So we have been approved for our venue (OMG YAY) which is at my mother's neighborhood clubhouse in Vegas. It is beautiful and we have both the entertainment room (indoors) and the patio BBQ area which is outdoors. One level. There are 66 total on our guest list if they all use their plus ones and their spouses come. (I have not sent out any Save the Dates or Invitations. Wedding 4/3/21)
Situation #1 : Entertainment room is only allowed to have 50 people in it at one time. The patio BBQ area does not have the same limit and has seating as well. Would if be weird to use both spaces as the reception and let guests know that there are only 50 people allowed in the entertainment room at the time? I was thinking of spacing out the seating because of this! Having 33 or so seated in the entertainment room and 33 in the patio BBQ area seating. The space does already have seating and chairs so that would save us so much money. Decorations will really transform the spaces.
Situation #2: The patio BBQ area is alcohol forbidden while in the entertainment room it is allowed. We were already going to inform guests that they couldn't bring alcohol outside but how do I handle it now that some may be seated outside and some inside? Is it possible to effectively rotate people? I feel like this could happen naturally since some do not drink.
Venue is only costing us $75/hr(A DREAM). We walked in there and knew it was going to be the place we were going to get married. I was thinking that instead of us just having ONE "sweet heart" table we could make a space for us outside AND inside. Also thinking of having a DJ inside and having playlist outside. Also having multiple food stations for both the inside and outside. It has wall to ceiling windows so people inside can see outside people and vice versa. So much light. Toasts/games will happen outside so everyone is involved.
The more I think about it the more I want to do the half in half out to invite everyone I wanted. But if I don't do it my list will go back down to 50 and I will take off some plus ones and not invite a few couples. *insert crying emoji*
Thanks for reading all of this! Looking forward to your feedback.
(Ceremony will be in the same space. In this scenario it would be outside so everyone is included.)
