Wedding ceremony and reception in the same room

This venue looks so cool!

I think it's do-able! Is there a large area your guests could go to for cocktail hour while the room is being redone into the reception?

Some of the options will depend on how many guests you have. It looks doable and I’ve seen it done a few different ways:


1.) Have the tables and chairs already set up and guests sit at those while you perform your ceremony on the stage
2.) have the room set up for the ceremony and then have guests go elsewhere for a cocktail hour while the room is being flipped for the reception
3.) Have half of the room set up for the ceremony (separated by pipe and draping) while the other half of the room is set up for the reception. Basically separating the one large room into two separate rooms.

View Quoted Comment There’s no other area everyone could go unless I ask about the down stairs area but that may have its own separate cost package. But I was thinking of maybe setting up some type of divider and in the middle of the room and just have the reception already set up but I just need ideas on how to divide the space in a pretty way. Here’s the back stage where I would like the ceremony to take place it’s a smaller stage more intimate than the bigger stage.
There’s also multiple entrances to this giant room so I can have guest specifically go to the ceremony side first.

View Quoted Comment I think I’m leaning towards option 3 the most so nothing has to be flipped around And redesigned. I just have to find some images of ideas to separate a room nicely.

View Quoted Comment A few inspiration pics (just to give a general idea). I wouldn’t use sheer fabric though.

I’ve been to 2 weddings where the ceremony and reception were in the same room.
Guests sat at their tables during the ceremony.
One wedding had the tables set up so there was an aisle to walk down. The dance floor was where they had the ceremony. I guess someone took down the arch while we took pictures. The other was a little less formal and when it was time everyone just walked up from where ever they were in the room, they didn’t even really have an official “alter” they just picked a spot. That seems like the easiest way to me. If you split the room you’re greatly reducing your space. This would be a concern for me for the reception portion. I guess you could have someone clean up he ceremony area to create a dance floor. But then you have to worry about who’s going to take care of that.

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That seems like it should work! The ideas Sexypoodle gave you for pipe and draping look great!

My new husband and I did the same thing. We had both in the place we met, a community center. We met there at a dance in 1985. It has been really remodeled since then, and it was great

Me with my handsome stepsons Jeff and Robert