Maybe you ladies can help me. I am in a venue bust right now. I really want to bring in our own ethnic caterers as well as BYO booze. Many of the locations I like are either all included and the ones that allow me to BYO have some issue. One high contender on my venue list is a community church that rents out to weddings on weekends.
it seems like everything I want in a ceremony and reception space. Not to mention VERY reasonable price.
The only issue is that FI is not very religious nor am I, and both of our families are a mix of religions and cultures. As we are incorporating a lot of our cultures in the reception, the ceremeony will take place in a church and that seems weird. We are also allowed to bring in our own officiant so the ceremony itself is not religious and the church was first built as non-denominations then recently turned into a christian church. Do you think guests will find that strange that we are having it in a church since many know that we are not practicing religion? or do you think that we are kind of faking it? Maybe I am just looking into it too much. Traditional Sri lankan weddings are in a church but I don't know, many people know our family as not religious.
Has anyone been to or had their wedding in a church but they aren ot practicing any form of religion?