Hi everyone, I am very new to this website and my fiancee and I are throwing around ideas for our wedding. Due to the fact that we would have almost 300 invitations go out I am nervous about renting a venue for the recpetion, bc we would not want to spend that much on a reception. His family is very involved in their city and there is no way the invitation list can be shortened. Seeing that our priorities are food, drinks, and dancing; we thought using my aunts house as a reception location as an option.
My aunt's house sits on a little over an acre of land and is a plantation style home. There is a pool, and a pool house I thought that caterer's could use. We were thinking of tenting an area for sitting when people eat, and we were thinking of putting a dance floor that will be lit with christmas lights on the perimeter. The DJ would set up on the balcony of the 2nd floor.
Has anyone ever done this before? I think it would be fun, bc we wouldn't have to worry about going home after 3 hours. Our family and our friends are big drinkers and partiers, as are a lot of people who live in the south are. Any inormation on caterer's, party planners, rental companies, etc would be gretly appreciated. If we did a traditional wedding at a venue we would like to keep it under 30K, but I think if we do it this way we could keep it under 15K. This way we would have a good chunk of change saved up to have a down payment on a house.
Thanks ladies, sorry the post is so long!