We are having a small, non-religious outdoor wedding. Each of us will have one best person -- no others in the wedding party. We are thinking about having friends from the audience (not the best persons) deliver a short, sentimental reading. In terms of logistics, does it make more sense to have the readers stand and deliver their reading from their seats, or for them to come up to the front and face the audience? Is it weird for the readers to stand from their seats? I think that most weddings I've been to in a church have the readers come up and read from the lectern, but this is an outdoor non-religious wedding, and there will not be a formal lectern. Our thought is that the readers can be assigned seats on the aisles, so that they can easily go up the short aisle and stand in front of everyone. Advice!?
Thoughts about logistics?
