Some Ideas on where to have the Ceremony & Rehearsal for a small wedding

Posted on April 5, 2008 in Arranged Marriage, Marriage Advice

Consider Different Places

The standard answer with regard to the question where to have the ceremony and the reception for a smaller wedding is a church or synagogue, followed by a banquet hall reception. But those settings may be too large for a smaller gathering and you’d look and feel lost in such a large venue. Commercial reception venues, such as hotels, will not agree to host receptions small receptions. So what can be done?

Yet, smaller weddings have been successfully conducted in restaurants, gardens, historic inns, wedding chapels, meditation chapels, museums, historic homes, and on trains and boats. So you have ample scope to experiment.

A note about at-home weddings & receptions

One note: A small wedding may make it easy for you to consider having the wedding, the reception, or both in your own or a relative’s home. This is wonderfully intimate, but other locales have the chairs, tables, and other trappings you need for a gathering. Your private home doesn’t. Depending on the size of your wedding, you may need to rent chairs, tables, tablecloths, port-a-johns, dinnerware, and other items. This may add up more quickly than anticipated.

Getting away altogether to the “destination” wedding

If your wedding is small enough, you might consider making your wedding one special part of a mini-vacation for you and your guests. It isn’t feasible for a large number of people to join you at a vacation spot, but a small number may be willing and able to particularly if you make the destination someplace that people would love to go to anyway.

You can honeymoon at the same spot after your guests depart, or move on to yet another place.

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