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Re: Have you ever been to an evening wedding reception without dancing?
I had an early evening reception with no dancing. I'm talking 5pm-8pm. The place I booked didn't allow dancing, I don't like to dance and most importantly, I wanted to get out of there asap with my new husband. It was the official end of our 1 year, 2 months long distance relationship and we were equally excited to finally not share each other with other people.
I go to wedding receptions to chat with friends and/or family so I'd stay until it was over unless I had to travel back home that night.
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I've been to a lot of weddings without dancing, some of them in the evening. I still normally stay until the bitter end, but normally that's within 3 hours of the beginning of the ceremony. To each their own, I guess, but yeah, I'm still disappointed when there isn't dancing.
If money is the issue, do an iPod playlist. It'll be better than a disappointing band or DJ anyway. I seriously regret not doing this at my wedding actually. A friend of my dad's was the DJ, and while I liked what te same guy did for my sister's wedding, he did a horrible job with mine. A playlist would have been so much better.
I feel like I'm in a race to get the September date that we want. I think we may have found the venue/food we want to go with, but tonight we are talking with the pastor to see if he has the day open that we want.
I'm just afraid we won't get it all coordinated! David's Bridal already told me I'm way behind in ordering my dress and that there's a chance I'll end up getting it last minute (I will probably order it this week). That's stressing me out too!
I'm a worrier and stress easily.
She told me last week that they recommend ordering your dress 12-18 mos prior to the wedding! The one I want isn't available online, I believe it's in-store only. There aren't any other ones close. I think maybe they just tell people that to be sure in case something is wrong with the dress, but it's still stressing me out.
Once we have the venue and pastor booked, I will feel better about it. We are already over budget on the venue/food/alcohol. <sigh>.
12-18 months prior to the wedding??? biiiiitch be crazy. Don't let that drive you nuts. Many people don't even know for sure they're getting married a full year and a half before their wedding, and they get their David's Bridal dresses no problem.
Anyway, I've been in the MOH at a Church Of Christ wedding. No booze, no dancing. Most people stayed until the end. However, the length of the reception was cut down much shorter. They didn't spend an extra 4 hours hanging out with cake and punch. My BFF was smart like that. It was dinner and about 2 hours of mingling time. She also had it at the Texas State Aquarium, so there was plenty to look around at, and cocktail tables set up in the coziest little spots where you could check out the exhibits and chat.
Including ourselves, we have 69 people (that includes about 10 kids). Just our family, and FI asked one of his good friends and his wife.
The place we looked at last night is a room at a country club with an adjoining Italian restaurant (with very good food!). They will take special requests on food (within reason) if we can provide them with a recipe! While I like Italian food, I don't want every option to be Italian so I was happy to hear that. They will bring in any specialty wine/beer that we want if they do not already carry it and can get it wholesale. We have a special local wine that we want served at the tables during dinner, so hopefully they can get it!
I sooo didn't want to do the typical country club wedding, but here we are! LOL The price and everything it includes can't be beat over renting a place and catering in food from another location. It will be less stressful too because they do all of the set-up/take down for the ceremony and reception and I don't have to coordinate a caterer with the venue. The colors they have available for linens and china are probably what I would have picked anyway, so it all works and I don't have to pay extra for it.