ceremony and reception together, need help!

Is cocktail hour also in the same room? And is it big enough to have a separate area?

Assuming it's all in on spot you can have the guests sitting at their tables for the ceremony. You could also push the tables to the side of the room and set up the chairs into an aisle, and just move it around after the ceremony. I don't think that would take too long!

I've been to a wedding that the seating for ceremony was at the reception tables. Not as fancy but it doesn't get any simpler

Everything is all in the same room, and it is not large enough to separate it. the bad part about moving tables is that our centerpieces are fire based, we have a lantern and 3 candles on each table. and also for the cocktail hour we are having a smores bar which is also a huge obstacle to move around. thats why im not too sure. i didnt think it would be a big deal to just switch over, but usually for the cocktail hour the bride and groom arent there, and we will be....also another confusion...

Can you just eat dinner instead of doing cocktail hour and then do s'mores for dessert?

I photographed a wedding recently that had the guests seated at their tables for the reception during the ceremony. It was different but worked out really well !

At our venue, we are supposed to get married outside, but in case of rain, there's only one room. What they do is set up some chairs on the dance floor so that it mirrors a typical ceremony set up but have some people seated at the tables around the perimeter of the room. You could probably push tables to accommodate this type of set up, but I wouldn't want to set up tables during the cocktail hour. That's just too much to expect during that time.

We are doing our wedding and reception in the same room. its a very large venue and even though there is extra space to do the isle and tables we prefer to do just the table seating like a "dinner and a show" kinda thing with the isle markers tied with ribbons to mark off our lil path once the ceremony is over the isle markers will be moved to form a circular pattern to part off the center of the room for dancing.

the pics below are of my venue and the items i will be using. **girl featured isn't me, its our family friend**