your wedding indoors due to weather? Please tell me it was no big deal? Personally, our backup location is the hotel where we are having the reception. Convenient? Yes. Lame and boring?Very. I am NOT excited about this idea at all. Its making me stress/sad. Sad because I don't want to get married there, and stressed because it suddenly occurred to me that we have no backup decor plans and so its not only going to be in a stupid place, but it will also be ugly.

aerinpegadrak · August 2009

That sucks that you may have to move it. I'd start thinking decor, and fast. I've been doing some reading on decorating, and the consensus seems to be go big or go home. A big, eye-catching backdrop for you and your FI should draw attention away from the rest of the lame and boring room. Even just a lit arch that you pick up at Michaels would probably help.Good luck! It might not even rain that day, you never know. And if it does, you can pick up some cute umbrellas for your WP and take some fun pictures in the rain! I'm always jealous of those, they look so adorable.

shanwalk2 · August 2009

we decided to move ours in at about midnight the night before the wedding. it was too cold that day. i was sad for a few minutes. then i remembered that i picked our location because i liked both the indoor and outdoor options and although i would have preferred outdoor - our ceremony was beautfiul and it didn't matter what the background was. looking back, i'm so glad we did it inside. it was very intimate and i can't imagine it otherwise now. it will be fine either way. that weather website will drive you insane. don't keep checking it.

blackfire5th · August 2009

Ask your florist about cadelabras with sprays. You could have a couple of them (they are pricey, we paid $60 each) but they make a big statement without any effort from you. You never know about the rain, maybe it will only rain part of the day and you can still have an outdoor wedding, or it might break for a little bit so that you two can run outside at some point and get some outdoor photos!

blackfire5th · August 2009

P.S. We had our reception outside (it was a covered area and could have the sides closed with big shades). It was suppose to be rainy all day, but instead was a bright beautiful day with a gentel cool breeze. It was perfect and the only non-rainy weekend the entire summer at our location! I even forgot to check the weather will everything going on and I figured whatever happened would happen, but I would still have a great day and when I look at pictures, I usually only think about the joy I felt that day and barely notice the background.

ootmother2 · August 2009

well, I'm 1/8 Iroquois, want me to do an anti rain dance?I'm a little new to this but I could always give it a try

jilybeans4 · August 2009

oot, sounds great : ) Thanks for the advice ladies. Shan, I'm glad to hear that sometimes it works out for the best. Forecast today still says it is going to be beautiful all week, except the entire weekend of my wedding. Guess our backyard rehearsal dinner will need to be rethought too.

denimdarling88 · August 2009

As another kind of backdrop idea... I had a friend who couldn't afford to do a ton of decorating when she got married, but we were all shocked to see this gorgeous back-lit white backdrop behind the "altar" for lack of a better word. They took white sheets or some other white sheer fabric, draped them over some icky metal coat racks that the venue just happened to have, and added some net lighting for the soft light effect.

denimdarling88 · August 2009

Oh wow, not awake yet. I should probably mention that the coat racks didn't show at all [especially since they were icky] because they had done three of them like that, and made sure to wrap around the outside edges with the fabric, as well.

aerinpegadrak · August 2009

I was actually going to suggest the backlit sheets, too. They're simple, cheap, and look absolutely stunning.Just don't do a bunch of little decor details, or it will look cluttered and people won't notice anyway. That's what they mean by go big or go home.

katiewhompus · August 2009

Put down the 10 day forecast or it will drive you crazy! My 10 days said rain all week, then at 8 days it was going to be sunny all week, then at 5 days rainy, etc.The actual day it rained for the 30 minutes of ceremony time so we had to move it indoors. It ended up being completely great (except poor dh was the only one who saw me for about 20 feet of walking so no one understood why he started crying randomly) and everyone commented how much they loved the porch wedding. Then the sun came back and we got pictures.

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