Question by : Need Wedding Reception Suggestions/Ideas?
In looking for a Venue for our reception, the cheapest place I found was going to cost us a total of ,000. This included catering, alcohol, tables/chairs, linens, the venue price and tax and gratuity.
Trying to be creative and cut cost, I came up with the idea to have our reception in a restaurant. I found a really fancy restaurant that is decorated elaborately and willing to rent the entire place out to us for the day/night. This was only going to cost us ,000 and that is rounding up quite a bit. So overall we were saving at least ,000 by having it in a restaurant.
My Dilemma- This particular restaurant, although decorated beautifully, uses the colors red, gold and burnt orange as their color scheme. Their chairs are very nice, but they are a bronzed looking wooden finish with red cushions. and The main focus of attention is on three booths that are red with a red wall background and sheilded with golden curtains.
The middle booth is removed serving as an entrance to a second room where there is a bar area and more tables. We are having somewhere between 100-150 guests and the one room is not large enough to accomodate them all. This is all fine, however our colors are white, navy blue and yellow and I am worried that the decoration may take away from our color scheme and I am not sure what to do about the red booths. Also, the restaurant only has whit and black linens.
Originally I planned on having navy blue table covers, white chair covers, of course white china with a navy blue napkin. I am pulling the yellow out in my centerpieces with vases filled with lemons and spring of forsythia. Now, I may end up having to do white linens and buying or renting a navy blue overlay, which I guess is fine and also renting navy blue napkins or just going with the white ones and providing a navy blue menu instead to pull out the blue.
Also, I’m not sure what to do about the guest/seating. I was thinking of putting the older guest and guest who I know will leave early in the room that is more secluded and further away from the band and then having our table in the room with the band and dancing, etc. However, I don’t want anyone to feel left out and I also don’t know how that would work for the cake cutting and all of the other little rituals that you do at a reception because I don’t think they will be able to see us.
The napkins, overlays and chair covers will probably cost an extra 0 at most and I guess is still better than the extra ,000 we would pay at the other venue but I am just so unsure about the other stuff. What do you all think, I need opinions
Best answer:
Answer by krissylyn
I think I wouldn’t give another moment’s thought to the color scheme and just work with that of the restaurants. Navy can cetainly tie in with red and burnt orange and gold is awfully close to yellow.
I think I certainly would not spend , much less 0 on different colored napkins, overlays, menus and chair covers. No one will notice navy napkins and chair covers are a hazard.
As far as the seating goes – I would think that I would seat those I knew were leaving first closest to the door – I would also make sure that when things like the cake cutting are going on, people knew about it, so if they wanted to see they could get up and walk to where it’s happening, if their table was in the next room.
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