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Turning ceremony into reception in the same room

pirategirl77pirategirl77
in Florida-North Florida

The old St. Andrews church in downtown Jax is the venue for our wedding. We're doing the reception there as well, but I'm now fr eaking about about how to do that. I've heard of using the same room for the wedding and reception, but the thought of bringing that idea to fruition for our wedding is starting to overwhelm me.   I'm open to feedback on how to make this cost effective wedding/reception work for us.

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Re: Turning ceremony into reception in the same room

  • jagore08jagore08 member
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    edited December 2011
    Are you doing a cocktail hour?  Are you having a DOC?  These are the only two ways I can actually see this happening smoothly.
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  • KappaUCF20KappaUCF20
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    edited December 2011
    People do this all the time, but I don't know much about Old St. Andrews or how it could work there.  My best friend's mother got married at a Disney resort so they could only afford to rent one room there.  They set up all the round tables with the centerpieces and everything so it was already prepared for the reception, but they created a little aisle between the tables.  She and her DH said their vows on the dance floor at the end of the "aisle" (they also set up a little arch so it looked more like a ceremony, then took it down afterwards when it was party time).  Can you do something similar at St. Andrews?  If the tables were already set up for the reception, you wouldn't necessarily have to worry about having a cocktail hour or coordinator.
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  • prncszprncsz member
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    edited December 2011
    I've seen this done two ways. One way was for the ceremony all of the banquet chairs were setup to create an aisle. Guests sat there during the ceremony and once it was over we all got up to get cocktails all in the same area we just moved out of the way so the staff could setup the banquet tables. They did this rather quickly and I don't recall wondering about them.

    The second way was all of the tables were setup and when we arrived we sat at the tables. There was a stage and that's where the ceremony took place on the stage. When the ceremony was over the bridal party took pictures on the stage and then the reception began. The dj played music during that time and we had cocktails.
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