I know this is going to be a long post, and I do apologize in advance.
This past Thursday I had a second meeting with our venue event coordinator who will be in charge of our wedding. The meeting was because I had come up with additional questions to ask her and because I have not been to the venue since we booked in at the end of May/early June. Originally on our first meeting when my FH and I toured the venue, we noticed the event space for the reception was broken up into 3 sections with large dividers; making each room a smaller ballroom. After touring the venue and sitting down with the coordinator we decided to have the ceremony out on the veranda and have our reception in 2 of the 3 sections of the ballroom b/c that would best accommodate our 150 guests. At the time we were told the other 1/3 of the ballroom would be ours to use for storage for our decoration boxes (we are doing our own decorating), or if the weather is bad the day of our wedding so we can move our ceremony from the veranda to the other section of the ballroom and still have the 2/3's set up for the reception. When I went in on Thursday she told me that option was no longer available but gave me another backup plan. She told me that she recently did a wedding where the couple could not get married outside b/c of the weather and had their ceremony in the reception space. This couple had the same number of people as my FH and I plan on having at the wedding and she showed me photos of it. It did look beautiful but it threw me off a little bit that all of their guests were sitting in their reception seats with empty plates in front of them in all of the photos from their ceremony.
I'm not sure if I just could not wrap my head around it, or if that is a different way to have a ceremony that I haven't personally seen before. I know this would only be my FH and I's backup plan if it's too cold on the day of or if it rains. Am I looking too much into it, or should I fight for the other 1/3 ballroom we were told we could use in case of bad weather originally?
Side Note: I just want to note that my coordinator at our venue was very sweet about it and has been great since day one, and she tried to talk it up to me more and help me envision it b/c I know she saw the look on my face when she said it, and I was not thrilled with the idea.
