Olde Gahanna Sanctuary for BOTH?

Re: Olde Gahanna Sanctuary for BOTH?

• lnm130

  

  December 2011

  I was going to use the site, but decided not to. What I was going to do was have the ceremony in the big room (there is a curtain that comes down to divide the room in half), a cocktail hour in the smaller room, and have the larer reception room flipped once the curtain is up.It can pretty easily be done for 80 people, as I was looking at having 160 in the space.
  
  So basically, I would have both ceremony and reception in the same room.Have you gone to see the space?

  

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• tiffanydaniels

  

  December 2011

  I think it is a nice space, we decided it was not for us, but you could definitely do both there, if you wanted you could do the ceremony in the smaller room and move the reception to the large room, there is so much room to work with there you could easily do it! 

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• MrsColeman2012

  

  December 2011

  I actually haven't seen it in person yet but I live five mins away from it and I have seen all the pictures on the website. I am wanting to plan everything myself, I want to bring in my own liquor and caterer, and I am on a fairly tight budget so this place just seems PERFECT! Plus I like the fact that it has the appearance of a church with all the stained glass and whatnot. It is just to perfect and convenient and I fell in love with it right away!

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• lnm130

  

  December 2011

  Definitely go see it and talk to the managers. VERY helpful.
  
  For a wedding size of 80, you could keep everything in that larger room pretty comfortably. That way, there is already a dance floor once the room is flipped. The other smaller room just seems too long and narrow for a reception to me.
  
  But then again, when I was looking, I was thinking 160 people!

  

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• kdaywedding

  

  December 2011

  My friend had her wedding here and did exactly what lnm said with having both the ceremony and the reception in the big room. She used the curtain to divide the room in half and had had all of the tables set up on the other side of the curtain. When the ceremony was over the people exited the main doors of the church and then walked around to the alternate side door into the smaller room where there was cocktail hour. The bar has two windows so people could get drinks in that room too. Once the bridal party and a few family members had pulled the curtain away and moved all fo the tables into their appropriate spots, the guests were invited back into the big room for the reception. It worked our perfectly. All in all this is a very low key, easy to work with vendor.

  

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• MrsColeman2012

  

  December 2011

  I am a little worried about moving the tables with all the centerpieces and whatnot....is it possible that for a wedding as small as 80 that I could have the ceremony on one side and the reception on the other WITHOUT moving stuff in between? Like is the other side of the curtain big enough for the ceremony?

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• kdaywedding

  

  December 2011

  Hmm.. not sure that would work. Don't think it's big enough to do that. You could always have your ceremony at a nearby park. It really wasn't that bad to move tables. Most of the tables could stay exactly where they were on the one side and we only moved about 10 tables into their right place on the other side. the chairs used for the ceremony had to be put around some of the tables too. That being said.. it just depends if you want to put your bridal party to work. I will say that i was disappointed that we didn't get to go to cocktail hour at all because of it.

  

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• kdaywedding

  

  December 2011

  
  
   here's a picture of the non ceremony side. you can see the curtain up at the top of the picture. Unfortanately I didn't have a good one of the other side that didn't have a bunch of people in it.

  

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