We are having our ceremony in a gazebo at a park (out of town). We have about 250 pple attending. We are wanting to have about 20 chairs in the gazebo for immediate family and those who NEED to sit down. The rest we are wanting to stand around the gazebo.
I've been to 2 weddings where they were outdoors and chairs were not provided. Our ceremony will likely be about 10-15 mins long.
Should we be renting chairs??
Re: Do i need to have chairs?
This is something that trix posted in another thread and she sums everything up quite well.
[QUOTE]The manager is wrong. Very, very wrong. Let me tell you why, IMO, he's very, very wrong. You're thinking your timeline. 15 minute ceremony. Here's a guest's timeline:
(I'm a church organist, so I'm probably involved in more weddings than the typical person~just so you know where I get my info.)
Guests begin to arrive 20-30 minutes before your ceremony starts. Then, it's the very, very rare wedding that actually begins on time. Let's be charitable and say yours begins 10 minutes late. Your guests have now been standing for 30-40 minutes, on the beach, in sand, and your wedding hasn't even started yet.
Now add your 15 minute ceremony, and include the time for processional/recessional. Your guests have now been standing for a hour. They now have to stand to leave the ceremony, perhaps wait in the receiving line, get into the reception venue. So it's at least an hour and a quarter that you've made your guests stand. Not good.
Now: let's go into logistics. 100 people, trying to stand to watch a ceremony just doesn't work. Your 5'4" aunt ends up standing behind your FI's 6' frat brother. She sees nothing. Nothing. That happened to me at my niece's wedding. We all stood in a small space for the father/daughter dance. I was behind tall people, and missed the whole thing.
Seating for the elderly? What about people who can't stand. My DD had serious, life-saving surgery this year. Had your wedding been in the 6 weeks after her surgery, she would not have been able to stand. She's 26 years old.
My 89 year old father would never, in a million years, take a chair while a lady was standing. He also couldn't stand for over an hour. Posted by trix1223[/QUOTE]
Please provide chairs for everyone.
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