In our case the bride is from California and all the important people in her life are there and the groom is from Virginia and all the important people in his life are on the east coast.
Each of them has people who are either not physically able or not financially able to travel to the opposite coast for the wedding. This is causing much stress in trying to decide where to hold the wedding. No matter the decision either the Bride or the Groom is going to be very disappointed due to someone very important to them being excluded. Any ideas?
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Re: [dpittmanca] Where to hold the wedding
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Weddings are typically held where the bride lives or where the host of the wedding (parents) lives. Unfortunately they will have to make a choice to have the wedding where the most (and most important) guests can attend.
Perhaps the wedding and reception can be videotaped or even fed live to the guests who cannot attend.
You can consider three options:
1) Have wedding video taped and edited to video dvd and send to friends and family who could not attend;
2) Have weddng in rented facility that has teleconferencing capability such as resort, university, county clerk office. That way family members can attend in REAL TIME and view the wedding as it is happening. Top Wedding Questions Forum Moderator - "Write your sorrows in the sand, your blessings in stone".
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Dear Where to Hold,
Great ideas from the Wedding Queen as usual.
Here's another idea: You could have what is called a "Moveable Wedding". It begins with you marrying in your home town, which includes your first reception with those near and dear to you. Then you would have other wedding celebrations, which would include other family and friends in their home towns beginning with the bride's parents. Basically, you would be having multiple receptions.
The celebrations could be as elaborate as a formal reception with you wearing your gown and a sit down meal to a barbecue in your uncle's back yard. If you have to travel to more than two places to share the celebration, these should be smaller and less formal--usually an open house or cocktail party.
This would take some time that most of us do not have, so you do not have to make all of those trips immediately. You could celebrate with the bride's relatives directly after the wedding and others a bit later.
Video taping the celebration is a great idea too. This way you could show the wedding during the receptions.
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