has anyone been to a wedding where there was not enough seating for all of the guests at cocktail hour? i'm not talking a MAJOR deficiency.. say, ~150 seats for ~200 people. at the RH's you all have booked, is there enough cocktail hour seating for EVERY guest?
if you can't guess, the place i'm looking at doesn't have enough seating for everyone. they throw events with a guestlist twice my size regularly, so it CAN'T be a huge problem.. right?? it's still making me nervous.
green_tea
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Posted by carly
My cocktail hour is enought seating for everyitng :) but i dont think that its a HUGE deal because people walk around, talk and mingle :) im sure you are having stations around the room right? people will mingle and eat by the stations?
are you having an indoor and outdoor cocktail hour or just indoor? if both, more of a non worry because you have more space to mingle in :)
itll be fine, theyll sit through dinner :)
yes there will be stations! i'm hoping for the last sunday of march (just 5 days into spring), so it would have to be a pretty freakish weather occurrence to be able to have it half outside, haha... but even if i was in the summer i wouldn't count on the outside seating since it can always rain. cross your fingers that it's 80 degress and sunny... come on global warming!!
5272012
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of course..we are ALL going to have a sunny and 80 degree weather wedding ha :)
Notwedyet08
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I think you'll be ok.
Usually during the cocktail hour we walk around; mingle; if we need to sit to eat we do; but we don't spend the entire our seated so when we get up someone else can use our table.
Elana
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FH's cousin actually rented additional chairs for her cocktail hour because she wanted to make sure everyone had a place to sit, particularly the older people.
chipperbride
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I'm sure you'll be fine, plenty of people like to mingle and just roam around. FH and I rarely ever sit during the cocktail hour.
I was at a recent wedding though where the cocktail hour was so packed you couldn't even walk around. We only got to try one station of food, and we couldn't get to the bar to have a drink.
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Posted by JuneBride14
i wouldn't worry.. a lot of people like to stand and chat or mingle... i think it is rare that everyone wants to be seated at the same time during cocktail hour... i wouldn't let this deter you from booking a RH that you love
I agree. I hardly ever sit at a CH. The only time I sit is if I am eating something that requires me to cut, otherwise I hold the plate in my one hand and eat with the other and mingle.
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Posted by Chanwich
I recently was at a wedding where there were 5 tiny cocktail tables for like 175 people. It annoyed me because having a drink in one hand, food in the other, a purse in my armpit and high heels on, all I wanted to do was sit
same here ... i hate when i go to CH and can't sit.
that said, i think 150 seats for 200 guests is enough since, as others have mentioned, many people stand and mingle.
