Ceremony and Reception in same room no flip, how'd you do it?

I recently went to a wedding like this and it was absolutely beautiful. They setup the tables on each side, the middle was the aisle. They did it due to weather and it having to be moved inside. But honestly it was very nice!!

View Quoted Comment Thank you! That sounds like a pretty nice idea, I guess I didnt want a cluster. Lol

View Quoted Comment It definitely didn’t feel clustered at all! If anything as a guest it was more comfortable.

I went to a wedding like this and it was fine! There were round tables and everyone just sat at them during the ceremony. People who’s backs would’ve been to the altar (myself included) just turned our chairs around for the ceremony. Not “ideal”, but literally no big deal at all!

We are thinking about doing this at our venue. We can use the outside space but I️ was thinking of using the indoor for both ceremony and reception. And using the outside for the cocktail hour while we flip the room. I’m just nervous flipping a space will be too overwhelming and maybe not have enough time. But we will see. I’m still trying to think it all through. Didn’t know others were in the same boat.

I'll be doing this at my wedding. Our venue is just one big room so they have to be in the same room. It's big enough though that the ceremony will be on the left side of the room and the tables for reception will be already set up on the right side. They will set up rows of chairs for the ceremony then move them to the tables for the reception and the ceremony area will become the dance floor. Honestly, it was one of my concerns with the venue because I'm worried it won't look good but they've done it before so I trust they know what they're doing. And the pictures I've seen of it look nice. In the end I think it'll be fine and I'm really excited to see it all set up. I'm also having a smaller wedding, less than 100, so I think that will help it not look too cluttered as well.

Mine will be in the same room with no flip. From the pictures I've seen it looks really well done. They do put different chairs on the dance floor in front of the stage so that they are not sitting at the tables until dinner, but they will be able to see them when they come in. Our cocktail hour will also be in the same room, but there will be smaller cocktail tables on the other side of the room from the dinner tables.

Another option would be to use draping to sort of separate the space.

Ours is in one room, its a "L" shape so we are doing the ceremony on the dance floor and having most of the tables on the opposite part of the room.

I didn't have a wedding like this but this idea was my backup plan if the weather was bad and my husband and I couldn't have our ceremony outside. The plan for if we had to move the ceremony indoors was to have all of our guests sit at their reception seats during the ceremony. After the ceremony is over, the bridal party was to exit with immediate family and then we would go take the remainder of our photos that we did not take before the ceremony. If you did something like that, while you are your spouse are taking photos, the cocktail hour could begin in the reception hall (unless you have another space for that). From there, the reception can begin as normal with bridal party introductions, first dance and so on.

It is doable and my venue coordinator showed me photos of another bride who had to do the same thing b/c of weather. I wasn't thrilled with the idea of that being my backup plan, but once I saw the photos I was okay with the idea of doing that if our weather did not hold up.

We are also having ceremony and reception in same area. I'm trying to vision how this will work too, the Venue's team should be able to help. I'm wondering if ushers are needed in this setting.

I've seen lots of pictures like this where guests are seated at the tables (usually round) and chairs are simply turned to face where the couple will be. To enter, you can walk through the tables or along the wall to get to the altar area.

If the weather is bad, this will be me, but I’m hoping for great weather for outdoor ceremony. A dear friend of mine was remarried a few years ago on January first, and this was what they did. All in same room, no flip. I will say that for the amount of guests they had, only immediate family had “ceremony seating”, the rest of us sat at the long rectangle tables setup for the reception. It was still beautiful, but different. I guess I just felt like that particular center wasn’t really big enough to get any sort of separation from the ceremony and reception. Honestly, it was the 3rd wedding I’ve been to there and I felt like it was crowded when it was just used for a reception.