I am getting married at a beach house in August on the coast in RI. We rented the house hoping to have 100 guests, use the deck as half dance floor, half tables with seating for 80 of the 100 guests, laid back no seating chart, stations for food vibe. Well we started made our guest list which was non-negotiable and we now have roughly 140 guests we think will be attending, invites already sent so no take-backs. Now we dont really have the room for enough tables, I dont like the ratio of 80 seats to 140 guests. The ideas we had were to potentially use the whole deck for tables which would allow for 24-32 more seats and set up the food stations on the opposite side of the house in the parking lot.
To give you a visual you pull up to the house and the parking lot would have teh trailer bathrooms, and stations of food, card and favor tables, etc. Then you come up a set of stairs onto the deck which has the tables to sit and eat at, half of which will be removed to allow for dancing after eating. Then there are a few picnic tables (classy ones) on the sand beside the firepit and the ocean obviously beyond that.
What I need help with is suggestions on how to glam up the parking lot to make it not look so unclassy, descriptions on how to since I suck at DIY along with pictures if possible.. and if anyone has any other ideas on how to pull off an extra 40 guests in a not so huge space pass them on please!
