Hey guys,
(This is my 1st post, so I apologize if this has been touch upon before)
We need some advice on this asap!
My FH and I fell in love with a raw space (The Foundry) and would love to hold both the ceremony and reception here.
Our problem is we want April 5th, 2014. He's Greek Orthodox, I'm Catholic. Neither of us are religious but his parents insist we marry in a Greek church (doesn't really matter to me). Our 1st issue is that we cannot marry in a church during Lent. 2014 Lent begins March 5th - April 20th. Now while we don't really want to change our wedding date, we can either do the ceremony at the church then have the reception at The Foundry all on the same day if we move our date. We unfortunately don't see the point in that if we're paying to rent the space for 12 hours and only using it for 4 hours.
We've suggested to his parents that we do a casual, intimate church ceremony before lent, then another ceremony followed by the reception on the date that we want.
1. What do you call the 2nd ceremony if we're already married? The priests agreed to come and give a blessing but we also want the whole walking down the aisle in our wedding attire with a flower girl and everything. What exactly would the priests be doing?
2. Does anyone have any other suggestions to make use of our full time at this space?
We can also push the date but prices will go up and we would also need to rent limos where as if we do the intimate ceremony or the ceremony at the venue, we won't really need that since we have a fairly small party.
Any advise please!