Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wedding Reception Dilemma! How can we keep everyone happy?
I just read this feed on another site where someone was talking about how rude it was that they attended their niece's wedding reception and they were seated in a separate room from the banquet room. After reading everyone's comments I am very worried now. My wedding is coming up on October 4, and our reception is in a restaurant that is 4 rooms including a banquet room. The rooms are not closed off from eachother, but they wind around to the opposite side of the restaurant from the banquet room. Hindsight is 20/20 and I have never planned a wedding before, so I know now that this is not an ideal location for a guestlist of 400. It was only 200 when we booked the location and then -- in order not to offend anyone, we ended up having to double our guestlist. (I should state for the record that this location was NOT our #1 choice and that we actually didn't make the ultimate final decision but that's a long story for another time and what's done is done.) We are now just trying to make this situation functional and work it out the best we can. We are planning to ign tables to the guests because we want to make sure everyone gets to sit with the people they are most comfortable with. We are also planning to have a station buffet with different stations in the different rooms. We are not having a head table, and we planned on seating us (bride and groom) and our wedding party in the back area of the restaurant where we could be around most of the guests. We are also having a camera set up that will stream a live-feed of the banquet room to the back rooms of the restaurant so those who are seated back there can watch what is going on without having to leave their seats (of course, they are also more than welcome to come into the banquet room at any time -- there will be bistro tables and chairs for anyone who wants to go in there.) The DJ will also be piped through the entire restaurant so everyone can hear what is going on. We also plan to put an itinerary of the reception's events at every seat so everyone knows when and what is happening at any given time. We also plan to go table-to-table and greet everyone and thank them for coming. I really don't want people to consider us rude. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas that might make this work out better for everyone? If anyone has any ideas of what they think might work or how to make this as comfortable as possible for everyone involved, I'd love to hear them.
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