wedding/reception at same time

Welcome to WW, LaKeisha! Many brides have their entire wedding at one location. You can set up your ceremony with tables already out for people to sit at, or most locations can "turn" the space -- set up for the ceremony, hold a cocktail hour outside of the room, usually in hall outside of the room, and set up for the reception.

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If you are not having a separate cocktail hour room, you can have the staff bring trayed appetizers to your guests already seated at the table. Have a pitcher of soda available for those who don't drink. Hopefully your venue has another area for a wedding - a small chapel? A front entrance room where they can put the seating in? A backyard area? Is there a nearby park or parkway you could use for a short, sweet ceremony? There may be a small church or temple in the area - your venue would give you ideas. Otherwise you would have to have your ceremony in the same room, and then have the guests go outside for photos for an hour and then come back in for the sit-down reception. Most venues are comfortable doing this, so do consult with the planner employed at your reception venue.

My wedding and reception are at the same location. The area already has the tables set up for the reception, then during cocktail hour, which is around the corner, they turn the ceremony spot into the dance floor and add our sweetheart table.

Ours is also in the same location, but outdoors. So the tent with tables will already be set up, and the ceremony/chairs will be in a different part of the lawn. Then the caterers will move the chairs during the cocktail hour into the tent. Our guests will be milling about in the lawn while this happens.

We would need more details about the specific type of venue it is, wether it is inside or out etc. to give you a some specific ideas

Two of my cousins had their ceremony in the same hall as the reception. like we were literally sitting at the reception tables during the ceremony. food was set up in the back. when the ceremony was finished, we got our food and then the front was turned into the dance floor. worked out fine.

You can't have the ceremony and reception at the same time, but you can certainly have them in the same space. In fact, it's becoming the new normal. There's nothing out of the ordinary in your plan. Talk to the venue and ask them how they do this (transforming ceremony space into reception space, or having the ceremony in another part of the venue).

I do weddings like this all the time.

My wedding is all one giant event like that. We are setting the tables so there is an aisle down the middle, so people can sit at the tables and watch and then transition immediately reception mode.

Our ceremony and reception will be at the same location. Ceremony is outdoors, cocktail hour indoors while we finish pictures and such outside and then reception indoors. It was WAY cheaper having everything at one venue.

My ceremony and reception are at a hotel. The ceremony is in one side of the ballroom then guest will go out to the atrium for cocktails, the to the other side of the ballroom for the reception

My wedding and reception was at the same place.. It worked out perfectly!!

Our ceremony and reception are in the same place - A bigish old hall. Our ceremony is downstairs and then the reception is upstairs. It is so much easier and cheaper.

I've been to many a wedding where it is in the same room. So use dividers, some leave to go to another room or hallway then go back once it has changed function

My fiance and I are having a church wedding and our reception will be in the parish hall across the parking lot. My sister got married in 2009 and her wedding and reception were at the same place. It was off-season at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock, TX (she and her husband are big baseball fans and have connections with many of the people who work there, so they were able to get a great deal on the facility rental and catering). The reception was in one section of the Heritage Center and the reception was set up in the other two sections (it can be one big room, one small room and one medium room, or three small rooms). I liked that once you got there for the wedding ceremony, you didn't have to go anywhere to get to the reception.

Ours is in the same venue, but different location. I have heard of lots of brides doing this.

Ours are at the same place. The ceremony will either be outside or in this one room, cocktail hour is throughout the property, and then the reception is in the ballroom.

Yup it's possible if the venue allows it. Some of the places I looked at only did ceremonies or wanted an outrageous amount to have the reception there too. I'd just ask the venue.

My brother's wedding was all in one place - people were just seated at the reception tables during the ceremony I stead of in rows.

Our wedding will also be all in one place, and since we're doing a cocktail-style reception (limited seating), people will just "gather 'round" for the quick ceremony.

Yep, it can definitely be done, but how to do it is all up to your venue. I went to a wedding recently where the tables were all set up for the reception and everything, they just held the ceremony in the center. It was actually quite nice, there was no confusion about where to go after the ceremony, you were already there I was also at one where the ceremony was on a patio outside and the reception was in the ballroom inside. It all depends on layout. Good luck!

Ours is outside and if rain would be in same room as reception