Reception Disagreement!

Re: Reception Disagreement!

• Summer2011Bride member

  

  April 2013

  Can you book a venue that has both an outdoor and indoor area where guests can hang out? I think season may also come into play. Will it be pleasant to be outdoors at the time of your wedding?

  
  
  
  
  

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• jessicabessica member

  

  April 2013

  We had an outdoor ceremony, outdoor/indoor cocktail hour, and indoor reception, all at the same venue.  It was great.  Keep in mind that you will need a rain plan for whatever portions of the wedding you plan to have outside.

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• speshlsnowflAkE

  

  April 2013

  You should have the outdoor one. He is the man of the house, and you should defer to him and show him what a good wife you will be! 

  Any fool can make a rule,and any fool will mind it. ~Thoreau

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• krispi921 member

  

  April 2013

  Could you do an outdoor cocktail hour and indoor reception, or vice versa?

  

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• Ella and Pedro member

  

  April 2013

  Our venue has an shade garden with a goldfish pond and a wisteria pergola for the ceremony.  The cocktail hour will be inside (bar, appetizers, i-pod on in there) and outside (mingling, walking, talking, cocktail standing tables, a few chairs, live music (hammered dulcimer player who does ceremony will stay till dinner), and an area off to the side for smokers.  Dinner wil be in the ballroom, and by now the sun will have set.
  
  For what it's worth, I went to a wedding two years ago in a tent/outside, and I had to leave half-way through dinner to sit in the car and wait for my family to join me, because of my severe mosquito allergies.

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• mandibride2be member

  

  April 2013

  You can find a venue that has an outside porch attached to a ballroom - perhaps dinner outside dancing outside or vice versa. You can even rent couches and create a lounge outside where people can go to.

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  How about outside with an enclosed tent ?

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• ashleyep member

  

  April 2013

  I know some places will have a tent outside for dinner with drinks and dancing inside? That could possibly work, but you also run into a problem if there's not enough seating inside for everyone. People will stay outside in the tent to chat and it can mess up the dancing inside.

  

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  April 2013

  Does he know why you want an indoor reception and vice versa? Sometimes I get so caught up in my vision or idea that I forget about some of the problems that could come with it or don't see good in other ideas. If you say to him, I'd like an indoor reception because_____ or he can tell you the good points about having it outside, maybe it will be easier to find that compromise because you'll both have things important to you.
  My wedding was ALWAYS going to be on a Saturday, late morning but now our wedding will be on a Friday evening and I hate to say, I liked that idea better after I heard the reasons behind it. Plus, only about 3 things are important to him to have at the wedding, so I figured he should have them.
  Sorry for the impromptu counseling. And for not really answering. You can stalk my posts and respond with something completely insane and I promise not to get mad.

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• CassidyWess

  

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  Thanks everyone! Your replies have helped me work with my fiance' in coming to a conclusion that makes us both happy.

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