My sister called me this morning with a great idea for an article for today’s post. You see, a few days before Christmas a friend of hers got married, and my sister was the maid of honor in the ceremony. As she was telling me the story about what happened, I realized that this could be a mistake that many brides make while they are planning their wedding reception, and thought it would be a great piece of advice for brides. With so many things to remember while doing your wedding planning, it is easy to make a mistake, leave something out, or make some kind of assumption that you really shouldn’t be making. Such is the case with my sister’s friend. Let me explain the situation before I go on any further.
My sister’s friend got engaged about a year ago, and planned her wedding to be just a few days before Christmas. They planned a large wedding, with over 400 people on the guest list. They wanted to have a large wedding, and yet still have a wedding on a budget. Now, in the small Texas town where we live, there are only one or two places around that will hold that many people, and neither one of them is a church. But that isn’t the main problem that my friend faced, which was the wedding reception.
The mistake that my sister’s friend made was in her wedding reception. With a guest list of over 400 people, she rented a reception hall that would hold the number of people she needed, and had the trays of food for a Snack Wedding Reception, and then she made her major mistake. She only provided three tables and a total of eighteen chairs for people to sit down, assuming that everyone would want to stand or walk around and mingle. Big mistake. From my observation, you will have people who want to stand up and mingle, but a majority will want to sit down to talk and watch the festivities. Not only that, but add plates of food, and people will really want to sit down instead of having to balance a plate of food and glass of punch. In the end, her guests really only stayed about thirty minutes at the wedding reception, with many leaving before the bride and groom made their departure.
When planning your wedding reception that you want to last awhile, then be sure that you have enough chairs for everyone, and if not, then at least some taller tables placed around the room for your guests to stand around and be able to rest their plates of food. Don’t let this wedding reception mistake happen to you.
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